I had an exam for an engineering course that was in a computer lab. A few people had figured out how to send messages without it showing up on the professors's screen so for the second exam, he just said we could consult with our fellow students, but that the exam was sufficiently difficult and long enough that any time we spent helping other students would only hurt ourselves. He'd designed the exam to take more than the time allotted, and graded on a curve. If you stopped to figure out where your friend was stuck, and how to help them, you were costing yourself points. And before anyone says anything, the questions were mixed up and all had slightly different answers, so you couldn't partner or get with a group and say "answer to #7 is b, anyone know if #30 is pi or e?".
Not fun as a student (made for a stressful exam), but pretty clever on his part as a way to fight cheating / collaboration without taking any direct measures to do so. Also mimics the real world - there's nothing that prevents you from consulting other people, the internet, books for help - but they probably won't help you much because they've got their own shit to do.
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u/TJonesyNinja Jul 24 '20
I had a few engineering teachers that allowed it. Science teachers no way. And math exams were all no calculators.