[LON-CAPA-users] Exams with lon-capa

Lars Jensen lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:50:45 -0700


Guy Albertelli II wrote:

>Hi Lars,
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>>>>The question is how best to assure that no students logs in from outside
>>>>the exam room, like from home, and takes the exam from there. Does
>>>>lon-capa have some feature to prevent this, or is it planned? 
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>>>The parameter:
>>>Client IP/Name Access Control (acc)
>>>
>>>Is supposed to implment this. I don't believe it has any effect
>>>currently.
>>>
>>>But it should eventually allow you to specify an IP address or a group
>>>of IP addresses that are the only machines allowed to access this
>>>resource.
>>> 
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>>This would be a very cumbersome solution for most situations. In general 
>>i wouldn't know what the exact IP's my students would have. and 
>>wildcards would be out of the questions because the general access labs 
>>here have IP's very similar to those of the classrooms. A better 
>>solution would be the one I outlined, with a password released at the 
>>time of the exam.
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>Not much of a defense against cell phones/pagers/ICQ/IM/email/etc.
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>Server side defense is the only thing that will actually work.
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Tru in the case of a class of 180. Not true in a class of 25 or less, 
like our classes.  -I don't mean to say that there's anything wrong with 
being able to restrict IP's, but I think having both ways available is key.

Lars.