Someone is at the desk
Raises an event when the candidate leaves the frame, turns away for a sustained period, or a second face appears.
fcProctor · Remote exam invigilation
Overview
Every seat in the room, wherever the room is.
Instructions
fcProctor supervises the sitting, not the student's life. AI monitoring, device lockdown and a complete evidence trail — so a remote exam stands up to the same scrutiny as one held in the hall.
Seating plan — BSC-2041 Financial Accounting II
Hall A · 142 candidates · Final
Fits the stack you already run
Microsoft Entra ID · Moodle LMS · Windows & macOS · Browser
1The problem
Remote exams rarely fail on the technology. They fail on the paper trail.
When a result is appealed, someone has to produce what happened at that desk, at that minute. A recording nobody can search is not evidence. fcProctor is built around the record first, and the monitoring second.
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(a)
Evidence
One record per candidate, per sitting
Captures, events and reviewer decisions land in one place instead of four.
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(b)
Verdict
Two verdicts, and no unexplained middle
Every detection resolves to cleared or flagged. Nothing sits unresolved.
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(c)
Attribution
Named reviewers
Role-based access means each decision is attributable to a person who held the permission.
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(d)
Deployment
Your tenant
Deploy into infrastructure your institution controls, in the country you need it.
2How it works
Invigilation is three jobs, not one.
The hall version has always been three jobs: check who walked in, watch the room, then write up anything that happened. fcProctor keeps the same shape.
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(a)
Before
Seat the candidate
Enrolment, identity and a device that is ready — settled before the paper opens rather than during it.
- Candidates sign in with the institution's Microsoft account
- Photo identity check against the enrolment record
- Camera, microphone and resolution checked to your minimum
- Rosters pulled from Moodle, so no separate list to maintain
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(b)
During
Watch the room
The exam client locks the machine down and the monitors run continuously against your policy.
- Face, second-person, object and voice detection
- Screen recording, screen sharing and second displays blocked
- Copy, paste and keyboard shortcuts disabled
- Forbidden applications refused before the paper opens
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(c)
After
Write it up
Reviewers work a queue of flagged moments instead of scrubbing hours of footage.
- Jump straight to the capture that triggered each event
- Mark cleared or flagged, with the decision attributed
- Export a per-candidate report for the board of examiners
- Session evidence retained on your own retention schedule
Continued
3Monitoring
Six things the client is watching for.
Each monitor is a separate switch. Turn on what your regulations require and leave the rest off — a take-home essay does not need the same rules as a professional board exam.
FAC-01 · Face detection
FAC-02 · Face recognition
It is the right someone
Matches the live feed against the identity captured at check-in, so a substitution partway through the paper is caught.
OBJ-01 · Object detection
Nothing is in reach that should not be
Flags phones, tablets, second screens and printed material entering the camera's view.
AUD-01 · Noise detection
The room is quiet
Detects speech and conversation in the candidate's environment without keeping a transcript of it.
SCR-01 · Display integrity
One screen, not mirrored
Blocks screen recording and screen sharing, and refuses the session when a duplicated or extended display is present.
KEY-01 · Input restrictions
The machine stays in the exam
Disables copy, paste and keyboard shortcuts, and shuts the camera off the moment the sitting ends.
4Evidence
A queue of moments, not hours of footage.
Capture is only useful if a human can act on it in the days between the paper and the board. Every event points at the exact frame that produced it.
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(a)
4 types
Four kinds of capture
Webcam stills, webcam video, screenshots and screen recording, all timestamped against the same session clock.
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(b)
Automatic
Classified as it arrives
Each capture carries its detection result, so the review queue opens on the moments that need a person.
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(c)
Per reviewer
Decisions are attributable
Cleared or flagged, by a named reviewer holding the permission to make that call.
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(d)
Export
Reports the board can read
Per-candidate and per-cohort summaries that go into an academic integrity file without rework.
Review queue · BSC-2041 · 4 open
| Seat | Event | At | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| C-01 | Phone in frame | 10:52:14 | Flagged |
| A-04 | Second face | 10:47:03 | Flagged |
| B-02 | Candidate away | 10:44:39 | In review |
| A-03 | Voice detected | 10:41:56 | Cleared |
| B-04 | Identity check | 10:02:11 | Cleared |
5Administration
Set the policy once. Override it where a person needs you to.
Examinations offices do not run one rule for everybody. Accessibility arrangements, resits and professional board papers all need different settings, and the platform should not fight that.
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(a)
Registry
Institution-wide defaults
One proctoring policy covering every sitting, editable without a release.
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(b)
Per candidate
Per-candidate overrides
Relax or tighten individual controls for a named candidate, with the reason on the record.
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(c)
RBAC
Roles that match your org chart
Registry, faculty, invigilator and IT each see exactly the screens their role permits — and nothing else.
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(d)
Synced
Moodle stays the source of truth
Courses and enrolments sync automatically, so the exam list is never rekeyed.
Proctoring policy · Default · applied to 142 candidates
| Control | State | Control | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face detection | On | Prevent screen recording | On |
| Face recognition | On | Prevent multiple displays | Off |
| Object detection | On | Block copy and paste | On |
| Noise detection | On | Disable camera when not in use | On |
Policy set institution-wide, then overridden per candidate where an access arrangement requires it.
6Privacy
Proportionate by construction.
Students accept invigilation. What they object to is software that keeps watching after the paper is over. These are design decisions, not settings we hope you find.
The camera closes with the paper
The exam client releases the camera the moment the sitting ends. No background access between exams, on a device the student also uses for everything else.
Your identity provider, not ours
Candidates and staff sign in through Microsoft Entra ID. fcProctor never stores a password, and access follows the account lifecycle you already manage.
Least privilege, failing closed
Every screen and endpoint is gated on an explicit permission. A role without the permission is refused by default rather than allowed by oversight.
Retention you set
Session evidence lives for as long as your academic integrity policy requires, then goes. Deployed into your own infrastructure and data region.
7Pricing
Priced per sitting, because that is how exams happen.
Nobody proctors in January and June at the same rate. You pay for candidate sittings, not for seats sitting idle between exam periods. Talk to us and we will quote against your real timetable.
Department
Faculty
Per candidate sitting
For a single school or department running its own remote assessments.
- Full monitoring and lockdown
- Review queue and per-candidate reports
- Entra ID sign-in
- Email support
Most institutions
Institution
Annual licence + sittings
For a whole university or college, with the registry running policy centrally.
- Everything in Faculty
- Moodle course and enrolment sync
- Roles, permissions and per-candidate overrides
- Branded desktop client
- Onboarding and exam-period support
Regulated
Awarding body
Custom
For professional boards and certification bodies with an audit obligation.
- Everything in Institution
- Deployment in your own data region
- Custom retention and export
- Named implementation lead and SLA
✓End of paper
Bring one paper. We will run it with you.
A demo is a real sitting on your own timetable — your rules, your Moodle course, a handful of staff as candidates. Thirty minutes, and you will know whether this survives your next exam period.