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When the country’s high school students this summer for the exam, will be an entirely new monitoring program be put into use. The Digital Prøvevagt is the name of the system to monitor the students ‘ computers when they are for the exam.
It is required that you install the program on his computer to prevent cheating. But even before the ‘spionprogrammet’ is taken in use, got it in this week fierce criticism on social media.
For after a good 150 students Monday participated in a major test of the program, created several postings on Facebook serious doubts about its safety.
In a video you can see how taking screenshots from the students ‘ computers, even when the exam is not in progress. And skærmdumpet are also saved on the computer, causing several students to fear that they will be monitored in the future. Also when the exam is over.
at the same time, the Ministry of education criticised for, that there were too many unanswered questions about how the program works. For example, why data ends up on a server with techfirmaet Amazon in Ireland? What data is recorded, and what subsequently happens to them?
Here is the video that shows how the screenshots are stored locally on your computer. However, it is a mistake, which has now been addressed, informs the Ministry of education to Ekstra Bladet.
Friday asked Extra Leaf, therefore a number of questions to the ministry, which on Friday evening recognises that there actually is an error in The Digital Prøvevagt:
‘When The Digital Prøvevagt starts up, it will take a screenshot of the student’s screen in order to read a QR code with the student eksamenskode (so the pupil do not have to enter his eksamenskode, ed.).’
‘In connection with the testing of the system, the 25.2 has a student has found out that The Digital Prøvevagt have loaded a file with such a screen from the student’s computer. It is an error in The Digital Prøvevagt that it has saved the file on the student hard drive,’ explains the ministry.
’the Screen must not be stored on the disk, but exclusively handled in the memory. This error is reported to the supplier of the system and will be corrected in the course of today.’
‘It is precisely in order to detect such errors, we implement the test of the solution before it is put into use in the real exams.’
According to the Ministry of education, there is nothing strange or problematic in that data is stored at Amazon and must be deleted after four months.
’the Data from The Digital Prøvevagt is located at Amazon Web Services in Ireland (EU). The reason for this is that the system is characterized by having a large peak-load with many thousands of concurrent users, when the tests are executed, and similarly large parts of the year with minimal stress.’
‘A necessary condition for a cloud solution is that data is stored and processed safely. We have made a databehandleraftale with Amazon Web Services, which meets the EU requirements for the storage and processing of data. We adhere to all the rules of processing of personal data,’ assesses the ministry.
How to see the opening image when you log in to the demo version of The Digital Prøvevagt. Screen dump/alexandernorup.com
How it works The Digital Prøvevagt
The Digital Prøvevagt is a program that high school students should install on their computer during the exams.
It is possible for students to delete the program after each exam and re-install it when you re up to the exam.
During the test, take The Digital Prøvevagt screenshots of the student’s computer records what websites the learner access and what programs are running on your computer.
Though the program is installed on the computer before the exam, so goes the registration first in time, when the exam begins. And ends when the student submits his task – alternatively, no later than 15 minutes after the exam is over, if nothing is handed in.
Data is stored on a secured server for four months, before it is deleted. Only trusted personnel can occur if there is a suspicion of cheating, access the files. There can also take samples from the pupils, if they have achieved surprisingly good results.
If there arises a case within the four months, the data can be saved until the case is completed.
Source: Ministry of education
The fierce criticism received on Friday the ministry to meet with elevorganisationerne Landssammenslutningen of Handelsskoleelever, Danish high school students and the vocational institutes ‘ Student Organization.
‘At the meeting we discussed the various topics that have been up on social media in recent days. Elevorganisationerne asked, interested to The Digital Prøvevagt, and including that the solution does not monitor unnecessarily. We furthermore agree that we need to inform more about what the Digital Prøvevagt do.’
There were, therefore, already on Friday posted a page with questions and answers on the net.
‘at the same time, sent a letter to the institutions, in which the key issues are.’
7. march and 21. march will be held in addition: two rehearsals, where The Digital Prøvevagt again be tested. Then, it is proposed that the programme should be used at exams at the nation’s colleges.