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# Proctoring

> Supervise online quizzes with in-browser proctoring - camera and screen consent, live face and behaviour monitoring, configurable anomaly responses, and a teacher review of snapshots and recordings per student attempt.

Proctoring lets you run a quiz online while keeping it honest. When a quiz is proctored, the student's camera and screen are monitored in the browser during the attempt, suspicious behaviour is detected and recorded, and afterwards you review the captured snapshots and video per student. It all runs in the browser: there is nothing for the student to install.

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## Who Uses This Feature

| Role                        | What They Do                                                                                |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Teacher**                 | Marks a quiz as proctored, sets what is monitored, and reviews flagged attempts afterwards. |
| **Classroom Administrator** | Configures proctoring options and manages proctoring across classes.                        |
| **Student**                 | Grants camera and screen access, then takes the quiz under monitoring.                      |

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## Before You Start

You need:

* A **quiz** set up as an activity in the class (see [Quizzes and Question Bank](/education/e-classroom/quizzes))
* The quiz marked as **proctored**, with the monitoring options chosen
* A student on a device with a **working camera** and a browser that can share its screen and enter fullscreen

<Info>
  Proctoring is browser-based. A student does not install anything, but they must allow camera and screen access when prompted, and stay in fullscreen for the duration of the attempt.
</Info>

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## What Proctoring Monitors

When a quiz is proctored, you choose which checks are active. Each one watches for a specific kind of behaviour and raises an anomaly when it happens.

| Monitoring option     | What it detects                                                 |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Face presence**     | The student's face leaves the camera view (No Face Detected).   |
| **Multiple faces**    | More than one face appears in the camera view (Multiple Faces). |
| **Tab changes**       | The student switches to another browser tab.                    |
| **Window blur**       | The quiz window loses focus (the student clicks away).          |
| **Copy and paste**    | The student tries to copy, cut, or paste.                       |
| **Right click**       | The student opens the right-click menu.                         |
| **Fullscreen exit**   | The student leaves fullscreen mode.                             |
| **Developer tools**   | Browser developer tools are opened.                             |
| **Multiple monitors** | An extended or second display is detected.                      |

Face presence and multiple-face checks use a sensitivity setting, so a brief look away does not immediately trigger an anomaly: the face must be absent (or a second face present) beyond the configured threshold.

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## How the Student Experiences a Proctored Quiz

<Steps>
  <Step title="Consent screen">
    Before the quiz starts, the student sees a consent screen stating that the quiz is proctored. They must grant camera access and share their entire screen, then the quiz enters fullscreen.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Monitoring during the attempt">
    A small camera overlay shows the student their own webcam. Face detection and the behaviour checks run continuously, and the screen is captured periodically.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Anomaly response">
    When an anomaly is detected, the configured response happens: a warning with a snapshot capture, or termination of the attempt (immediately, or after a set number of warnings).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Submission">
    The student submits as normal. Their attempt, snapshots, and recording are attached for review.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  Proctoring captures the student's camera and screen. Tell students in advance that a quiz is proctored, make sure they consent on the consent screen, and confirm your institution's policy on capturing and retaining this footage before you enable it.
</Warning>

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## Proctoring Options

You decide how strict a proctored quiz is. The options a teacher or administrator sets:

### Field Guide - Proctoring options

| Option                      | Description / Purpose                                                              |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Enforce fullscreen**      | Require the quiz to run in fullscreen and flag any exit.                           |
| **Detect face presence**    | Watch for the student's face leaving the camera.                                   |
| **Detect multiple faces**   | Watch for more than one person on camera.                                          |
| **Detect tab changes**      | Flag switching to another browser tab.                                             |
| **Detect window blur**      | Flag the quiz window losing focus.                                                 |
| **Detect copy and paste**   | Flag copy, cut, and paste attempts.                                                |
| **Detect right click**      | Flag opening the right-click menu.                                                 |
| **Detect developer tools**  | Flag opening browser developer tools.                                              |
| **Block multiple monitors** | Flag a second or extended display.                                                 |
| **Anomaly action**          | What happens on an anomaly: warn and capture a snapshot, or terminate the attempt. |
| **Maximum warnings**        | How many warnings are allowed before the attempt is terminated.                    |

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## Reviewing Proctored Attempts

After a proctored quiz, you review what was captured on the Proctor Review page.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Proctor Review">
    Go to `/classroom/{code}/activity/{activity}/proctor`.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a student">
    Attempts are grouped by student, newest first. Choose a student to see their attempts.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review snapshots">
    Step through the captured snapshots for the attempt, including those taken when an anomaly fired.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Watch the recording">
    Switch to the video view to watch the recorded screen and camera chunks for the attempt.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Decide">
    Use what you see to judge the attempt: accept the result, or follow it up under your integrity policy.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bizaxloptimizationsllp/images/placeholder-proctor-review.png" alt="Proctor Review page showing students grouped in a sidebar, with a selected student's snapshot gallery and a video playback tab" />
</Frame>

Snapshots and recordings are private: they are visible only to teachers and administrators, and are served through short-lived links rather than public URLs.

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## Upstream and Downstream

* **Upstream (must exist first)**: a quiz set up as a proctored activity; a student device with a camera and screen-share support.
* **Downstream (this enables)**: snapshots and recordings on the Proctor Review page, which support your decision on each attempt and, in turn, the quiz result that feeds the [grade](/education/e-classroom/grading).

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## Best Practices

* Announce that a quiz is proctored before students begin, and explain the camera and screen requirements.
* Turn on only the checks you need: enabling every option can produce noisy warnings on legitimate behaviour.
* Set the anomaly action and maximum warnings to match how strict the assessment needs to be, rather than terminating on the first minor anomaly.
* Review snapshots and the recording before acting on a flag: an anomaly is a prompt to look, not a verdict on its own.
* Confirm your data-retention and consent policy for captured footage before enabling proctoring at scale.