MonitorExam

MonitorExam is an online exam proctoring platform that lets a school, college, coaching institute or training team run secure tests with its own staff in charge, rather than handing the session to an outside proctor. The company describes it as "an award-winning digital proctoring platform which can conduct end to end Olympiads, Admission Tests, Candidate Assessments," and its site banner offers AI exam proctoring free for up to 15 exams a month. Students open a link in any modern browser, on a laptop, phone, tablet or Chromebook, with no extension or download. For readers of the assessment tools category, MonitorExam can proctor a Google Form, a custom quiz or a third-party test, and the company also describes a built-in assessment engine called AssessME.

What you get

Seven proctoring levels. MonitorExam's central idea is that a practice quiz and a final exam should not get the same treatment. An instructor picks one of seven levels for each exam independently:

• Level 1: no proctoring, for practice quizzes
• Level 2: tab switching detection only
• Level 3: browser lockdown, tab tracking and copy-paste blocking, with no camera
• Level 4: adds screen recording
• Level 5: adds webcam recording
• Level 6: full automated AI proctoring with a CredScore report
• Level 7: live proctoring with FIDO2 biometric identity verification

The company's suggestion is that a low-stakes quiz runs at Level 2 and a final at Level 6 or 7, on "One platform, one bill." Level 3 matters for programs where not every student has a webcam: the FAQ says it still generates a CredScore integrity report without any camera. The company describes CredScore elsewhere as a "7-angle" score.

Live invigilator dashboard. At the live level, an invigilator from the institution logs into the dashboard and sees every active student at once, as a grid of screen feeds and webcam thumbnails, with real-time status showing who is active, who has flagged behavior and who has submitted. Clicking a student expands their full screen and webcam feed. There is no scheduling and no third-party login; the company compares it to a teacher walking into a physical exam hall.

In-exam chat. During a live session, the invigilator can open a direct chat with any one student. The message appears as an overlay on the exam screen, the student can reply, and the chat is logged. MonitorExam gives three uses: reassuring a student whose connection dropped that their progress is saved, asking a student who keeps looking away to keep their eyes on the screen, and clarifying an instruction without disturbing the rest of the cohort. The point is to settle borderline moments while the exam is running instead of turning them into misconduct flags afterwards.

Identity without stored biometrics. At the top level, MonitorExam uses FIDO2 passkey authentication. The student verifies identity with their own device's built-in facial recognition or fingerprint, and the company says "biometric data is never transmitted to any external server." Its case for passkeys is that passwords and SMS codes are the weak point of online exams, since "A student forwards a code to a proxy test-taker in seconds," while a passkey is a device-bound key that opens only with the student's own fingerprint or face.

No LMS required. Instructors can share an exam as a link. For Google Forms, MonitorExam wraps the form "natively by pasting the form link," with no LMS or custom integration. The company adds that it works for custom quizzes and third-party tools as well.

For developers and partners. A Proctoring SDK, published on npm as @monitorexam/proctoring, embeds proctoring in any web app with React hooks or vanilla JS, covering browser lockdown, face detection and CredScore. A Channel Partner Program for education consultants, IT resellers, LMS providers and digital transformation partners pays a 20% revenue share on every new subscription, with no joining fee.

The company also highlights low-bandwidth optimization, a "calm exam design" meant to lower test anxiety, and a 5-minute setup.

Pricing and evidence from the company's site

MonitorExam is one of the few proctoring tools with a published price list. Its comparison pages give the model as "Credit-based, pay as you go":

• Free: 15 exams a month, permanently, with no expiry and no credit card
• Standard (India): ₹99 to 149 per exam, for 16 to 499 exams a month
• Pro (India): ₹199 to 249 per exam
• International Standard: $3 to 5 per exam
• International Pro: $8 to 12 per exam
• Enterprise or institution: $2 to 4 per exam, for 1,000 or more exams a month
• 10% discount on annual billing

Because the free tier needs no sales call or contract, an individual teacher can try the product before a department buys anything. A demo, for those who want one, takes 20 minutes.

On scale, the company says it has served 5M+ candidates across 45+ countries. Its own fit list names the readers it has in mind: institutions whose students use a mix of browsers, devices or operating systems; programs that want their own faculty on the live dashboard; those that need camera-optional proctoring for low bandwidth, students without webcams or equity reasons; and anyone not locked into a specific LMS. It names markets where mobile is the main device ("India, Philippines, Indonesia, Africa") and organizations outside the US LMS ecosystem ("EdTech, India, Southeast Asia, corporate").

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Who it suits and who it does not

MonitorExam suits teachers and institutions that want to run proctoring themselves: a coaching institute giving admission tests, a school running an olympiad, a college department proctoring Google Forms quizzes, or a training team assessing staff, especially where students use phones, tablets or Chromebooks and not everyone has a reliable webcam. The free tier and per-exam pricing make it easy to start small, and the seven levels let one account cover both practice quizzes and finals. Developers building their own learning platform can embed it through the SDK.

It asks more of the institution at the top level, because live proctoring here means your own faculty watching the dashboard; programs that want an outside proctoring workforce to staff sessions around the clock will be looking for a different model. Institutions that want a deep, native integration inside a single LMS will find that MonitorExam's approach is built around sharing a link rather than living inside the LMS.