Discouraging Dishonesty

Many who have not taught online wonder how one can discourage dishonesty. There are many strategies that are easy to implement and not costly. A few of the more popular ones are:

1. Use unique case studies each semester
2. Require distant students to take exams using a proctor
3. Phone students (or use VoIP) for an oral exam
4. Try Turnitin or another anti-plagiarism software tool
5. Create an honor code for the class
6. Require annotated bibliographies for final papers

These and many other strategies can help you achieve a greater certainty of integrety than in on campus classes.

UIS has an online test proctoring policy: http://otel.uis.edu/Portal/teachers/proctoredexams/index.asp

There are several online anti-plagiarism tools, including:

http://www.turnitin.com