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# Working with Online Proctoring

Our perspective on online proctoring has evolved. Before modern AI, much of the conversation — and our own emphasis — focused on assessment **design** to reduce the motivation and reward for cheating, and was skeptical of proctoring's overhead and false positives.

**Generative AI changed that calculus.** When a student can get high-quality answers instantly, assessment design alone can't cover every threat. We now see online proctoring as a **necessary complement** to good design — not an alternative to it — for **remote, high-stakes exams**.

That said, proctoring should be **targeted and proportionate**, not blanket surveillance:

* Apply it where it actually matters — especially where **verifying identity** and catching **second-device** use are the real risks.
* Keep it **proportionate to the stakes**, and as **invisible as possible to honest students** — protection shouldn't add anxiety for students doing the right thing.

## How EXAMIND complements proctoring

Design and proctoring solve different halves of the problem:

* **Assessment design reduces the payoff of cheating.** Per-student dynamic variants make shared, leaked, or copied answers worthless in the first place.
* **Proctoring confirms the conditions of the exam.** Its highest-value contributions are **verifying who is taking the exam** and catching the **use of a second device** — threats that assessment design can't see on its own.

Together they cover both the incentive to cheat and the opportunity.

## Using proctoring with EXAMIND

EXAMIND is **compatible with** leading online proctoring tools. This isn't a deep, single-launch integration — it works because of how these tools operate: the proctoring service supervises the session, and students launch the EXAMIND assessment through it (a third-party LTI launch).

* [Proctor with Honorlock](/v1/it-administration/proctoring-integrations/honorlock-integration.md)
* [Proctor with Proctorio](/v1/it-administration/proctoring-integrations/proctorio-integration.md)

See [Proctoring Integrations](/v1/it-administration/proctoring-integrations.md) for setup details. (Interested in a deeper single-launch integration? [Let us know](mailto:support@examind.io).)