The pandemic-led closure of schools helped promulgate the concept of online education and therefore made online examinations inevitable. However, conducting an online exam is pretty challenging, especially considering the potential room it creates to indulge in various malpractices.

In situations like these, deploying an online examination software with an online exam proctoring feature helps. It simplifies conducting online examinations, enhances their competence, and helps proctors keep a continuous watch on students to avoid malpractices during the examination. Let’s see how.

What is Online Exam Proctoring?

Conventionally, we all have been used to supervisors roaming around the class monitoring every student, and keeping a close watch to avoid or catch cheating. Remote Proctoring derives inspiration from traditional supervision, with the only difference here being that it is online. Here, you wouldn’t have a physical proctor monitoring students but an intelligent system that monitors students every moment throughout the exam.

Now, why did we use the word intelligent? It is because the system captures multiple images and records a video, which is viewed later by a human invigilator. In some cases, an online proctor supervises every movement through a webcam and can step in case they find anything suspicious. Accordingly, let’s look at a few types of online exam proctoring to get a better understanding of how it helps simplify online examinations. 

Types of Online Exam Proctoring and How They Simplify Exams?

Let’s look at a few types of remote examination proctoring techniques.

• Live Online Proctoring

Live proctoring replicates a live conventional examination setting, with the only difference here that the invigilator supervises the examination remotely. The online proctor watches students during the examination through a webcam. It involves live video and audio monitoring and flagging of the use of unidentified devices and suspicious movements of hands, eyes, or other body parts. Live proctoring is effective as it involves real-time supervision of students and paves the way to timely intervention.

• Subsequent Proctoring

Subsequent proctoring involves capturing logs and images and recording a video. Supervisors then watch the video to catch any malpractice or suspicious activity. They decide based on the video recording and validate a particular student’s participation based on the recordings. 

• Automated Proctoring

Automated proctoring eliminates the need to involve a physical supervisor to monitor every activity during the examination. It comprises computer software to detect instances of malpractices or cheating. It also keeps track of opening websites other than required, identifies the presence of other people in the room, suspicious movements, etc., and raises timely alerts for the concerned authorities to review the instance.

Online exam proctoring ensures individual monitoring, which, in a way, is more effective than having an onsite invigilator, who may not be able to keep a close watch on every student at every moment of the examination. As a result, it makes conducting an Online assessment platform more straightforward and improves their competence.

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EDOFOX’s best online exam software offers an in-built remote proctoring feature. It enables educators to monitor student activities during the examinations and enhance their credibility. The software provides several other features that make conducting and attending an online exam a seamless experience. To know more about remote proctoring and other features of EDOFOX’s online exam software, call +91 7350182285.