Online finals at Korean universities again marred by cheating

Mass cheating in online exams has resurfaced during finals at Korean universities, exposing institutions’ incomplete preparedness and ongoing struggles to establish effective online test controls and guidelines for students' artificial intelligence (AI) use. According to Seoul National University, Sunday, the results of a final exam for a general education course offered by its College of Natural Sciences were invalidated after signs of cheating were detected among nearly half of the 36 students enrolled. The course was an online distance-learning class designed for students on leave for mandatory military service, with both lectures and exams conducted remotely. To prevent misconduct, the exam system was set to record activity whenever test-takers opened any windows other than the exam screen. A subsequent review by a teaching assistant later found such logs for nearly half of the students, leading the university to invalidate the exam results. However, it has been difficult to conclusively establish misconduct because the logs do not indicate which screens were accessed. As a result,