We’ve rebranded to reflect who we’ve become: a science-based, privacy-focused proctoring platform designed for modern education, certification, and workforce assessments. OctoProctor represents our commitment to smarter, more adaptable, and test-taker-friendly remote proctoring.
Highlighting how OctoProctor’s new SCORM player, streamlined assessment setup, and enhanced transparency features create a more stable and intuitive online proctoring platform.
Meet OctoProctor v5.7.0, a release focused on making exam delivery smoother, easier, and more reliable for institutions of all sizes. With this update, OctoProctor proctoring evolves beyond a traditional remote proctoring software solution and becomes a more self-contained proctoring platform. One that can deliver, monitor, and protect assessments without relying on fragile LMS integrations.
The major highlight of this release is our new built-in SCORM exam player, allowing institutions to upload, manage, and run SCORM exams directly inside OctoProctor. Combined with a set of usability upgrades and improvements to operational transparency and data management, v5.7.0 brings a cleaner, more predictable experience for administrators, instructors, and live proctor teams.
Running secure online exams shouldn’t depend on complex LMS integrations. With v5.7.0, OctoProctor proctoring evolves into a more powerful and self-contained proctoring platform. Institutions can now deliver SCORM-based assessment content directly inside OctoProctor, making exam delivery smoother and more reliable than ever.
Many LMS environments create friction: iframe restrictions, LTI quirks, cookie issues, or unstable navigation. With our built-in SCORM player, clients can launch proctored tests immediately — no LMS integration required, or with a dramatically simplified setup.
SCORM content now plays inside the OctoProctor environment itself. This ensures that exams cannot start without active monitoring, removing the fragile “LMS ↔ proctoring link” that often fails with high-stakes tests. For organizations without an LMS, this becomes a turnkey online proctoring system.
Running SCORM inside OctoProctor eliminates common LMS pitfalls: iframe blocks, navigation losses, or authentication resets. Your exam stays stable — your test takers stay focused — and your team spends less time troubleshooting.
A new content access restriction feature allows administrators to apply access codes to uploaded folders, ensuring that only authorized users — and only during an active proctoring session — can view SCORM packages or other protected files. This improves exam security and supports compliance-ready workflows for high-stakes testing.
OctoProctor v5.7.0 introduces a range of improvements designed to make exam setup, session management, and the administrator experience smoother. These UX enhancements ensure institutions can meet modern usability standards while keeping the online proctoring workflow consistent and intuitive.
We introduced a new assessment entity to replace legacy session templates. This makes configuration easier to manage and gives institutions a more scalable structure for handling shared exam settings — not just proctoring or quiz parameters.
Assessments now include a candidate access list, letting administrators restrict who can enter a specific exam across all integrations — including self-registration workflows.
Sessions can no longer be created without a test taker, removing incorrect or empty session entries and keeping reporting clean and consistent.
The Provider field now includes autocomplete to reduce errors, avoid typos, and streamline exam setup for administrators handling multiple assessments.
The Assessments UI is now the default view for administrators. Assessment changes appear directly in the journal, and session URLs now follow clearer naming patterns. Existing templates were migrated automatically — no action needed on your part.
Administrators reviewing system performance will notice a much faster experience. Load statistics for extended periods now display significantly more quickly, providing smoother charts and more responsive analytics — especially in high-volume environments.
We’ve also focused on making institutional oversight easier and system maintenance effortless. The update adds transparent proctor activity reporting and automated data cleanup that prevents clutter and accidental errors.
While OctoProctor does not typically supply human proctors, many organizations rely on their own live proctor teams. To support operational clarity and compliance, v5.7.0 adds proctor activity reporting, giving institutions transparent and accurate visibility into how long each live proctor supervised exam sessions. This helps teams meet internal proctoring requirements and maintain consistent oversight during exam delivery.
Data removal is now both safer and cleaner. When a manager deletes a host, the system requires typing the host name to confirm the action, preventing accidental changes. Once confirmed, all related data is permanently purged, keeping your proctoring environment clean, compliant, and free from orphaned records.
Our goal remains the same: to help education move forward through better insights, smoother technology, and tools that stay out of your way. Across more than 70 releases over the past 10 years, this mission has guided every decision we make. v5.7.0 continues that direction — strengthening exam integrity, improving transparency, and making the proctoring workflow feel more natural.
OctoProctor Cloud customers receive the latest release automatically, with no action required. Our customer success team will reach out to on-premise clients to coordinate the upgrade.
Thank you for moving forward with us — your trust and feedback help us reach each milestone faster and build a better assessment experience for everyone.
SCORM exams now run directly within OctoProctor. Test takers access their exam inside the proctoring interface, making the flow simpler and more reliable during the exam session.
No — you can deliver SCORM exams entirely inside OctoProctor. If you do have an LMS, your integration setup becomes simpler.
It separates assessment settings from session data, making configuration easier, preventing setup errors, and creating a more intuitive structure for repeated assessments.
No — OctoProctor’s online proctoring system check continues to validate all proctoring requirements before an exam starts.
Institutions that use live proctors now benefit from clearer proctor activity reporting, helping them track supervision time and meet their internal policies.
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