Cheating Prevention

  1. Software options
  2. Presume they cheat and design accordingly
    • Large test banks, randomized questions, and shuffled answers 
    • Draw specifically on course content/lectures—nothing from Wikipedia or Google
    • Limit time
    • Make every option familiar or plausible
    • Red herring answers
    • Do not use textbook question banks—those have been catalogued
    • Delay test score availability
    • One question at a time, and disable question backtracking
    • Have students sign a contract.   
  3. Search for cheating strategies in your course and redesign your assessment
  4. Perform a search for your course, e.g., “Haugen Philosophy Test Answers”
  5. Check some common cheating websites for your exam questions
    • Chegg.com. 

      Here are the contacts for getting your content removed from Chegg: chegghonorcode1@chegg.com and cc to copyrightagent@chegg.com

      Specifically, make sure they understand that it's your content up there, and they are violating your/the school's copyright by having it up on their site.  You will need the department chair or someone further up the administrative ladder to request an investigation if you want the account info and the timestamps for when the posts were made and copies of the provided answers. This is based on their "honor policy" https://www.chegg.com/honorcode Links to an external site.

    • Coursehero.com
    • Quizlet.com
    • Brainly.com
    • Answers.com
    • Eduanswer.org
    • Yahoo Answers
    • Slideshare
  6. Various articles