Artifact #7

It is great that teachers are starting to use technology to stop cheating.  Cheating has always been a huge problem when it has come to large colleges because teachers are just not able to go around and make sure that every student is taking the test honestly.  This is why it is outstanding that colleges such as Central Florida have implemented a way for students to take tests with having almost no chance of cheating.  These rooms that have cheat proof computers are perfect because it stops almost any chance that students had of trying to cheat.  Not only is it really hard for them to cheat, but even if it is possible they are so scared to try because of the environment that they are in that most of the time they probably will not try to do it.  It would be really great if many of the other colleges in the nation would use this system so that students do not cheat on tests, but with funds often times hard to come by it will probably be a long time before many of the schools move to this system.  The use of stopping plagairism through technology is becoming more widespread though.  In high school I had to always submit my papers to turnitin.com which was a place that looked to see if the paper you wrote had i phrases or anything in common with any other papers that were posted on the internet.  This is a very good tool to stop plagairism and there are many other websites like it that teachers use on the college level.  Plagairism is probably the most common problem today because many students like to take the easy way out and just copy and paste a paper from the internet.  So websites like this are essential so that this humungous problem is prevented as much as possible.  What is important about technology now becoming a big factor in stopping cheating is that the percent of people that admitted to cheating in college has gone down and probably will continue to go down.  With the great advancements in technology for stopping cheating only continuing to get better, I bet as the years go by and these different ways to prevent it become more affordable for schools the percent of people in college that cheat will probably fall below 10 percent.  This would be a huge step for colleges because it has probably been a really long time since the number of people that cheat was this low.  This would help many of the students learn more in the long run because they would actually do what they are supposed to do when they are in college, which is study.  The more the technology gets better and cheating gets stopped, the more that students will learn during their time in college.  This will only teach them how much hard work that they need to do once they get to the real world and this will make them better business people because they will often times be very advanced compared to the other workers that they are working with because they know the value of hard work.