"Print screen / copy page" Protection

Re: "Print screen / copy page" Protection

by Howard Miller -
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So, you are asking your users to download a specific, crippled browser and then restrict them to only using that. 

Are you *sure* that you want to do that?

Even then, I expect it's not very difficult to get around. That's *if* the information is worth copying. 

In reply to Howard Miller

Re: "Print screen / copy page" Protection

by Tim Hunt -
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Well yes. In a traditional exam, we cripple students by putting them in a room with someone supervising them, remove all reference materials, and any technology better than a pen, pencil and ruler, and expect that to be a valid measure of their abilities (or at least a measure of their abilities where it is hard to cheat).

Giving them a laptop and a crippled browser is a step in the right direction. There are educational scenarios where it is the least evil option.

(I wonder if Howard will come to Mahmoud's and my MoodleMoot talk in Edinburgh? wink)