Norway Tries Administering Final Exams via Laptop

6,000 students in Nord-Trondelag county, which lies in the middle of Norway, have been issued laptops to do their schoolwork. The laptops come with standard software like word processors and calculators, and also course specific software (like Photoshop for the media arts students.)
Now they have begun to give exams on the laptops too. (They've done this already on computers, but the administrators wanted the students to use a machine and software that they were more familiar with.) The students go to a certain website, download their exam, and do it. To prevent cheating, the laptops and the students activities on them while taking the tests on them are heavily monitored with certain sites completely blocked off. The program also acts as a keylogger (which records all the keystrokes made on a computer) and takes screenshots. This can help catch cheating so that the exam is fair for everyone, and it also can help prove to teachers that a students work is their own if suspicion otherwise arrises.

The rest of Norway is currently thinking about adopting this system, and if done, the entire country will be using laptops for tests and in schools.