‘Zoombies’ Take Over Online Classrooms

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‘Zoombies’ Take Over Online Classrooms

Digital disruptors sharing racist, sexist and pornographic content in Zoom videoconferences show no sign of slowing down as “Zoombombing” trend grows.
By
Lindsay McKenzie
April 3, 2020
 

A brief exchange is all it took for one student to completely derail an online accounting test at the University of Arizona yesterday.

“Don’t make it too obvious at the start that you are trolling, just ease into it lmao.”

“I got you, me and two other friends are joining.”

Armed with a Zoom videoconference ID, the trolls got to work. Their efforts to disrupt the test resulted in its cancellation. Students have been asked to complete the test in their own time, the university confirmed.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/03/zoombombing-isn%E2%80%99t-going-away-and-it-could-get-worse

[PeteS in CA]

While I have some inclination to be sympathetic, it's counter-balanced and beyond by the predictability of this: the average character of modern college students; universities admitting unqualified schlubs; universities not discipling moronic and bad behavior.