👺How to check for potential cheating

Introduction

Although unfortunate, cheating is quite an issue, especially in online activities. Detecting it is also hard when the application you are using has no control or surveillance over what the students are doing in their respective computers.

However, with CodeChum, detecting potential cheating has been made possible by tracking the students' action logs. These logs reveal information such as how often a student switches tabs while answering, the peculiarly fast item-solving time compared to others, or even if they have oddly similar codes to other students!

Steps

To check for potential cheating in CodeChum, you can look at three things: the Has Cheating Issues section, the Actions Logs and the Cheating Likelihood Statistics.

Has Cheating Issues

To monitor if the student has potential cheating issues, do this.

1. Go to your class' Activities tab and click on an activity card you wish to view.

   
2. In the Takers tab, look for the Has Cheating Issues column. If it displays Yes it indicates that the student has potentially cheated during the activity.

   

Cheating Likelihood Statistics and Action Logs

To further investigate potential cheating issues, follow these steps:

1. Go to your class' Activities tab and click on an activity card you wish to view.

   
2. In the Takers tab, click on any student card. This should show another popup window.

   
3. In the View Solutions popup window, when you click an item you will see three tabs namely Source Code, Test Cases and Issue tab. To further investigate potential issues click the Issues tab. This will display the cheating statistics section, answer similarities and action logs.

   

   

   
4. If you wish, you can edit the students' scores from there by clicking on the Pencil icon beside the score.

   

And that's how you can check for any potential cheating within an activity in CodeChum!