Online Student Identity Verification
Hybrid and fully online courses extend teaching and learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom and enable institutions to deliver instruction anytime and anywhere. To ensure the integrity of academic programs, colleges and universities need mechanisms to verify that the student enrolled in an online course is the same student completing course assessments.
Acxiom Identify-X™ provides secure and cost effective online student identity verification. Using familiar technology currently employed to reduce fraud in online banking, Acxiom Identify-X confirms student identity without intrusive and expensive devices such as web cameras or the need to hire exam proctors and require students to use test centers.
Discourage and Detect Academic Fraud
Acxiom Identify-X periodically and randomly presents challenge questions to students before launching a course assessment. Questions are based only on public information and institutions choose the courses and assessments where identity verification is required. This fully hosted, Web-based solution prompts a student to enter only their name and address. Institutions set randomization and pass/fail thresholds, and instructors receive notifications when student identity cannot be verified.
Configure to Meet Your Institution’s Needs
Based on total student count, Blackboard and ANGEL clients are offered a set of free verifications per year through this partnership with Acxiom. Clients can implement this solution at no additional cost, and it is conveniently available as a Blackboard Building Block™, Blackboard PowerLink™ or ANGEL extension.
Get started today!
Download the Acxiom Identify-X Building Block or PowerLink from Behind the Blackboard™ today. ANGEL clients please contact your client manager.
Learn more about the benefits of online student identity verification from Acxiom.
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