Students cheating and filming with smart glasses
Students are using wearable devices like Ray-Ban Meta glasses to covertly record, FaceTime during lessons, and cheat on exams. This completely bypasses standard classroom phone bans and leaves teachers unable to monitor or prevent unauthorized recording.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Confiscating devices if allowed by school policy or state lawDid this help you?
- 2Putting smart devices and phones into pouches at the start of the dayDid this help you?
- 3Using painters tape to cover the camera while in classDid this help you?
- 4Turning the device off manually before having private conversations or using the bathroom, and relying on the student to remind teachers to turn it back on.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Yesterday, we found out that at several students have been using the Ray Ban Meta glasses to cheat.”source ↗
“I had a problem with a student who would regularly FACETIME her mom from class, just to chat!”source ↗
“I’m kinda mortified now thinking about the few times I have left it on and been at my desk working, muttering to myself, or let out a quiet burp when drinking my Diet Pepsi lol. 💀”source ↗
“I’m honestly just curious what level of noise it picks up? I wear it and turn it on, but I also have been turning it off when I have private convos with other students about their grades etc. because I’m not sure how much it picks up on?”source ↗
“Sometimes I forget to turn it back on though and I feel bad”source ↗
Where this came up
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