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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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Payroll Certification Programs Are No Longer Just Delivering Exams. They’re Delivering Trust.
May 10, 2026
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Legacy testing infrastructure puts credential trust at risk. See why payroll certification programs are modernizing, what a "trust engine" looks like, and the real-world results from the National Payroll Institute, including a 57% drop in integrity incidents.
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.
How to Stop Personal Information from Being Stockpiled, Sold, and Hacked
October 18, 2021
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Most proctoring platforms accumulate years of student identity data, session recordings, and behavioral information, and their privacy policies explicitly allow that data to be transferred in a business sale. This post examines the risk of data stockpiling, the 400,000-student breach that demonstrated what happens when that data is targeted, and how Integrity Advocate's data minimization approach eliminates the risk by not holding data that does not need to exist.
How the University College Dublin Achieved a Triple Win with Online Proctoring
August 19, 2020
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When the University College Dublin moved examinations online during the pandemic, they chose to look at the entire assessment process rather than simply adding monitoring to an existing exam format. Working with Integrity Advocate, UCD achieved a triple win: maintained academic integrity, a low-friction student experience, and a manageable implementation for faculty and administration. Fewer than 2% of students required support and there was not a single complaint.
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.
Key Takeaways from the Conference on Test Security (COTS): Balancing Security, Integrity, and Innovation in Testing
November 7, 2025
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The 2025 Conference on Test Security brought together higher education institutions, certification organizations, legal experts, and technology vendors around a shared challenge: maintaining assessment integrity in an AI-driven world. Integrity Advocate CEO Brandon Smith shares his key takeaways, covering the growing non-negotiability of exam validity and security, the evolving legal landscape around misconduct and civil disputes, the uneven ethical rigor of AI tools in assessment, and the increasingly critical balance between test security and learner privacy.
Support That Scales: Proctoring Built for Any Device, Anywhere, Anytime
July 15, 2025
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When a national safety organization faces a recertification deadline that sends training volumes 20 times above normal, with learners logging in from job sites, personal phones, and areas with limited bandwidth, the proctoring platform either holds or it does not. This post examines what breaks when training infrastructure cannot scale, the real-world cost of downtime and failed identity checks in mission-critical industries, and how Integrity Advocate supports high-volume rollouts without service disruption, software installation, or a spike in support demand.
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.
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
