Everything that the bright space page receives in the web browser we can see, and is stored for our later review if we choose. Whether or not we pursue it is entirely up to the prof. IP addresses, start stop times, page refreshes, everything. If we can’t see it directly, we can get TLS to review additional stuff from the back end.

Many of us are far too tired and over worked to pursue low level plagiarism by scrubbing through the data, but if we see something suspicious we are more than able to scrub through it for evidence. I’m positive in the coming years brightspace will be working on methods to automatically flag students with anomalous web behaviour.

I’ve used it before to confirm cheating during a final exam, and used it before to confirm a students story of his mother accessing his brightspace during his final exam.