Janison

What Janison is

Janison is an assessment company headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with an office in London, and its main product is an online assessment platform for organizations that run exams at scale. The platform covers four stages, authoring, delivery, marking and reporting, and sits beside a remote proctoring product for supervising tests that students take at home. The buyers it names are education authorities and government departments delivering school tests, professional associations certifying skills, schools, universities and vocational colleges, government agencies testing for immigration and driving licenses, and language testing organizations. It is a tool for the team putting candidates through an exam, not for an individual teacher making a quiz. The FAQ notes that the assessment platform used to be called Janison Insights and the proctoring tool Janison Remote; both now go by plain descriptive names on the site.

Building and delivering assessments

Authoring starts with question banks and blueprints. The platform page lists 40+ question types, randomized and branched tests, and multiple test variations produced with little extra effort, and the FAQ says the system supports summative, formative and diagnostic assessments as well as exams, coursework and quizzes. Access to the item bank can be restricted to the right staff, with full audit trails, which matters for an organization whose questions are reused year after year. Janison also sells a separate AI assessment tool called Jai for high-volume item creation, listed as its own product beside the platform.

Delivery runs through a locked-down browser or application that can be set to block websites, AI tools and other apps during the exam, including screenshotting. Because what is blocked is configurable, the same setup handles a low-stakes practice quiz and a high-stakes exam. Administrators get real-time exam monitoring, automated enrollment, a customizable test player and accessibility features. The test application keeps working without an internet connection: answers are saved locally and uploaded once the device reconnects, and while students are online their answers are saved as they type and backed up every 30 seconds with version history.

Marking can be automatic, semi-automatic or manual. For human-marked work the platform supports standardization, double marking and blind quality monitoring, flexible organization of marking teams, and a built-in plagiarism detector that flags suspect work automatically. Results go out automatically, with pre-built or custom reports and full traceability of how each test was marked. Organizations do not have to take the whole stack; the FAQ says they can pick components, authoring alone for instance, and Janison's engineers can customize the platform as part of the quote.

On integration, the platform connects with LMSs including Canvas, Moodle and Blackboard, as well as student management systems, analytics tools and other testing platforms. Janison offers extensive APIs, with its own engineers available to handle the integration work.

Remote proctoring in four levels

The proctoring product comes in four levels matched to exam stakes. Remote ID verifies identity and scans the room for prohibited materials, with results in 2 to 3 hours. Remote Auto adds AI flagging of violations, with results within 6 hours. Remote QA adds human reviewers who filter the flags, and Remote Live adds live invigilators who can talk to students and intervene; both of those return results within 12 to 24 hours.

The exam is created and scheduled in the institution's LMS with the proctoring app enabled. Students install the app, log in through the LMS, and verify their identity against their ID using facial recognition, with guardian checks for students under 18. An AI room scan looks for notes or phones. During the test the AI flags behavior according to the exam's settings, and at the Live level an invigilator can warn or message a student or pause the exam. Staff then review timestamped violations against a Quality Assurance framework that Janison offers as a download, after Janison has filtered out erroneous flags.

Each exam can carry its own rules: open or closed book, permitted or banned apps and websites, and flags for books or notes, second monitors, phones, smart watches, earphones, breaks, eating and drinking. A proxy test-taker or an attempt to run the exam in a virtual machine always raises a flag. Janison built the proctoring as an app rather than a browser extension, which the site says lets a test continue through internet dropouts and monitors at the operating-system level to block generative AI apps and VPNs. It works in an exam center as well as at home, and students with disabilities take the test as standard, with reviewers asked to keep their needs in mind. The proctoring FAQ names Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, D2L, Brightspace, Sakai, Open edX and Jenzabar among the supported LMSs.

One point a buyer should know: the proctoring software comes from Janison's delivery partner, Proctortrack, so Janison's engineers cannot customize it. Student help desks are set up in two tiers, with the institution answering basic questions by phone and Proctortrack handling complex ones.

Services around the software

Janison also runs exams for its customers. Its services cover online assessment delivery, paper exam delivery, remote proctoring delivery, professional invigilators and secure exam centers. In Australia it runs its own school assessments too, among them the ICAS academic competition, Academic Assessment Services for Year 2-11 students, and trial exams for HSC, VCE, SACE and QCE. The customer stories on the platform page include digitizing NAPLAN, Australia's national school assessment program, for Education Services Australia, diagnostic testing for the NSW Department of Education, moving the Big Science Competition online for Australian Science Innovations, and driver license knowledge tests for Transport for NSW.

Security, data and scale

The FAQ says Janison is ISO 27001 certified, and the proctoring page lists SOC 2 and end-to-end encryption among its security features. The assessment platform runs on Microsoft Azure and stores data in the country where the exams are delivered, to meet local data residency laws. Proctoring data is handled separately: raw video is hosted on Amazon (AWS) and the proctoring application on Google (GCP) servers, access is controlled by role-based multi-factor authentication, and the data is deleted automatically after three months. The webcam captures eye and hand movements, audio, a room scan and the ID check, and the site says the software touches nothing else on the computer, including files and passwords. Reliability measures listed in the FAQ include self-healing servers, load balancing and autoscaling, multiple availability zones, penetration testing, DDoS protection, and 24/7 monitoring by engineers during exams. The organization keeps full legal ownership of the assessment data it creates, and Janison says it has passed every IT vendor vulnerability assessment it has been given.

On scale, the platform page cites experience delivering millions of assessments a year across 100+ countries, and its ebook is presented as the work of staff who deliver exams to over 4 million students annually. The FAQ credits the infrastructure with supporting millions of concurrent students in NAPLAN.

Pricing, contracts and setup

The site publishes no prices. Quotes depend on exam volume, integrations and custom functionality, hosting location, training, the proctoring level chosen and any delivery services. Contracts run a year or more, with multi-year options and no month-by-month licensing, and there is no trial; instead an account director gives a demo tailored to the organization after an initial call. Janison recommends the platform for a minimum of 2,500 assessments a year. Implementing the full platform typically takes 3-12 months, while the proctoring software on its own can be running within a few short weeks. Each customer gets an account director, plus support for setup, integration, delivery and reporting.

Who it suits

Janison fits an education authority, licensing agency, professional body, university or vocational provider that runs at least the 2,500 assessments a year Janison recommends, needs secure delivery where connectivity is patchy, and wants the option of handing invigilation and exam logistics to the vendor. Its school assessment work in Australia and the NAPLAN project show it has handled school testing at national scale. A single teacher, a small training business or a course creator who wants a quiz builder inside a course would find the contract terms, setup time and enterprise sales process more than they need. Teams that want to change the proctoring software itself should note that it is Proctortrack's product, configured through Janison's four levels rather than customized.