Secure online remote proctoring: Ensuring integrity and fairness in assessments
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What is online proctoring?
Online proctoring monitors and supervises candidates during the pre-employment or upskilling assessment. Online proctored exam use audio, video, and artificial intelligence technology to ensure the reliability and authenticity of the assessment.
Using online proctoring to enhance people strategies
Our online proctoring tools are designed using artificial intelligence technology to hire the right people in the business.
Verify the authenticity of candidates
Eliminate candidate impersonation using multi-factor and identity authentication.
Regulate the test environment
Monitor the candidate's browser, search engine, data sharing, and external ports.
Proctor candidates remotely
Assess candidates remotely using the detection of speech, movement, and impersonation.
Use the right proctoring strategy
Use the right proctoring combination to assess the right skill set for your business.
Use a secure proctoring platform
Assess candidates using an online proctoring platform recognized globally for data security.
Improve hiring decisions
Improve reliability of assessment and accuracy of cheating evaluation by 98%.
Power your people processes using our proctoring software
Auto proctoring
Use automated image, video, and audio proctoring for reliable assessment outcomes.
Live proctoring
Integrated live human proctoring to ensure the efficiency and authenticity of assessments.
Record and review proctoring
Evaluate assessment reliability and validity using record and review proctoring strategy.
Dual camera proctoring
Provide end-to-end security for your exams with proctoring from all angles with the secondary camera.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1 What to expect from an online test proctoring software?
Usually, an online test proctoring software requires test-takers to show the four walls of their room as the first anti-cheating measure. Identity authentication, testing of device audio and camera, screen sharing and ensuring the absence of additional devices in the room are the measures that follow. During the test, an ideal proctoring software monitors the test-takers' screen activity, locks down web browsers and enables the flagging of suspicious activities to prevent malpractices.
2 What are the top ten benefits of online remote proctoring?
Top ten benefits of online remote proctoring include the following:
- Unbiased evaluations
- Constant and error-free invigilation
- Better time management
- Cost-effectiveness
- Scalability to host exams in multiple geographic locations simultaneously
- Possibility to allow many candidates (even in remote locations) to take the exam on the same day
- Ease of administration and evaluation
- Better coordination and customization options
- Adaptability to multiple question types and exam formats
- Around-the-clock exam scheduling features
3 What are the three main types of monitoring services for proctoring software?
Various types of monitoring services for proctoring software utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure cheating prevention. The three main types of proctored exams are:
- Live online proctoring with a human invigilator monitoring candidates' screens in real-time.
- Recorded online proctoring with AI monitoring, later reviewed by human proctors.
- Advanced online proctoring without any human intervention, where advanced AI monitors and flags suspicious activities to score candidate integrity.
4 What are the dos and don’ts of conducting online proctored exams?
The best practices for conducting online proctored tests include the following:
- Choose a safe online proctored exam platform
- Test the functionality of your system
- Ease students into the system
- Set clear guidelines
- Maintain data privacy
- To ensure successful online proctored tests, it is important to avoid the following mistakes.
- Not offering technical support and live chat/call options to test-takers
- Not sharing guidelines and clear expectations with test takers in advance
- Running the test without any trials or training
- Relying on an outdated audit process
- Setting excessively complex question papers
5 What are the key challenges of remote online exam proctoring?
Remote online exam proctoring can encounter technical problems owing to power cuts, computer malfunction, internet instability or other technical challenges. However, if you choose a reliable platform and proctoring service provider, its customer support team should be able to resolve the said inconveniences promptly and reduce the impact of the challenges. It is essential to overcome them to preserve the integrity of the exam.
6 How do online proctored exams work?
Online proctored exams work by monitoring test-takers' screens. The test takers must switch on their video and audio and verify their identity. They cannot start the exam before validating their ID. After the approval, the remote proctored exam begins, and an AI or a human proctor monitors the exam from start to finish. During the test, an ideal proctoring software monitors the test-takers' screen activity, locks down web browsers and enables the flagging of suspicious activities to prevent malpractices.
7 What is automated online remote monitoring?
Automated online remote monitoring is a proctoring technique that is automated by artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent, detect and gather evidence of any unwanted activity during an online exam.
8 What is the difference between proctored and non-proctored exams?
A proctored exam utilizes AI technology to monitor the test-takers' screen activities. Alternatively, proctored exams could also have a human invigilator remotely supervising the test. A non-proctored exam is unsupervised and allows test takers to complete the test at their chosen time and pace. Proctored exams ensure greater reliability and fairness in the test-taking and evaluation process when compared to non-proctored exams.
