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Strategies for Exploring Technology as a Proctoring Solution

After COVID, remote learning spiked, and now we can never go back to only providing on-campus testing. We find ourselves learning new ways to reach students near and far with the capability of various proctoring tools at our service.

Tay McEdwards, gives us a look into solutions for the online demand for proctoring. Tay is a member of NCTA and serves on the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Online Learning. This document has been published in the Northwest eLearning Journal and is shared to NCTA members with Tay’s permission.

Ideal Test Center

This project is a culmination of dedicated volunteers’ work to draft a document to help membership in planning new test centers, or upgrading existing ones. Our thanks to Chair, Bill Thelen, for leading the committee in creating this work, as well as the committee members.

Committee Chair
William Thelen, Central Washington University

Committee Members (in alphabetical order by last name)
Michael Behrens, Parkland
Angela Cooke, Michigan Technological University
Llesmin Gonzalez, Texas State Technical College
Melinda Ingiaimo, University of North Carolina Wilmington
April Johnson, Blue Ridge Community and Technical College
Matthew Lankford, On-Target Training Courses
Guillermo Laya, Montgomery College Rockville
Sherry Machacek, College of DuPage
Cara Sams, Northwest Arkansas Community College
Celeste Smith, University of Kansas