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Integrity Advocate Ranks #1 for Online Proctoring Usability for the Third Consecutive Season
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Integrity Advocate has been ranked #1 for Online Proctoring Usability on G2 for the third consecutive season. Based on verified customer feedback, we also earned five Fall 2026 badges recognizing usability, ease of use, support, and overall leadership.
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OnDemand Webinar: Ensuring Integrity with uXpertise & Integrity Advocate
June 12, 2025
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In June 2025, uxpertise and Integrity Advocate demonstrated how their partnership delivers secure, no-install online proctoring directly within the uxpertise LMS environment. The webinar covered browser-based monitoring capabilities, native bilingual support for French and English assessments, PIPEDA compliance and Canadian data residency, and the performance metrics behind more than 10 million successfully proctored sessions. This recap covers the key highlights for Canadian institutions evaluating remote assessment solutions
ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2024 Is Here. Is Your Training Compliant?
May 15, 2025
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The ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2024 update consolidates in-person and online Safety, Health and Environmental training into a single unified standard for the first time. Organizations can no longer simply assign a course and mark it complete. They must verify who completed the training, confirm active participation, prevent unauthorized assistance, and maintain a record that holds up to regulatory scrutiny. This guide walks safety and compliance teams through what has changed, where most current systems fall short, and how to meet the new standard without overhauling existing infrastructure.
OnDemand Webinar: Improving CEU Integrity in the Age of AI with IACET
December 4, 2024
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In November 2024, Integrity Advocate sat down with IACET president Randy Bowman to discuss how AI tools and GPT-powered plugins are changing the landscape of online continuing education. The conversation covered how emerging technologies compromise the integrity of accreditation standards, how to meet IACET standard 8.1 requirements for learner identity verification, how to document due diligence around genuine participation, and what recent court cases mean for organizational liability when training does not meet IACET standards.
Who Is Liable When Proctoring Goes Wrong? Lessons From Global Legislation and Cases
May 2, 2024
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Courts and regulators across Canada, the EU, and the United States have consistently found that organizations deploying proctoring tools bear liability for how participant data is handled, not the software vendors they use. CASL, GDPR, BIPA, and the Cleveland State Fourth Amendment case all point to the same conclusion: the organization collecting data is the accountable party. This post examines each case and framework and explains what organizations need to do to reduce their exposure.
OnDemand Webinar: Protecting the Integrity of your Licensing Program in the Age of AI
March 25, 2026
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What does it take to protect a licensing program in the age of AI? This on-demand webinar covers the full lifecycle approach, from integration to credential issuance, with CMRAO's real-world results across 2,800+ exams.
Why Online Training Records Are Not Proof of Training
December 16, 2022
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A training completion record proves that a course was accessed. It does not prove who accessed it or whether they engaged with it. The PricewaterhouseCoopers case, in which fines of over one million Canadian dollars were assessed after staff shared answers to internal training courses, demonstrates what happens when organizations cannot verify who actually completed their training. This post examines the regulatory standard, the insurance gap, and how Integrity Advocate helps organizations build training records that hold up to scrutiny.
What a 96% Midterm and a 48.6% Final Exam Reveal About Unproctored Assessments
July 14, 2026
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A welfare economics class at Brown University averaged 96% on a take-home midterm and 48.6% on an in-person final, a historic low for the course. Nineteen students failed. Twenty-two of the forty students who scored a perfect 100 on the midterm did not sit for the final at all. This post examines what the Brown case reveals about the two distinct failures that follow an unmonitored assessment, the upstream detection failure and the downstream adjudication failure, and why the fix is not more automation layered on top of automation but a human reviewer in the loop before a result is finalized.
Where Does Secure Proctoring End and Privacy Invasion Begin?
June 19, 2025
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There is a clear line between oversight and surveillance in online proctoring, and most platforms cross it. When tools collect more data than necessary, require invasive installations, or store sensitive information beyond its purpose, they do not just create privacy exposure. They erode the trust that makes a certification meaningful. This post examines where that line is, why more surveillance does not mean more security, how rising compliance standards like ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2024 define accountability without requiring overcollection, and what privacy-first proctoring actually looks like in practice.
Safety vs. Profit: What the Valor Indictment Says About Online Training
April 23, 2023
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The indictment of Valor Security and Investigations for issuing thousands of fraudulent safety certificates, connected to the death of construction worker Ivan Frias, illustrates what is at stake when safety training is treated as a commodity rather than a genuine investment in worker safety. This post examines the Valor case, the conditions that enabled it, and what verified identity and participation monitoring look like as the standard safety training must meet.
