Now We Really Know Who You Are
Blackboard teamed up with Acxiom Identify-X to verify students in an online course:
Acxiom Identify-X periodically and randomly presents challenge questions to students before launching a course assessment. Questions are based only on public information and institutions choose the courses and assessments where identity verification is required. This fully hosted, Web-based solution prompts a student to enter only their name and address. Institutions set randomization and pass/fail thresholds, and instructors receive notifications when student identity cannot be verified.That sort of fail-safe identification system is a great way to enhance course integrity and we congratulate Blackboard for taking that first, important step, to help encourage student honesty.
Student activity has always been internally tracked by Blackboard, but now a leap into the future brings new resonance to "being who you are" in class and online.
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That's a big help. Should help cut down on cheating.
Yes, that's is certainly a tremendous benefit to the verification system. I also like the alerts sent to the instructor if any sense of fraud is detected by the system.
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