AutoProctor

AutoProctor is an automated online test proctoring service from Socratease, Inc. Its homepage promise is short: "Our AI tracks candidate activity remotely. So, no more cheating on online tests." It is built for teachers, schools, olympiad organizers, training teams and recruiters who want to proctor a test without hiring human proctors or moving their questions to a new system. The site says it is "Trusted by 40,000 customers to conduct 20 Million+ Tests," shows 38 Million+ installs, and says candidates from across the world have been proctored since 2021. Named users include colleges like MIT and companies like LG, alongside, in the site's words, "startups with 1-2 employees."

Five ways to run a test

AutoProctor's main selling point is that it fits around wherever your test already lives. The homepage lists five routes, each with a setup time:

• AutoProctor Quiz (1 minute). The company's own Socratease quiz platform, which the site calls the easiest way to run an exam and describes as "Highly reliable, candidate friendly and customizable."
• Google Forms (3 minutes). Install the AutoProctor add-on and turn any Google Form into a proctored exam. Candidates take the test on AutoProctor and you see results and proctoring in Google Forms.
• Microsoft Forms (4 minutes). Paste a Microsoft Forms link into AutoProctor to get a shareable link. Results stay in Microsoft Forms and proctoring results appear in AutoProctor.
• Other test platforms (7 minutes). Convert a test link from a site such as Typeform or Classmarker; AutoProctor loads the test from that site and proctors the candidate.
• Your own site (1 day). A JavaScript SDK and REST APIs bring AutoProctor into any website, backed by developer docs and support.

The quiz builder

For those who build tests in AutoProctor itself, the quiz tool supports MCQ, multiple-answer questions, match the pairs, fill in the blanks, comprehension questions and more. Questions and options can be shuffled, and a randomized question bank lets you draw a fixed number of questions at random from a larger pool, so each candidate gets a different paper. Questions can be bulk uploaded from an Excel file in a single click, and technical questions can use Markdown and LaTeX. Questions can include images, video, audio and documents, and you can show the whole quiz at once or one question at a time.

Tests are not limited to multiple choice. The homepage mentions coding challenges for developers and communication tests for sales and support staff, and you can link several tests so a candidate takes them all through one link.

How a proctored test works

The site lays out four steps. You create the test in whichever tool you prefer. You choose proctoring settings, deciding how strict to be with features such as camera monitoring, tab-switch tracking, full-screen enforcement and microphone noise detection, and you can add a timer, schedule the test and set candidate access rules. AutoProctor then generates a unique test link to share. Candidates "don't need to install anything," according to the homepage; they open the link and start.

Afterward you see each candidate's responses alongside a proctoring report with screenshots, activity logs and a Trust Score meant to help you decide whether to trust the result. The sample dashboard shows the kind of events that get counted: audio cues, ChatGPT and Google use, phone usage, multiple faces and an ID card mismatch, rolled into a Trust Score with a verdict such as "Highly Likely Candidate Cheated." Session recordings capture every click and cursor movement, and answers are compared across candidates to check for plagiarism. Taken together, the site's feature table describes the monitoring as tracking the screen, camera and microphone, plus screen recording. The noise detection is sensitive enough that one of the candidate tweets the company reprints reads, "Did I just hear the mom's voice helping her child to cheat thru Autoproctor's noise detection.."

The company leans on automation as its main difference. A comparison page says it is "fully automated," with no need to manually review proctoring videos, check for plagiarism or check for cheating. The site menus list feature pages for session recording, tab switching, face and audio monitoring, and enhanced proctoring.

Who uses it

The site's use-case menu covers educational exams, olympiads, internal assessments, hiring and tests on your own site. For recruitment the company points to a sister product: "Need AutoProctor for Hiring? Use Equip instead!" Equip, it says, has all of AutoProctor plus more assessments. On reach, it cites "Customers from 150+ countries" and a 4.3 rating on 38 million installs, while the homepage header shows 4.5/5.

AutoProctor is unusually frank about how candidates feel. Under a heading that pairs "Love" with "Hate," it reprints "Real tweets from really pissed off candidates," among them "AutoProctor is the work of the devil" and "She might be AutoProctor, because she never trusted me enough." It is a joke, but also a fair signal that the monitoring is noticeable to the people being monitored.

Pricing

AutoProctor publishes its pricing, and its own feature table lists "Published Pricing" as a point in its favor: you do not need to contact sales. The homepage says plans start at $15/month and also shows "$0.10 per test." A free start gives you 10 tests at no cost, and the free trial gives access to all features before you buy a subscription. A demo is available from the homepage, along with a sample dashboard and a video that walks through creating a test, taking it and reading the proctoring results end to end. Support runs through a helpdesk, a blog and email, and the footer links to a Trust Center, privacy policy and terms.

Who it suits

AutoProctor suits teachers and institutions that already write tests in Google Forms or Microsoft Forms and want to add proctoring in minutes, and organizations that want to run a large online test with little setup; the site says you can assess "1000's of candidates within minutes of discovering us." Developers can embed it in their own platform through the SDK and APIs. The published per-test and monthly pricing makes small runs affordable to try.

The trade-off is the flip side of full automation: the Trust Score and reports point to likely cheating, and the instructor still has to read them and decide. Candidates also notice the monitoring, as the site's own tweet wall shows.