Exams & Credentials
Proctoring in exams
Camera and behaviour monitoring during an online exam — what is recorded and why is stated openly beforehand; incidents are always reviewed by a person, never by a machine.
A cosa serve#
A certificate is only worth as much as the exam behind it. Proctoring shows that the person was examined themselves — with as little data as possible and without an automatic verdict.
Come funziona#
Percorso di clicStart examTransparency noticeAgree
- 1Before the exam, “Before the exam — what we record and why.” appears with the three points webcam images, tab switches and full screen, plus storage, access and “Your right” (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1 The students' view: consent and identity check, each with its status. - 2“Agree — start exam →” or “Rather not now”.
- 3Identity check: “A photo as proof.” — look into the camera, “Take photo”, if necessary “Again”, then “Confirm photo”. The image is linked to the certificate, not public.
- 4During the exam: photos at intervals, switching to another tab or window is noted; the stricter level adds mandatory full screen, copy lock and face detection (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2 A proctored session: integrity score as a triage hint, the incident timeline and the human review under the four-eyes principle. - 5The administration opens “Proctoring”: the last 200 events of all exams and above them “For review” — transcripts with incidents that await a decision.
- 6For each transcript “Release” or “Hold back”, always with a justification (at least 10 characters); the student may read it later.
Impostazioni e interruttori#
- Attivabile per clientePredefinito: attivoModulo: Prüfungsaufsicht
- Off: no consent, no camera — for every course of this tenant.
- There are three levels per exam session: without proctoring, light (photos and focus changes) and strict (additionally full screen, copy lock, face detection, pause after three violations).
- The module “Exam proctoring” requires the module “Exams”.
What is noted#
- Tab switch and leaving the window
- Leaving full screen (strict level)
- Attempt to copy or paste (strict level)
- Several faces or no face (twice in a row) — strict level, checked every minute
- Camera photo — every five minutes
Every event has a severity: info, warning or critical. Photos are info — they are the material of a review, not its cause.
No incident is judged by a machine#
The platform counts, it does not judge: if there are observations of the level warning or critical, the transcript is issued but does not count as proctored — until a person has looked at it and released it with their name and a justification. If there are none, there is nothing to review.
An automatic assessment of exam behaviour would be a high-risk system under the European AI Act; a counter that calls a person is not. A guard in the code ensures that the release can only arise at these two places.
The page “Proctoring” in the administration#
- Key figures: events (last 200), warnings, critical, photos
- “For review” — waiting transcripts with “Release” and “Hold back”
- “Event stream” — the events with severity; one click opens the session
Who may do what#
The page is opened by a tenant's administration (examinations office) for incidents of its own students — every query is bound to the tenant boundary — and by the operator for all.
Suggerimenti#
- Photos are stored in the EU, kept for 90 days and then deleted automatically. Only the exam board has access, in case of review — no passing on, no evaluation by AI without cause.
- The identity check can be skipped (“Continue without identity check”); this is then stated on the credential.
- If the browser cannot detect faces, this is noted — the session then counts as not monitored, not as unremarkable.
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Funzioni correlate#
- ExamsCreate, release, take and evaluate exams — multiple-choice exam, written exam with free text or topics for papers.
- Certificates & transcriptsTamper-proof certificates and transcripts with a QR code — anyone can verify them without an account.
- Data protection: deletion calendar, dry run and reportDeletion requests, their records and the data held back because of retention obligations — with a deletion calendar, a dry run beforehand and a regular report to the data protection officer.
- AI on the platform — what it may and may not doAI writes suggestions, presents courses and answers questions — labelled, bound to sources and with fixed limits: it does not assess exam behaviour and decides nothing that a person must decide.
Approfondimenti
- Data protection for learning platforms: DPA and transfersWhat to check with learning platforms: roles, processing agreements under Article 28 GDPR, third-country transfers, learning data and proctoring.
- Studying online: how it works and what mattersHow an online degree is structured, how teaching and examinations work digitally, how to recognise a reputable programme and what students should bring.
- Digital exam management: from scheduling to certificateDigital examination management: registration, assessment types, grading with AI suggestions, proctoring, transcripts and verifiable degree certificates.