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Know
 * "To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery"**
 * No gum is allowed during an exam
 * Copy not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files — educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.
 * Fifty-five percent of colleges and universities now use such a service, according to the Campus Computing Survey.

Want to know
 * "using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot."
 * Can students trick turnitin.com?

Learn


 * The best-known service, Turnitin.com
 * When a proctor sees something suspicious, he records the student’s real-time work at the computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of images are burned onto a CD for evidence.