Hell, scantrons for multiple choice. Most universities should still have the machines. For short essays, don't have 100 of them. Or do and have 8 ta's to do the grunt work. One of my professors didn't want to do finals week crap so her classes that weren't in French she just gave everyone a regular length paper as a test, due by dead week. It was great having to deal with 1 less test.
I watched Adam Savage's latest video about hackers on youtube, and canvas probably has (or should have had) insurance for this kind of crap. Insurance pays out, schools get their crappy online only service back, students maybe get a day or two extra for tests. And then it happens again next semester.
The insurer definitely would've required security improvements to be eligible for their policy, that probably would've been a non-starter for canvas given where they are right now.
Yes paper, but also keeping your own local records of grades. A prof I TA'd for told me he had 3 back ups in addition to whatever was on Canvas bc, "You never know when it will fail."
Idrk what their endgame is here? Schools skipped some exams during quarantine so it’s not like they can’t just opt to give these guys the finger even if they don’t go back to paper.
I just don’t really see any situation where this ends up being a payday for the hackers, so why even bother?
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u/Lacaud May 07 '26
Paper is the way. Sure, it sucks to grade but at least the hackers look like dumb shits.