Online Student Assessment With Process Control and Identity Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer-based online evaluation systems lack robust security measures to prevent cheating and ensure user identity verification, often relying on student cooperation and simultaneous use of multiple applications.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that secures the evaluation environment by identifying and stopping unauthorized processes, verifying user identity through remote monitoring, and allowing controlled access to the evaluation using a server-connected environment with output and input devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If remote monitoring via camera and process control are implemented, then security and cheating prevention are improved, but device complexity and system requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides security functions into separate modules: camera monitoring, process identification, process control, and identity verification. Each module operates independently but coordinates through the server, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive security.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between the student's information processing apparatus and the evaluation system. The server handles process monitoring, camera coordination, and identity verification remotely, reducing the complexity burden on the student's device while maintaining strong security.
2Reliability
If multiple applications must be used simultaneously, then security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple security functions into a unified evaluation environment. The camera monitoring, process control, and identity verification are integrated into a single coordinated system that operates automatically without requiring the student to manage multiple separate applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs security monitoring and verification automatically without requiring active student participation. Process monitoring, camera coordination, and identity verification occur autonomously, eliminating the need for students to simultaneously manage multiple applications while maintaining security.
3Device complexity
If student cooperation and honesty are relied upon, then device complexity is reduced, but reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors process status and camera activity, providing real-time feedback to the server. This enables automatic detection of cheating behavior and dynamic adjustment of access permissions, maintaining high reliability without requiring complex student-side security measures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces reliance on student honesty with automated technical monitoring mechanisms. Process identification and control, camera monitoring, and identity verification are performed through technical systems rather than trusting student cooperation, maintaining security without increasing device complexity.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method for an online student assessment includes: using a server computer for: gaining access to an information processing apparatus; the information processing apparatus having an output device, a camera, and at least one input device; identifying processes running on the information processing apparatus; stopping the processes on the information processing apparatus that have been determined as being unallowed during the online student assessment; verifying an identity of a user of the student computer; if the identity of the user is confirmed then, while remotely monitoring the user via the camera, displaying questions on the display monitor, and receiving answers via the at least one input device; restarting at least one of the unallowed processes; and restoring access to the student computer.