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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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Assessment Security Is Changing. Is Your Strategy Built for What Is Next?
February 17, 2026
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Assessment security has changed fundamentally. AI-assisted misconduct, global remote testing at scale, rising privacy expectations, and credentials tied to real professional consequence have all shifted the landscape at once. This post traces how assessment delivery has evolved from in-person exams to global remote testing, examines what each shift has required from integrity programs, and makes the case for why a modern assessment security strategy needs layered detection, human judgment, privacy-first design, and a partner built to adapt as the landscape continues to change.
What's Changing in Assessment Security in 2026 (And What Your Program Should Plan For)
January 26, 2025
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For years, the assessment security playbook was simple: secure the exam window, monitor, review incidents, move on. That approach worked until remote testing became standard, AI lowered the barrier to cheating, and credentials started facing real scrutiny from employers and regulators. The instinct to respond by adding more tools has created fragmentation rather than security. This post examines the three shifts that matter most for 2026, what the strongest programs are doing differently, and why assessment security is moving from a moment-in-time monitoring problem to a system-level responsibility that spans preparation, delivery, and defensibility.
What’s Your Assessment Security Plan for 2026?
January 8, 2026
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As online assessment continues to scale, the complexity of protecting exam integrity has grown alongside it. AI misuse, organized cheating schemes, rising privacy expectations, and increased scrutiny around fairness and defensibility are reshaping what effective assessment security really requires. This post examines how leading programs are moving beyond reactive, one-size-fits-all proctoring toward intentional assessment protection strategies built around four principles: designing integrity into the assessment experience, strengthening security without sacrificing privacy, combining technology with human judgment, and delivering outcomes that hold up to scrutiny.
Welcoming Brandon A. Smith as Integrity Advocate’s New CEO
August 26, 2025
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Integrity Advocate announces Brandon A. Smith as its new Chief Executive Officer. Brandon brings extensive experience leading and scaling SaaS platforms across higher education, professional certification, and workforce development. His background in assessment integrity, compliance, and learner success aligns directly with Integrity Advocate's mission to protect the value of credentials while maintaining fairness, accessibility, and privacy for every test-taker.
What Mobile-First Proctoring Means for the Future of Online Training
July 3, 2025
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Frontline workers, remote teams, and field-based professionals cannot wait for a desktop to complete compliance training. Mobile-first proctoring addresses that reality, but mobile access cannot mean compromised security, weaker identity verification, or gaps in compliance records. This post examines who benefits from mobile-first assessment, why browser-based no-install design is essential for both accessibility and security, the compliance implications of BYOD workforces, and how Smart Serve Ontario scaled to handle over 20 times normal test volumes on mobile without a single software installation.
Integrity Advocate Announces Integration with Open LMS
April 4, 2023
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Integrity Advocate has announced a strategic integration with Open LMS, combining identity verification and human-reviewed proctoring with Open LMS's learning management platform. The integration allows educators to deploy proctored assessments directly within Open LMS without additional technical overhead.
Integrity Advocate Announces Integration with Canvas LMS
August 4, 2022
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Integrity Advocate has completed its integration with Canvas LMS, enabling institutions and organizations using Canvas to deploy identity verification, participation monitoring, and online proctoring directly within their existing LMS environment without end user installation requirements.
Modern Threat Detection for Online Exam Integrity
December 19, 2025
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Modern cheating in online assessments does not always look like glancing off-screen or whispering. It is increasingly subtle, technical, and AI-powered, often operating through plugins and browser tools that bypass surface-level monitoring entirely. This post explains how Integrity Advocate's threat detection operates across three layers, environmental signals, behavioral analysis, and on-screen activity, how ExposeAI addresses AI-assisted cheating without overreach, and why human validation of every flagged event is what makes detection fair, accurate, and defensible.
AI and Online Exams: What the Data Reveals About Assessment Security
February 11, 2025
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Large-scale Wiley research surveying more than 2,900 students and instructors across North America reveals that cheating is measurably increasing in online environments, nearly half of students report using generative AI in their coursework, and 86% of instructors say students are more likely to cheat in online courses than in person. This post examines what the data reveals about the current academic integrity landscape, how AI has reshaped the threat model without changing the underlying intent behind misconduct, and how Integrity Advocate's COUNTER-AI approach responds to behavioral patterns rather than chasing specific tools.
