Tests don't test except when they do
With the transition to online courses many instructors seek to recreate the conditions of residential class quizzes, tests, and examinations. Instructors may deploy time limits to mimic residential class assessments, deploy lockdown browser software such as Respondus, or require students to sit the assessment while being monitored in real time by video link. A colleague once said to me, "In online education, tests do not test." Trying to recreate the traditional in-class test experience in an online course is the proverbial attempting to put new wine in an old wineskin. I am reminded of the Princess Leia quote, ""The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." One has simply created a prisoner in a prison situation where the student inmates seek to find ways to circumvent whatever guardrails the instructor has put in place. Another colleague expressed surprise when they learned that tests in my course have effect