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July 16, 2008, 11:53 AM ET
Test-Answer Site Removes Professors' Ability to Block Their Tests
A Web site that invites students to post exam answers online for others to view, PostYourTest.com, has eliminated the ability of professors to request that tests from their courses be banned from the site.
Posting answers made some professors worry that students would use them to cheat on exams. Demir A. Oral, the operator of the site, told The Chronicle last week that he allowed professors to place their courses on a “Ban List” that would exclude their materials from the site. He said that 200 professors had made such requests and he had complied.
But a notice on the site now says “the Ban List is suspended.” It says that already-made ban requests will be honored. Professors must now wait for content to be posted before requesting removal, and submit a form stipulating that they own the copyright to the material and that their request meets requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. —Josh Fischman
Categories: Legal-Troubles
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