Category: communitycollege
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To Lock or Not to Lock?
Slides from IGNIS Webinar (4/26/18) Last fall, I was working as a part-time librarian at a community college when a student approached me at the reference desk and asked where she could take her test. She explained that she needed to download a software called Respondus that would lock down…
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To be a student parent at a community college in Washington State.
What is it like to go to college while taking care of a family? I have the privilege of saying I don’t know. What I do know is that I love working with community college students, in part because they are always juggling multiple responsibilities: taking care of family, working…
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Have we confused surveillance with assessment of student learning?
Somehow I had been blissfully unaware of Respondus Lockdown Browser until last week, when several students came to the library asking if we had this software available on our computers. If you’re not familiar with this product, Respondus is one of several LMS-integrated cheating-prevention tools. In simple terms, it shuts…
Zoe Fisher 