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Even if they are, so what? Sure, time would probably be better spent making their online testing actually work. However, anti-cheating is always something these types of tests prepare for whether that's exam room monitoring or trying to protect their online exams. Setting up a honeypot to get students seems exactly like the lazy method these people would attempt.


Why is setting up a honeypot lazy? If they had been good at it it would have worked flawlessly.

Just disqualify anyone who copy/pastes answers from the known shared workspace.




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