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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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When AI Outsmarts Exams: Safeguarding the Value of Your Credentials
October 1, 2025
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GPT-4 has scored in the 90th percentile on the Bar Exam, 93% on the US Medical Licensing Exam Step 1, and outperformed average test-takers on the SAT, LSAT, and graduate-level law school exams. When AI can pass the same high-stakes exams certifying bodies have relied on for decades, the credibility of those credentials is at risk. This post examines what is at stake when AI can bypass traditional exam security, where legacy tools fall short, and what a hybrid AI plus human review approach looks like for certifying bodies that need to protect the value of their credentials without compromising the candidate experience.
AI-Powered Online Proctoring Software Needs Human Oversight
September 16, 2025
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AI-powered proctoring can monitor at scale, but it cannot understand context, weigh consequences, or defend a certification decision to a regulator or accreditor. In safety-critical industries where a missed harness check or a wrongly credentialed healthcare worker can cost lives, the blind spots of automated-only proctoring become serious liabilities. This post examines what AI cannot do in high-stakes assessment, what standards like ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2024, ISO/IEC 17024, and NCCA require in terms of defensibility and human oversight, and why the right model is AI plus human judgment rather than either alone.
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.
OnDemand Webinar: 30K Proctored Exams, Zero Headaches: National Payroll Institute Keeps Support Under 1%
June 2, 2025
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Before Integrity Advocate, nearly 50% of National Payroll Institute students experienced issues with online proctoring. After implementation, that figure dropped to virtually zero. This webinar recap covers NPI's full transformation: a 57% reduction in academic integrity incidents, 30,000 or more exams proctored seamlessly, sub-1% support rates, and a scaling from a few thousand to every student being e-proctored in less than three months. Three NPI leaders share what the experience looked like from the inside and what they would tell other organizations considering a proctoring solution.
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.
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.
New Frontiers in Online Certification: Dog-Friendly Training
March 21, 2023
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A pug recently completed alcohol service, forklift operation, emergency response, and boat operator certifications online, without identity verification or participation monitoring. The serious point: when online training programs skip these measures, credentials become meaningless and liability follows. This post makes the case for verified online training with Integrity Advocate through a story that is hard to forget.
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.
