An approach to presence verification in summative e-assessment security

Abstract

The security of online summative assessments goes beyond ensuring that the ‘right’ student is authenticated at the initial login. More is required to ensure that the same authenticated student is present for the duration of the online test. In this paper, we explore the benefits and limitations of existing authentication methods as a technique to achieve presence verification. Additionally, we propose, a low-intrusive and low-resource intensive approach towards verifying a student's presence during summative e-assessments.