{"id":13228,"date":"2020-12-14T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2020-12-14T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:34:11","slug":"online-exams-causing-student-stress-tips-on-how-to-use-respondus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=13228","title":{"rendered":"Online exams causing student stress; tips on how to use Respondus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This semester Guelph-Humber University is using Respondus for all exams, adding anxiety for some to the already stressful process of writing exams according to students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.respondus.com\/he\/lockdownbrowser\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondus LockDown Browser<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a downloadable program used to ensure students do not cheat during invigilated exams. It closes all your browser windows and opens the exam in a private browser where you can\u2019t look anything up, or leave the site. The browser will not close until you submit your exam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third-year visual communications student Zac Buttivant does not feel ready for online exams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just feel like a lot of people don&#8217;t know how to use the program and the new learning curve that comes with it. I have not heard any information at all about how to use it from any of my profs,\u201d said Buttivant, who needs to write two exams online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students are being told by the school to download the system in advance and complete a practice test before the exam day in order to write exams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third-year justice studies student Baden Smeal says it takes more time to write quizzes on Respondus and is annoyed with the process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe camera distracts you, having the camera watch you feels weird. In the back of my head, I know someone is watching me,\u201d Smeal said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third-year visual communications student Anson Lee says privacy is a concern.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHaving the program video and audio record my surroundings is an evasion of my privacy and I\u2019m being forced to do it. I\u2019m stuck, if I don\u2019t agree to write the exam, I\u2019ll fail my class. Final exams should be open book and non invigilated like our<\/span> midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester Guelph-Humber University is using Respondus for all exams, adding anxiety for some to the already stressful process of writing exams according to students.\u00a0 &nbsp; Respondus LockDown Browser is a downloadable program used to ensure students do not cheat during invigilated exams. It closes all your browser windows and opens the exam in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":14349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[592,62],"tags":[652,651],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}