Proctor exams online

Online proctoring refers to supervision of examinees through their web cameras, microphones, and by sharing their screens during online exams. This can be useful in the following cases:

• College exams
• Professional/certification exams
• Recruitment

Flexible Classroom provides Proctor SDK to implement such supervision. Agora recommends a scenario where one examiner proctors 25 to 50 examinees at the same time. This page illustrates how the proctoring feature works for an examiner and an examinee using the Flexible Classroom web demo.

• Examiner:

  • Appropriate test equipment:
    • Desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or a mobile device
    • Camera and microphone to broadcast to all examinees and transmit video
    • Speaker to monitor the sound of the examinees' environment
    • Chrome browser
  • Stable network connection: The device needs to monitor 6 students, 3 video streams per each at the same time. The recommended downlink bandwidth is 100M or more

• Examinee:

  • Appropriate test equipment:
    • Desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or a mobile device
    • Camera and microphone to monitor the examinee's surrounding environment
    • Chrome browser
  • Stable network connection: The device needs to send a shared screen video at 1080p and a video stream at 240p at the same time. The recommended upstream bandwidth is 20M or more

• Examiner
  • Web
• Examinee
  • Main: Web
  • Secondary: Android, iOS. The secondary camera function is still in the development stage

Available features area:

Role	Feature	Example
Examiner	Broadcast to all	The examiner initiates an all-hands call to examinees
Examiner	Examinee real-time monitoring	Examinees are monitored in real time via their main camera, secondary camera, and screen images
Examiner	Surveillance video wall	The examiner monitors the examinees' behavior via their video streams presented on the examiner's screen
Examiner	Examinee video playback	The examiner records and plays back video taken via the main camera, secondary camera, and screen images of the examinee
Examiner	Examiner/AI abnormal exam situation record	The examiner manually records or the AI automatically records the abnormal situation of the exam (you need to implement it yourself)
Examiner, examinee	Hardware device detection	Microphone, camera, and speakers of the examiner and examinees are detected
Examinee	Screen sharing	Examinees share their screens to prevent cheating. If an examinee turns off screen sharing during the test, the test is suspended
Examinee	Main camera monitoring	Examinee is monitored via their main device camera
Examinee	Secondary camera monitoring	Examinee is monitored via their mobile device camera
Examinee	Online test questions	Examinees answer exam questions presented in the classroom

Examiners supervise examinees during an exam and can pay special attention to those who are suspected of cheating. Examinees take the exam in a fully supervised environment that includes identity verification, streams from primary and secondary camera with sound, and screen sharing.

Take the following steps to join and proctor an exam:

1. Open the Flexible Classroom web demo and click Create to create a room.

   

2. Enter the classroom name, class start and end time, then select Online Proctoring in Class mode and click Create.

   

   In the Flexible Classroom demo, the room creator holds the examiner role by default. You have now successfully created a classroom under the proctoring scenario.

3. Test your hardware before entering the room to ensure that you can monitor the exam.

   

4. Once hardware is successfully tested, click Next step to enter the room. After you enter the room, the exam starts automatically at the preset time. You can also click Start Exam to start the exam manually.

5. During the exam you can see monitor screens, or surveillance walls, for examinees. You can do the following:

   • Switch the layout and filter surveillance walls.

   

   • Broadcast video and audio to all examinees.

   

   • Click the surveillance wall of an examinee to enter the monitoring details page.

   

   On the monitoring details page, you can see the recording view and the monitoring view:

   • The recording view shows the examinee's video and screen recordings from the start of the exam to the current time. You can drag the time axis to jump to a specific time, or click a submitted abnormal event to jump to the time point of the event.

   • The monitoring view shows the real-time video and screen sharing of the examinee. If the examinee demonstrates abnormal exam behavior (cheating), you select the corresponding event and submit it. Preset abnormal events include multiple people on camera, cheat sheets, identity verification, and use of electronic devices. Abnormal events are customizable.

   If there are examinees that you suspect of cheating without solid evidence, you can pay closer attention to them. To do so, click the focus icon on the monitoring details page to add them to the corresponding list. You can then filter surveillance walls in the main proctoring page to show only those that require your special attention.

The test ends automatically when the test time is over, or you can manually click End Test to end the test in advance.

Take the following steps to join and take an exam in a supervised environment:

1. Open the Flexible Classroom web demo and click Join.

   

2. Enter the room ID, select the Student role, and click Join.

   

   In the Flexible Classroom demo, a room joiner holds the examinee role by default.

3. Test your device capabilities before entering the room.

   

4. Once your hardware is successfully tested, click Join Exam. After entering the classroom, you see the exam paper, the video from your main and secondary camera, and the video of your shared screen. You also see the examiner's video when they broadcast.

   

   Your exam paper is automatically displayed at the beginning of the exam and automatically submitted at the end of the exam, unless you submit it manually before that.

5. When the exam is complete, click Leave.