Creating an online exam is easy. Keeping it honest is the hard part. That is where exam proctoring comes in: the exam runs in a controlled environment and the school gets signals about unusual behavior during the test.

How Proctored Online Exams Work

1. Readiness Check

Before the exam starts, the student's device is checked: camera access, browser support, and connection. Problems are found before the timer begins, not in the middle of the exam.

2. Fullscreen Exam Mode

The exam runs in a dedicated fullscreen exam runner, so students stay inside the exam instead of a normal browser tab with other pages open.

3. Camera and Browser Monitoring

The system watches camera signals and browser behavior such as leaving the tab or losing window focus, and records them as events.

4. Autosave

Answers are saved automatically as students work, with a visible status confirming when the server has received them. If browser storage is available, unsynced drafts can be recovered in the same browser and device and synced while time remains. The server sets the deadline; reloading the page does not restart the timer. Only answers received before the deadline are graded. After submission, students can verify the attempt number and the time the server received their submission.

5. Risk Report for Teachers

Teachers get a risk timeline per student. It shows what happened and when, so a human can review it and decide, instead of the system judging on its own.

What to Look For in Exam Proctor Software

  • Does it check readiness before the exam, not only during?
  • Does it save answers automatically and recover from disconnections?
  • Are the risk signals clear enough for teachers to review fairly?
  • Is it connected to your question bank, class lists, and grades, or a separate tool?
  • Does it work on the devices your students actually own?

Exam Proctor in NuSakola

NuSakola's Exam Proctor is a dedicated exam runner connected to the academics module, so exams, classes, and grades stay in one system. Book a free demo to see the exam flow from both the student and teacher side.