Frequently Asked Questions
It isn't a video like an mp4 file, etc that you can download and watch on a player. But, when you watch it from within AutoProctor, you will see it rendered like a video.
Basically, we take snapshots of the page and record all candidate interactions as they happen and reconstruct them into a video. We use the excellent, open-source rrweb library for this.
We can record up to 5 hours. A longer recording means it'd take you longer to play back the video, and a lot of memory. But, if your computer is good, there won't be any issues.
If the candidate reloads the page midway, the recording will show up as a different Part.
Broadly, Proctoring looks at the candidate's environment as they attempt the test. It doesn't look at the test itself. That's where Session Recording is useful.
Say for example you think that the candidate is cheating, but aren't 100% convinced. You then watch the session recording and see that on a 10-min test, the candidate didn't write anything for the first 8 minutes. Over the next 2 minutes, they typed out an essay with no typos and backspaces. It is then very likely that the candidate cheated on the test.
No. Session recording works only for Socratease Quizzes on the AutoProctor website.
Non-Socratease Quizzes are loaded as IFrames on the AutoProctor website. Session recording cannot work if an IFrame is loaded from a different domain. So, the activity cannot be recorded.
Session Recording will detect activity within an IFrame, but the IFrame's url must be of the same origin. Cross-origin IFrame events cannot be detected and so Session Recording won't work there.