To maintain the integrity of students while they are taking exams online, exams can be build in online examination system that provides testing environment monitoring function. Many would like to know how do online examination system work to monitor students’ testing environment? Here is how:
Surveillance Camera
Firstly, surveillance camera is provided. An online exam can be set by administrators with the function of surveillance camera on. Therefore, the whole process of the students’ taking the exam can be monitored by the online examination system and teachers can also view the real-time multi-screen monitoring in the administrator’s backend. Pictures of candidates during the exam can be captured by the system as well; administrators can view the pictures captured by the system to see if there is anything abnormal.
Intelligent Anti-cheating Monitoring
Then, intelligent anti-cheating monitoring is provided by the system, which is really a useful function that can be supplied to monitor students’ testing environment.
(1)After the intelligent anti-cheating monitoring is turned on, multiple faces can be detected by the system. And once the multiple faces are detected more than the times the administrator set, the exam will be ended by the system so the candidates will not be able to continue the exam.
(2)Face matching is also required by the system during the exam to make sure the exam is not taking by the other candidates. To make the function work, face recognition function should be turned on by the administrator. Administrators can upload candidates’ photo first before turn on the intelligent anti-cheating monitoring, so that it will work.
(3)Once the candidates’ behaviors,such as bowing heads, turning their heads and so on are detected by the system more than the times set by the administrator, the paper will be handed in by the system compulsorily.
(4)The sound of the testing environment of candidates can also be detected by the intelligent anti-cheating monitoring function. Administrators can set the sound sensitivity level, and once the sound detected is louder than the set level more than the times set, the exam will be ended automatically by the system.
These are how online examination system works to monitor students’ testing environment to maintain the integrity of the students. To ensure the credibility of the exam, it is rather important for teachers to give an online exam in online examination system with anti-cheating monitoring function. Online Exam Maker is a professional and mature online examination system with anti-cheating monitoring function. It also has many other anti-cheating functions, for example:
- Full screen mode;
- Screen switching limit;
- Interruption limit;
- No copying and pasting;
- Face recognition
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