Online Course Proctoring

Careful consideration should go into the decision to use proctoring as part of your online or blended courses. Proctoring requires additional planning and preparation for both instructors and students, can be seen as invasive by students, and can involve issues of equity as well.

Proctoring is generally only recommended for high-stakes testing situations. Instructors are encouraged to consider alternative options for ensuring academic integrity in their online courses prior to deciding to use the proctoring service. A variety of alternative tools are available to LUC faculty to help ensure academic integrity in online or blended courses: a range of alternative assessment strategies is available in OOL's  and instructional designers in the Office of Online Learning are available to consult with faculty about alternatives to proctored testing. 

If you feel proctoring is the best strategy for ensuring the academic integrity of a particular assessment, Examity, which offers live proctoring but incurs additional fees to departments, can also be used; instructors interested in Examity should reach out to the Office of Online Learning at online@luc.edu to learn more.

Examity incurs additional expense to an instructor's department and charges per student for each exam proctored. Instructors can learn more about using Examity and the associated costs by reaching out to the Office of Online Learning at online@luc.edu. 

Instructors who choose to use Examity are expected to perform the following duties:

• Meet with a representative from the Office of Online Learning to discuss proctoring recommendations.
• Attend an Examity training session to learn to use the system.
• Receive departmental approval for the necessary funds to proctor their exam.
• Set up Examity in Sakai and enter the exam settings and rules within the Examity system.
• Inform students that they will be proctored as part of taking your online course and let them how the system will work (or direct them to this information).
• Review all flagged testing sessions to determine if academic integrity violations actually occurred. 
• Inform students about confirmed violations and take appropriate actions based on university and course policies.

Currently, Examity is available to instructors for proctoring tests and exams remotely. Examity has varying levels of proctoring available, including live proctoring. Please note that the use of Examity will incur additional expenses to an instructor's department. To use Examity, instructors must reach out to the Office of Online Learning at online@luc.edu by the dates outlined below.