When the first wave of online examinations went live, most institutions discovered that "online" had quietly subtracted half of their integrity controls. The 2026 standard rebuilds those controls, and adds a few that paper exams never had.
The four layers of a credible proctored exam
- Identity, verified through ID document plus live face match before the candidate sees a single question.
- Environment, locked-down browser, camera and microphone monitoring, room scan, and explicit terms-of-conduct.
- Behaviour, gaze tracking, multi-face detection, voice activity, focus loss and tab-switch flags, all logged with timestamps.
- Audit, every flag preserved as evidence, with replay-ready video and a per-candidate attempt report.
The two layers most platforms still get wrong
The first is the audit layer. A flag without a replayable artefact is an opinion, not evidence. The second is result analytics, flags should feed into the result itself, with clear escalation rules, not sit in a separate dashboard that nobody opens.
Yatharth's Online Assessment Solution is built around exactly this architecture, with auto and manual evaluation, digital answer scripts, PDF-based evaluated answer copies and result analytics. We deploy it standalone or as an integrated module of the wider university platform.