When configuring your exam in Honorlock, you can enable specific proctoring guidelines. These guidelines are used by the proctors when reviewing your students in their exams. If a faculty member provides no testing guidelines, our proctors will abide by the following proctoring guidelines: Testing Area​:  Lighting in the room must be bright enough to show the student's face and the surrounding area in a clear and detailed manner.  Students should be seated at a desk or table.

Please Note: The Bypass Pin is unique to each exam and is only available with native LMS exams (not third party exams). Please reach out to your Honorlock Customer Success Manager to retrieve the pin.  To promote our mission to serve all students, Honorlock has an accessibility code to bypass Honorlock proctoring when necessary. This code should only be input by a faculty member or proctor to maintain the exam's integrity.

This article is to make you aware of the improvements and updates being made to the in-exam Camera Blade on February 10, 2022. Improvements have been made to the look and feel of the following screens for exam takers: Payment Option, Privacy Details, Multiple Monitors Detected, ID Verification, Browser Guard, Desktop Application, Room Scan, Screen Recording, and Authentication. Images of the new screens are included below. We hope with these updates, exam takers will have a smoother exam taking experience.

Below is sample verbiage you can include in your syllabus to provide students a basic understanding of what Honorlock is and how it will be utilized in your course. You're welcome to customize and expand upon this for your courses. Honorlock will proctor your exams this semester. Honorlock is an online proctoring service that allows you to take your exam from the comfort of your home. You DO NOT need to create an account or schedule an appointment in advance.

Student privacy is extremely important to Honorlock online proctoring. When institutions introduce a new online proctoring service, students may have questions and concerns that surround their privacy. We want to prepare you and your faculty with the necessary resources to assist students with addressing these concerns and ensure you have the materials to share with your students. Student Privacy Statement Student Privacy Video A Message to Students New to Online Proctoring and Remote Proctoring

What is Browser Guard?  Browser Guard is an Honorlock feature that provides enhanced exam security. It can be turned on with a simple click of a toggle in your Honorlock exam settings. When enabled, Browser Guard will prevent your students from accessing websites or browser tabs, using other applications, or resizing the test page window to less than 90% of the screen. Please note that due to some device limitations, Browser Guard will work to varying degrees.

Below is a running list of information regarding any customer-facing Honorlock releases:  Version 7.15.0 (Web App) + Version 6.6.0 (Extension) May 23, 2023 Honorlock’s new Apple Hand-Off Detection: Our AI detects the presence of the Apple Handoff Icon & proctors observe the session without intervening to determine if a phone is present and being used inappropriately. If the proctor determines the exam taker is using Apple Handoff, they prompt the exam taker to disable handoff to prevent further flags and/or request a roomscan if they see a phone being used.

Our customer success team will be hosting upcoming webinars for any faculty user to attend. All webinars will be recorded and shared via email within one business day of completion, so even if you cannot attend live, you'll receive a copy of the recording.  All times listed below are in Eastern Standard Time. Please click on the hyperlinked title below to register for the webinar you wish to attend:

Online exam proctoring helps improve online teaching and learning for exam takers and administrators. Below is an outline of best practices we recommend following when deciding when and how to use remote proctoring services.  Is proctoring right for your course? Be mindful of the variety of living situations of your students. Honorlock exams can be taken 24/7/365. If you are aware of a student’s situation, you can provide the live test proctor with accommodation instructions that allow other people to be in the room and to expect voices and sound.

There may be times in your course where you allow pen and paper to be used during exams. Test settings, proctor instructions, and test rules/instructions are crucial for proctored online exams that involve handwritten components. Below are recommended best practices to follow to ensure a smooth experience for exam takers and exam administrators when scratch paper allowed is toggled on. Using the Additional Instructions section, in your HL Exam Settings, use the applicable guidelines listed below and edit accordingly: 

This page contains a templated remote proctoring policy that can be copied and tailored to suit your needs. The template below contains all the information needed to help inform exam administrators and exam takers about remote proctoring, what it is, how it works, and what to expect. Swap your information (institution name & abbreviation, etc.) out with the italicized text. Remote proctoring policy Academic integrity speaks to the reputation of Full Institution Name (Institution Abbreviation).

The most common incidents of academic dishonesty today relate to exam takers using a secondary device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop to search test questions and answers. There are multiple ways Honorlock is able to detect and discourage the use of secondary devices.  Multi-Device Detection was developed to detect secondary devices.  Here’s what happens when an exam taker does a search for a test question on a secondary device:

Honorlock’s entire mission and product are built on equity. Honorlock provides every student with a fair and equitable assessment opportunity to demonstrate their course mastery, and ultimately, succeed. By effectively securing the testing environment, we are blocking the opportunity for students to use ChatGPT. Features that prevent the use of ChatGPT: All of the settings below can be set in the Proctoring Settings for your exams.  Our copy/paste detection feature ensures exam takers can’t copy & paste ChatGPT responses into their exams, while our BrowserGuard prevents them from even accessing the ChatGPT website.

Honorlock makes sure that tools like Transcript are not accessible during exams, securing the test environment and preventing academic violations. Honorlock is the ultimate solution to ensure a fair testing environment for all exam takers.  Honorlock Prevents the Use of Chrome Extensions Honorlock has implemented Extension Detection technology, how it works:  Honorlock is now logging installed and active extensions at the start of an exam session. At the start of an exam, the exam taker will be notified (image example is below) to disable any unauthorized extensions.

Apple’s Handoff feature allows Apple users to synchronize their work across their devices. This feature concerns exam administrators because exam takers can search a question on their phone and then connect that search to their laptop during an exam.  Honorlock is the only online proctoring company detecting device sharing apps like Apple Handoff. This feature was requested by current customers so that we can see if a mobile phone is in the vicinity of the exam taking place.