In a digital classroom, promoting and ensuring academic integrity is considered more challenging as compared to an in-person classroom setting. We can understand that online exams may give increased opportunities to students to cheat as opposed to the supervised exams conducted at institutions, but research indicates that online assessments don’t necessarily increase instances of cheating when compared to those in-person.

Institutions around the world have adapted to offer their courses online since the pandemic began, especially the higher education courses. Institutions, along with the students, have embraced the benefits of distance learning and worked through the challenges with a hope that they would experience the normality of in-person offerings soon. While some parts of the world have started to open face-to-face courses, many higher education institutions are still facing an increased pressure to offer more online or, at the least, hybrid courses. Therefore, it’s likely that instructors will be expected to continue with online teaching for a few more years to come.

Everyone takes time to adapt to a new environment and instructors are no exception. During the challenging months of the pandemic, instructors have coped with a lot of changes and are continuing to experiment with how to best engage and build a positive rapport with their students in the online classroom.