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How to Make a Classroom Desk Privacy Fence

Although schools set expectations for academic honesty by setting ground rules for taking tests, sometimes students are still tempted to cheat. A classroom desk privacy fence or partition can help decrease that temptation. Teachers can have students create their own desk privacy fences using manila folders and tape.

Manila folders (two per student)
Tape

Instructions

- 1
  Hand out two manila folders to each student.
- 2
  Have students place the folders flat on their desks with the folded edges facing the edges of the desk.
- 3
  Ask students to open each folder and slide the tab ends together until they overlap.
- 4
  Pass out tape and have students tape the tab edges together. Then have students turn the folders over and tape the overlapped edges together on the opposite side.
- 5
  Show students how to stand up the desk privacy fence, using the right angles of the two folders to provide support, to protect their papers when taking a test.

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