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Introduction of modern information technologies in educational process provides new opportunities for students and teachers. However, apart from indisputable contributions, modern information technologies and its broad usage bring forth some new challenges. This paper presents an approach which we use to detect cheating during formative assessment in Moodle environment. We describe process of obtaining data from Moodle backup archive, its transformation and, consequently, its evaluation. Later we show what possibilities the evaluated data give us to identify potential cheaters. Some ideas about enhancement of cheating detection process are also discussed.
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This work has been supported by the KEGA grant 062TUKE-4/2013, granted by Cultural and Education Grant Agency (KEGA), Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic.
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Genci, J. (2014). Discovering Cheating in Moodle Formative Quizzes. In: Silhavy, R., Senkerik, R., Oplatkova, Z., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Modern Trends and Techniques in Computer Science. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06740-7_40
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