OK, so I'm in my first class in the UMass Lowell MBA program that actually has proctored exams. Mrs. Cargojon is enrolled at Columbia College in Missouri and with her proctored exams, typically they give you a window of time (typically Wednesday through Saturday) to take the exams. This professor is giving us ONE day to take the proctored exam. ONE day. Is this typical of those of you who are in programs requiring proctored exams? This to my sounds pretty unreasonable and defeats a large part of the purpose of distance learning. Thoughts? I plan on trashing this class on the post-course review for this and a multitude of other reasons...my first two classes were great but this one is pretty awful.
That's not surprising! All my classes from the Engineering Management department at Lyle School School of Engineering - Southern Methodist University requires to take the exam on the same day as on campus students. Regardless where the distance learning students, some even in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq are required to take the same day. Any exam is not faxed over by 10 P.M Central Time, student will receive ZERO on the exam. My Electrical Engineering department allows student up to 1 week to complete the exam. So, it depends on the department and professors. I proctor for one of the student at Penn State University, usually the instructors allow up to 4 days to complete the exam.
I think some school or perhaps professors don't get the idea behind distance learning. It's supposed to be flexible for people who do neat things like work for a living....
At Troy I had some (very few) professors put specific restrictions on when a proctored exam must be taken. But even then they would at least give you a couple of days from which to choose. I agree that limiting it to just one day seems a bit goofy. Maybe it's a misguided attempt to reduce cheating? JJ
If you're that worried about cheating you shouldn't be engaging in distance learning LOL. That's they whole idea behind a proctor, right?
