At the start of the fourth quarter, the Shawnee Mission School District began piloting a Canvas lockdown browser in all secondary schools — middle and high schools — in the district. Teachers had requested a tool to help preserve the integrity of tests for years, according to SM East instructional coach Kelsi Horner.  The lockdown browser program has been instated to prevent cheating, but students and teachers have reported that the system is glitchy and unreliable. The program works purely during Canvas quizzes and uses a separate application. “The whole point of assessments is to see what [students] learned,” Horner said. “The other issue with that is if [they’re] cheating on it, then it’s no longer valid. So part of it is protecting the security of the test, and part of that is protecting the teacher’s time that they’ve put into it.”  To read more, click the link in bio. #storybysloanehenderson #photobycharlottewalton #socialmediabylucyswope