[Building Sakai] Sakai & The Higher Ed Opportunity Act of 2008

[Luke Fernandez]

Robert,

One thing that caters to this is building into your assessment tools
features that facilitate proctoring. When tests are delivered through
proctors the student's identity can be verified.  Some of these
proctoring features include:

-Features that allow a campus proctor administrator to track and
authorize a network of remote proctors.
-Features that allow remote students to find these proctors through
the testing interface and to request that test passwords be made
available to these proctors.
-Features that deliver student-test-and-proctor specific test
passwords to the proctor so that the main test password never has to
be disseminated.
-Features that allow a proctor to certify test attempts.
-Features that allow faculty and proctor administrators to track
certifications.

I added some of these requirements to JIRA back in 2005 (cf.
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-1905 )....but AFAIK there
aren't active initiatives to code these yet.

Here's some short (somewhat outdated tutorials) that allude to some of
the above features in our homegrown system:

https://chitester.weber.edu/misc/docs/newVersion/ProctorTests/ProctorTests.html
https://chitester.weber.edu/misc/docs/newVersion/TestReservation/TestReservation.html


Cheers,

Luke

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Robert E. Long, MA
<relong at vmaile.svsu.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> We at Saginaw Valley State University are looking into the technical
> requirements for the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) and wonder what
> other institutions are doing to ensure that they are fully compliant as it
> pertains to online and distance education courses?
>
> The following quote:
>
> "The Senate amendment and the House bill require accrediting agencies to
> require that institutions of higher education offering distance education
> programs have a process by which the institution of higher education
> establishes that a student registered for a distance education course is the
> same student that participates in, completes, and receives credit for the
> course."
>
> Are you doing anything special other than the standard username / password
> for logging in to an online course? If so, could you point me to any
> software or other tools that you may use for this? Also, any examples would
> be appreciated.
>
> I am just putting feelers out there and looking for others' thoughts on the
> online & distance education part of HEOA of 2008.
>
> Thank you,
> Bob
>
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> Robert E. Long, MA
> Saginaw Valley State University
> Open Source Programmer / Analyst
> Math / Education Instructor
> M.A. Instructional Technology
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> E: relong at svsu.edu
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