Here is my school's method of administering online exams:

1. Use cell phone logged into Zoom that faces the cross section of my desk and myself

   a. Paper must be visible at all times & professor must be able to read text written on it
   b. Head can not move outside of Zoom's camera frame during the whole testing period
   c. You can not look around, only down at your paper

2. The professor will email everyone in that Zoom an exam made for that section of the class (so people in an earlier exam can't send it to others). You have 3 minutes to print it & move your computer out of the workspace. I have gotten 'harder' versions of exams before, compared to the other section taking the same course.

3. At end of testing period, everyone must show the pages they are about to scan & submit. You have 3 minutes to scan all pages & upload online to class portal.

I don't necessarily have a problem with this methodology to prevent cheating. I do well on these exams.

My problem is that I have friends at other universities whose professors don't Procter their exams. Their university puts in minimal effort to expose cheating (in engineering courses).

When applying to future jobs, I will showcase two worst-case possible outcomes:

    1. "Hiring managers will discount everyone's grades from the covid era because of rampant cheating." This is unfair to me because my university made my testing experience miserable to prevent cheating. Hiring managers won't know which universities/departments took attempts to prevent cheating

    2. "My resume will be tossed because I got a 3.5 gpa while others got a 4.0" The hiring managers won't know the testing procedures each individual went through. So they will just choose a higher gpa (less-risky candidate, in general).

I'm doing alright in this online environment. Just trying to explain to others how it can be quite unfair.