Authentication and Identity Verification in Online Courses

What are we really talking about?

Security and Authenticity

we’ll discuss tools, methods, tricks of the trade,

best practices and other means of preventing

cheating, catching cheating and maintaining

order in online courses

Most will be from experience, not everything

will be currently employed in a production

environment

How would you cheat?

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TIME!

How would I cheat?

Copy someone elses paper

Get the test bank online

Pay someone to take my course

Copy another paper

“A Farewell to Arms was a story

written by Ernest Hemingway and

narrated about Lieutenant Fredrick

Henry personal experiences in the

Italian army. He uses a first person

narration although he sometimes

switches to the second person for

some philosophical reflections. The

narrative structure enables the reader

to capture the plot setting of the story.

By indicating the participation in

World War 1 the reader are able to…”

Get the test bank

Pay someone to take my course

For the most accurate price, simply

e-mail your class syllabus to

sales@onlineclasshelp.com or call

1-855-438-4936 EXT 1 to speak

with a sales representative.

So how do we prevent it?

1. Cheatability

2. Identity Verification

3. Authentication

Cheatability…

Your course is susceptible (and how)

cheatability quiz.

Honor Code continued…

Site Terms and Conditions: http://yourmoodle.com/admin/settings.php?section=sitepolicies

Prior to assignment submission: http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Assignment_settings#Require_that_students_accept_the_Submission_statement

Prior to quiz launch:

1. conditional: http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Conditional_activities_settings#Activity_completion

2. mod: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=quizaccess_honestycheck

Best Practices in Examinations

● Randomized test banks

● Non-publisher test banks

● Timed

● IP restricted?

● Lock-down Browser?

● 1 to 2-3 (higher the better) ratio questions

asked to questions in the bank

● Proctored

ID verification

For Quizzes/Exams

ID verifications

non exams

ID verification

Logs

IP addresses

Authentication

Super Cool Ish

http://eproktor.com

Super Cool Ish

http://ilite.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/moodle-

login-using-face-recognition/

Sources and Images

Images:

● locks: http://unsplash.com/

● honor code: http://www.pingry.org/