Remote exam software is crashing when the stakes are the highest And raising more and more privacy concerns “Barmageddon” In 2015,the company agreed to paymore than $2 million to settle a class action suit after software failures affected the bar exams in 43 states. At the time, the situation spawned a catchy epithet: “barmageddon.” The company declined to comment on those incidents. And this year, two states with contracts with the proctoring company ILG Technologies, Indiana and Nevada,postponed their remote bar examsafter technical glitches were revealed during practice testing....

Remote learning during the pandemic has hit vulnerable students the hardest Schools had wildly different attendance rates for online learning In contrast to many districts around the country, most of which stopped taking attendance after the switch to distance learning, Florida tracked log-in and digital participation rates during the pandemic. The exact units of measurement varied, but generally, districts tallied the percentage of students who interacted with e-learning software during the school week....

Remote onboarding isn’t going away — so here’s how to perfect it 2020 might be gone, but remote onboarding isn’t What is organizational socialization? Organizational socialization is the experiences new employees have when joining a new organization, job role, or cohort. Think of it as learning the ropes, where new teammates discover what matters most at your company. Through conversations, shared experiences, and activities, new members connect with the core of your company’s value system and norms — beyond the words pasted on a wall or website....

Rob Spectre is a Red Sox fan making a living as a developer forBoxee, a web TV startup, in the white hot tech scene in New York City. The geography makes being a Red Sox fan pretty tough, as you might imagine. So Spectre developed the “Jeter Filter,” a chrome extension that completely filters Derek Jeter from your Internet experience. We caught up with Spectre shortly before the holiday weekend to discuss his Chrome App and why he hates the Yankees’ star shortstop....

Renault came up with a brilliant way of moving the process of ‘Liking’ on Facebook something into the real world this month. At the AutoRAI Amsterdam Motorshow in the Netherlands, the firm handed out RFID-equipped smartcards on its stand. Visitors could connect them to their Facebook profiles. From there, if a visitor liked the look of one of Renault’s cars, they swiped their card against a reader, automatically marking it as ‘Liked’ on their profile and posting up a link containing more information....