Invigilator is an Android application designed to help examiners control the mobile devices of students during tests, assessments, and exams. The system aims to mitigate the risk of cheating.
Online assessment
During the COVID pandemic, many schools, universities, and education centers moved their programs online. This led to the necessity to assess students without them being physically present at the venue. In such conditions, it is very easy to cheat during the examination.
To address this issue, Back Alley Technology created Invigilator. Before the test, exam, or another type of assessment starts, every student must register by providing their name along with several selfies and other info. After that, the system will generate a unique reference number. Further, the app monitors and verifies students during the course of the examination.
Conveniently enough, examiners are able to implement various risk mitigating tools and restrictions. This allows better reaching the desired level of mobile phone proctoring.
Potential issues
However, many users complain about the application not working correctly. There are reports about problems with uploading files and periodic sign-out. Moreover, despite generating a reference number, the system sometimes fails to register students correctly. This may obviously lead to failed exams.
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Features
- provides virtual surveillance for non-venue-based exams and assessments;
- several risk mitigation tests available for examiners;
- registration takes a rather long time from students;
- app is free to download and use;
- compatible with current versions of Android.
