Notes and Trends

At Stevens Institute of Technology, students had written computer programs or bots to help speed up their ability to register for classes and get an edge in course selection. For those students without the bots, they found themselves at a disadvantage in class selection. And for those with the bots, if they forgot to delete their names from the bots, other students using the bots could disenroll those students from selected classes. The university has now put additional security precautions in place to make it more difficult for students to run similar scripts. Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2019 (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/15/computer-program-automatically-registers-students-classes-has-unintended)