> During the test, the student is only working on the test, which is not private or secret.
You fail to consider the circumstances in which the test takes place. Students take the test in their personal spaces, and earlier in the thread, you mentioned essentially inspecting a student's living space (...angle of camera, light, checking environment, etc...) "Checking environment" is really just a cold, "process" word for inspecting a student's living space.
A student's room can often have private or secret things about them. Before you ask, not every student has the privilege to use a separate, clean, blank room to take tests. A personal space is inevitably going to have personal, private things. I've brought this up before; I personally know friends who were outed to professors as trans because their personal space has things like needles - and then you even have stuff like naive professors assuming "drugs" when its really just medications.
It could be anything else besides that, in fact - calendars with things scribbled on them; family photos; posters for political organizations; if you look in someone's bedroom, you're inevitably going to find out things about them that they would rather you not know.
Would you take your students on a tour of your bedroom while you're teaching an online class?
EDIT: In addition, there's non-traditional students and high risk students, and interruptions in general - there's not _only_ a test going on - I've had someone from my family interrupted in the middle of an exam because someone from the government knocked the door to take our temperatures and ensure we're healthy and don't have COVID. There's always more things going on, too.
You fail to consider the circumstances in which the test takes place. Students take the test in their personal spaces, and earlier in the thread, you mentioned essentially inspecting a student's living space (...angle of camera, light, checking environment, etc...) "Checking environment" is really just a cold, "process" word for inspecting a student's living space.
A student's room can often have private or secret things about them. Before you ask, not every student has the privilege to use a separate, clean, blank room to take tests. A personal space is inevitably going to have personal, private things. I've brought this up before; I personally know friends who were outed to professors as trans because their personal space has things like needles - and then you even have stuff like naive professors assuming "drugs" when its really just medications.
It could be anything else besides that, in fact - calendars with things scribbled on them; family photos; posters for political organizations; if you look in someone's bedroom, you're inevitably going to find out things about them that they would rather you not know.
Would you take your students on a tour of your bedroom while you're teaching an online class?
EDIT: In addition, there's non-traditional students and high risk students, and interruptions in general - there's not _only_ a test going on - I've had someone from my family interrupted in the middle of an exam because someone from the government knocked the door to take our temperatures and ensure we're healthy and don't have COVID. There's always more things going on, too.