Copy Text

Copy Text

by Pedro Oliveira -
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Hello,
Is it possible to select an option that avoid students to copy text in general online classes and exams?
Thanks you
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Re: Copy Text

by Simon Humby -
I don't think there is.
A Moodle site is just like a website in many ways.
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Re: Copy Text

by Tim Hunt -
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Bear in mind that you can point most modern mobile phone cameras at any text, and it will transcribe it for you. In 2022, there is essentialy n technical 'solution' to make it impossible to copy anything.

Getting people to respect your copyright is a social problem, not a technical one. Always has been really.
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Re: Copy Text

by Dominique Bauer -
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Hello Pedro,

In the quiz settings, if you activate "Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security", then the students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.

See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_settings#Extra_restrictions_on_attempts
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by Joost Elshoff -
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If you really want to block a student from copying text in an exam, you could consider running the SafeExamBrowser to fully lockdown a session for a student. Then, there's no chance they can copy text and images.

On the other hand... why is such a level of control required?

If it's learning content you'd want to protect: turn your content into scorm packages?
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Re: Copy Text

by Marcus Green -
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I recommend creating so many exam questions that even if someone has a copy of all of them it wouldn't help anyone else much, then make them be selected at random in the quiz.
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