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A more professional way to cheat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprompter

This could be set up by placing a phone screen on the laptop keyboard facing up, then positioning a 45° piece of glass and some black baffles.

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Unless you had multiple teleprompters around the room, that sounds like it would be less successful than the unprofessional ways some of the students came up with.

The teacher asked students to move their camera around during the recitation.

The article has more details about some of the creative ways the students "cheated" and how the teacher tried to catch them. The obvious methods wouldn't work in this situation.

If the teleprompter is attached to the camera, this would still work.

the article also says that one student was asked to turn their back to the camera, which would further confound cheating via teleprompter

It says

> anticipating that I might ask her to turn around

I don't think it's clear whether she was actually asked to turn around.

> and sometimes I asked them to do random challenges such as turn around and continue reciting the numbers

Ah, didn't catch that, my bad.

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