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The way you do online exams is by contracting other universities proctored test centers and making students attend the nearest one on exam day.

There's a whole system for this, it already works very well if people actually wanted to make online exams work. Of course it's not "social distancing" so it didn't help with covid.

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For what it's worth I've tried that (here in WA state, in the US) and most colleges (including mine) don't have a test proctoring center. Occasionally you'll find one but the center will frequently will only proctor tests for their own college (i.e., it's not public service - it's just for that college).

So here in WA, USA there's definitely a system for this. If you don't mind sharing - where do you live? Have you used this proctoring-for-other-colleges system? How do you know about it?

People often say Virginia has a lot of good universities and I always thought they were overstating it. Maybe they're right.

Both the University I attended and the ones near my home town proctored tests for the public. I actually used that service very heavily in high school to test out of ~50 hours of gened classes.

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