Remote proctoring for Certification & High Stakes: Cost-effective, convenient, secure.
Remote proctoring provides greater convenience to your candidates while maintaining security and integrity. Roll out in days, not months, using our on-demand live proctoring services.
What is remote proctoring?
Remote proctoring refers to the process of monitoring an examinee while they take the test, to ensure that they meet the integrity and security rules for the test. These rules can vary widely, just as the stakes of the test can vary widely. For this reason, there are actually 4 different types of remote proctoring, as outlined below.
Our experts can help you select the appropriate approach for your exams, as well as guide you in the establishment of rules, documentation, and practice tests. Moving from in-person exams to online remote-proctored testing is welcomed by candidates due to the increased convenience, and is now an accepted way of delivering tests, even high-stakes certification exams.
Option 1: Record and Review
Publish your exams and set them up for Record and Review remote proctoring. This facilitates testing from anywhere and anytime, on demand. Candidates simply show up and take the test whenever they feel like it (within your availability window), and the video is recorded. This makes it extremely flexible, easy to implement, and validates examinee results.
The examinee’s webcam and screen are recorded during the test process, and these videos are reviewed within 48 hours by our trained proctor team.
This approach is best suited for medium-stakes exams such as recertification.
Option 2: Live and On-Demand
Need to deliver certification exams with greater reach? You need the added security of a real human proctor in real time. You send examinees to our Live RP login page where they can take the test. The proctor will verify their identity and exam title, establish rules, set up a second camera (tablet or phone), and help the candidate log into the test.
This approach, via our partnership with MonitorEDU, is also beneficial in that it requires no downloads, no prescheduling, no automated emails, no API setup – just quick, easy, and secure exam delivery.
Option 3: AI Flagging
This approach augments the Record & Review approach with artificial intelligence flagging.
The recorded videos are scanned for common threats, such as extra audio voices or 2 faces being present in the frame. These are flagged as red or yellow stripes in the playback bar (see image on right).
Your proctors or ours can then review and easily flag potential issues.
This approach is highly scalable and cost-effective – perfect for medium-stakes exams like pre-employment.
Option 4: Bring Your Own Proctor
This style of remote proctoring entails you training your own internal staff to serve as proctors, using our software. This provides a flexible and cost-effective approach, especially if, for example, you are utilizing university staff which is already “paid” and therefore you are not paying external remote proctors. It also allows you to customize the proctoring process to other languages or specific situations.
The audio/video streams and chat will be saved for review later, in case there are infractions.
Scalable and Cost-Effective – Even if you only do 50 exams
“Working with FastTest and MonitorEDU has been game-changing for our certification program – especially after the disruption caused by the pandemic.
While most programs using traditional testing centers had to terminate their examination delivery process, we were able to continue with our computer-based examinations through remote proctoring.
FastTest and MonitorEDU have provided a simple end-to-end solution for our candidates and we couldn’t be more grateful for our partnership.”
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