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Respondus Helps Curtail Cheating while Protecting Privacy
Supported tools to address your high stakes assessment needs
As technology continues to advance, traditional classroom practices are enhanced with technologies. In-class assessments that used to take up valuable time are often administered through...
Posted: April 10, 2023, 8:57 AM
Akindi Importer Tool Available on 7/1
Write Questions in MS Word and Quickly Add to Blackboard
In the spirit of promoting academic integrity in testing, faculty in both Biology and Chemistry have been leveraging large question pools in their courses. Beginning July 1, the Akindi Importer...
Posted: May 11, 2022, 10:25 AM
UMBC Migrates from Scantron to Akindi
New Platform Easier to Use and Supports Campus-Wide Analysis
Last year, DoIT announced the pilot of a tool called Akindi, which serves as a Scantron alternative and allows instructors to print and score bubble sheets from any local printer/scanner. There...
Posted: May 6, 2022, 3:28 PM
SP22 Survey Shines Light on Faculty Testing
Key themes: academic integrity, accommodations, testing ctr.
In an effort to gather information on how faculty design and administer tests, DoIT collaborated with the Faculty Development Center (FDC) and Student Disability Services (SDS) to create and...
Posted: May 2, 2022, 1:30 PM
