A Texas A&M commerce professor attempted to flunk over half of his senior class after using ChatGPT to test whether the students used the chatbot to write their papers. He copied and pasted the papers into ChatGPT and asked if it wrote them, to which it replied yes.

Not only can a university turn Desk Scan on or off for the entire campus, for a department or for a full class, but also individually for students who raise a concern about privacy.

Proctorio has a strict data policy against such an act. The recordings we conduct are at the university's request and are shared only with the course's professor or other approved administrator. They cannot be downloaded and saved for unmonitored, offline viewing or forwarded to third parties. Other competitors of ours allow this, but it is a line in the sand we will not cross

this obviously impact the choices we make in trying to provide universities with options to serve all their students' diverse needs.

While normally reserved for more criminal and social justice matters, the judge found the amendment applied to the university and deemed their actions a violation of the student's right against an illegal search.

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