Proctoring
Also called: remote invigilation
Supervising an online exam to deter and detect cheating — through camera and screen monitoring, tab-switch detection, or a live invigilator watching.
Automated proctoring produces evidence, not verdicts: a flagged moment is something for a human to review, and treating a flag as proof is how honest candidates get penalised for looking away.
It also carries a privacy cost that has to be disclosed: recording a candidate's camera and screen is personal data, and where that evidence is stored and for how long matters as much as the detection itself.
For example
In a 60-minute exam, the system logs that a candidate switched tabs four times, that a second face appeared in frame at minute 22, and that the camera went dark for 40 seconds at minute 51. None of that is proof of cheating; all of it is evidence for a human to review. Proctoring that auto-fails on flags punishes bad wifi as if it were fraud.
On Prolaud
Proctoring is an optional plugin: it records evidence against a sitting for a human to review, and the evidence is scoped to the academy that ran the exam.
Related terms
- Content protection — Measures that make paid course material harder to copy or redistribute: signed video links, watermarking, download blocking, device limits and, at the strict end, DRM.
- Student record — Everything an academy knows about one learner in one place: enrolments, payments, attendance, submissions, results and credentials.