When working over the internet with my students I adopted an entirely different test system. First, no questions, everything required extensive analysis and engineering details (the class was in Systems Engineering). Second, the students had to answer everything in a open setting and I had students criticize other’s answers. (These were for homework, not grade).
Finally, each test was on the honor system but with 24 yours to respond. I believe the students could use the internet for help here but I tried to use problems of my own design, that they could not look up. I thought it worked well, but was more work for me than a typical class with midterms from the textbook company. I guess the clever students could get answers from these too, but they were thousands of questions and they were generated for each test using a random process. Testing always has this problem, and when each student has the same problem, one student can send the rest of the class the answers. So showing the work becomes essential as well.
Good for you.
I am not against online education. There just have to be fail safes in place, just like on roller coasters.
Not every professor is meant to be an online educator. Not every student is meant to be an online student. Not every class is meant to be an online class.
Not every class is meant to be an in person class. I took a medical terminology class via online learning. I cannot imagine a better class suited for the online format and a worse class suited for a traditional format.
We had to take our final exam at the testing center under supervisor.
My senior year of high school my thermodynamics class had a test a week and threw out the lowest 2 test score. Each test was open book, any book, but there wasn’t enough time to learn during the test. You would get a B if you laid out the equations, put in the correct numbers but did not do any arithmetic.
I also liked classes where you could use a 3x5 card for whatever information you wanted to put on it. You learn a lot when hand lettering at a 2 PT size.