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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: 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.
Safety Mentor and Integrity Advocate Are Teaming Up to Improve Continuing Education Programming
September 25, 2024
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Safety Mentor, an IACET-accredited training provider in the health, safety, and environmental sector, has partnered with Integrity Advocate to deliver verifiable online continuing education and training. The partnership addresses the growing threat of AI plugins completing CEU assessments without learner participation, and is designed to meet IACET requirements while maintaining a low-friction learner experience across all devices without installation.
Five Secrets to Integrity Advocate’s Industry-Leading Support
September 17, 2024
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Just 0.58% of Integrity Advocate learners required support during their exam last year. This post breaks down the five design decisions behind that number: no installation or plugins, full mobile and tablet compatibility, on-demand availability with no scheduling requirement, Privacy by Design data handling, and a simple interface that learners can navigate without assistance. For organizations running online exams at scale, each of these directly reduces the administrative burden and cost of support.
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.
Is Your Online Proctoring Platform POPIA Compliant? What South African Organizations Need to Know
February 9, 2021
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POPIA has been fully enforceable in South Africa since July 2021, and online proctoring platforms that collect identity and biometric data from South African test takers must meet its eight conditions for lawful processing. This guide walks through each condition and explains how Integrity Advocate is built to meet them, from collection limitation and informed consent to 24-hour biometric deletion, human review, and proactive learner transparency.
Is Your Ontario Institution FIPPA Compliant? What Online Proctoring Providers Need to Know
February 9, 2021
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Ontario universities, colleges, hospitals, and designated agencies are subject to FIPPA, and every vendor handling learner personal information must meet its standards. This guide walks through FIPPA's seven key principles and explains how Integrity Advocate meets each one, from limiting collection to automated data deletion, proactive learner notification, and human review that limits what gets shared with institutions.
Case Study: How Alliance Safety Council Took High-Risk Training Remote Without Losing Legal Defensibility
February 24, 2025
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Alliance Safety Council (ASC) has spent over 60 years setting the standard for high-risk workforce training in petrochemical, power generation, and manufacturing, industries where compliance isn't optional. Their in-person, proctored training model relied on identity verification and close monitoring to serve as an impartial third-party administrator for clients. As demand for remote training grew, ASC needed a solution that could match that legal defensibility without the logistical headaches, or the technical barriers that most online proctoring tools introduced. Integrity Advocate became that partner.
Case Study: How BCIT Modernized Proctoring Without Compromising Student Privacy
April 16, 2026
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When BCIT's legacy proctoring provider began generating student frustration and privacy concerns, the institute needed a replacement that could meet some of the world's strictest privacy standards, integrate with its existing LMS, and roll out mid-year without disrupting more than 48,000 students. Integrity Advocate delivered a no-install, privacy-first solution that proctored over 13,000 exams in a single semester, with only 1% of students requiring support.
Accessibility Is the Foundation of Fair Online Assessment
December 12, 2025
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Fair online assessment is not just about catching cheating. It is about whether the testing environment works consistently and equitably for every learner. When proctoring systems assume narrow definitions of normal behavior, perfect lighting, steady eye contact, high bandwidth, single devices, they do not just create friction. They create inequity. This post examines why accessibility has become central to assessment integrity, where AI-only approaches fail diverse learners, what inclusive proctoring actually requires, and how a human-backed model is the only approach that can interpret context fairly across the full range of real-world assessment conditions.
