{"id":330,"date":"2010-08-02T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:18:35","slug":"ameb-online-examinations-notes-from-feb-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/ameb-online-examinations-notes-from-feb-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"AMEB Online Examinations &#8211; Notes from Feb Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relying purely on my notes here from the Feb\/March-whenever-it-was Seminar I attended on the new Online Examinations for Theory.<\/p>\n<p>Covered first was the concern teachers mainly had with the online examinations on just how to prevent students from cheating. \u00a0We learned:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A parent would need to pay for the theory exams\/practice examinations firstly by credit card.<\/li>\n<li>A supervisor (either the parent or teacher) would need to be present whilst the student is doing their online examination. \u00a0Not to assist, but to ensure the student isn&#8217;t doing anything they shouldn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>The AMEB will make random calls to supervisors to check they were actually supervising that particular student.<\/li>\n<li>If a student really wanted to cheat, there was no way they could stop them even with the way things are right now (ie an older sibling could sit a written theory exam for them). \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t benefit the student in the long run anyway, and the online examinations are for First and Second Grades only at present.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On supervisors:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The supervisor must be present and sign a declaration to state so, before the student begins their online examination.<\/li>\n<li>The supervisor must be over 18.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other interesting pieces of information:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online examinations will work on broadband or dial up.<\/li>\n<li>You must have a web browser and Adobe installed.<\/li>\n<li>The time limit for completion of the online examination is the same as the written.<\/li>\n<li>Enrollments, payments etc are all done online. \u00a0Once you pay you will receive a password which you need to use each time you log in.<\/li>\n<li>You pay the one fee, then you can do as many practice examinations as you like before the &#8216;real exam&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>You can practice for months if you choose (up to 12 months, I think I heard &#8211; 1 year before it expires).<\/li>\n<li>There is a group exam option for multiple students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need to prepare any students to use the computer (younger students perhaps &#8211; because most students WILL know how to use a computer) and to familiarise them with a similar program, the developers of the Online Examinations have another website that is in the same sort of format as the online exams (where the concept came from, I&#8217;m guessing). You can visit their site and do trial lessons at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theory.com.au\">emusic theory<\/a> (also found at www.theory.com.au).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying purely on my notes here from the Feb\/March-whenever-it-was Seminar I attended on the new Online Examinations for Theory. Covered first was the concern teachers mainly had with the online examinations on just how to prevent students from cheating. \u00a0We learned:- A parent would need to pay for the theory exams\/practice examinations firstly by credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}