How Proctorly works with Moodle today
- Candidates sign in to Moodle. There is no new account or separate portal. Sign-in and exam launch go through Moodle’s own login.
- They open the Moodle exam. The quiz, its questions and its settings stay in Moodle, built by your faculty in the tool they already use.
- Proctorly monitors the sitting. Monitoring runs alongside the Moodle quiz in any browser and raises a flag, with clips and snapshots, when it sees a known threat.
- People review, your institution decides. Depending on the assurance level you choose, flags go to your own staff in the reviewer console or to a Proctorly reviewer. Your institution sees each reviewed case with its evidence and makes the call.
Because the quiz stays in Moodle, Moodle goes on marking it and holding the grade in its gradebook, just as it does today. Proctorly holds the proctoring record: what was captured, what was flagged and what the reviewer decided.
The connection works through Moodle’s own login (OAuth 2) and through LTI 1.3 Advantage, with plugin support for earlier versions of Moodle. Your Moodle administrator should confirm the setup steps with us during onboarding.
What Proctorly adds to a Moodle exam
Moodle is a strong place to build and deliver a Moodle online exam, but it was never built to watch the person taking it. Proctorly adds that layer of LMS proctoring, using the same core that runs exams hosted inside Proctorly. The exact set of checks available for an exam that stays in Moodle is confirmed for each setup.
- Identity checks. The candidate’s face is matched at the start and through the session, photo and video replays are rejected, and photo ID is captured where the exam requires it.
- Monitoring for known threats. Signals such as known AI tools, second devices in view, remote-access tools, screen overlays, leaving the exam window and unusual audio are each raised as a flag for a person to review.
- Gentle reminders. Before anything is flagged, on-screen nudges remind the candidate of rules such as staying in view, and every nudge is logged.
- Human review. Every flag gets a recorded decision and a reason.
- Evidence. Each candidate has a case record, backed by a tamper-evident audit trail and a one-click evidence pack for appeals.
You choose the assurance level per exam. A weekly Moodle quiz might need only recorded monitoring with your staff reviewing, while an end-semester exam might need every flag reviewed by Proctorly before results go out. Our online proctoring page compares the levels.
Moodle quiz security: what Moodle does on its own
Before you add any proctoring tool, make full use of what Moodle already offers. Most Moodle versions include quiz settings such as:
- Timing. Open and close dates, a time limit, and what happens when time runs out.
- Attempts. How many attempts are allowed and how the grade is calculated.
- Randomization. Shuffling answers within questions and drawing random questions from question bank categories, so candidates see different papers.
- Layout and navigation. One question per page and sequential navigation, so candidates can’t jump back and forth.
- Extra restrictions. A quiz password, a required network address range for campus-only exams, and a browser security option that opens the quiz in a restricted pop-up window.
- Review options. When candidates can see their answers, marks and feedback.
Settings vary between versions and sites, so check the Moodle documentation for your version and ask your Moodle administrator what is switched on.
Moodle and Safe Exam Browser
Safe Exam Browser is a free, open-source lockdown browser that many institutions use with Moodle. When a quiz requires it, the candidate has to open the exam in Safe Exam Browser, which blocks other applications, websites and system functions for the length of the exam. You can set Moodle to require Safe Exam Browser in the quiz settings. Check the Moodle and Safe Exam Browser documentation for your versions.
A lockdown browser and proctoring do different jobs. Safe Exam Browser limits what the computer can do. It doesn’t check who is sitting the exam, and it can’t see a phone on the desk or a person in the room. Proctoring watches the sitting and keeps a record, which is why many institutions use both. Whether Proctorly’s Moodle monitoring runs inside a Safe Exam Browser session depends on your setup, and we’ll confirm it for your exams before you commit.
Where quiz settings stop
Moodle quiz security has edges, even with every setting on. No quiz setting can confirm that the account holder is the person at the keyboard, or see a second device, a helper off-camera or an AI assistant open on a phone. Quiz settings also don’t produce the record an appeal panel asks for: what happened, what was seen and who decided. Moodle quiz proctoring fills that gap.
Moodle proctoring plugin or connected service?
Proctoring tools for Moodle come in two broad shapes.
Plugins installed on your Moodle site. Moodle’s plugin directory lists community and commercial plugins that add proctoring features to quizzes, from tools that take webcam snapshots during an attempt to connectors for commercial proctoring services. A plugin can be quick to try. Your team, though, installs, updates and supports it through every Moodle upgrade, and reviewing what it captures usually falls to your own staff.
Connected proctoring services. The quiz stays in Moodle, and an outside service handles monitoring, review and evidence. Proctorly works this way, through Moodle’s own login and LTI 1.3, which also brings roster and grade return.
When you compare any Moodle proctoring tool, ask:
- Does it check identity through the session, or only at the start?
- Who reviews the flags, and how quickly?
- Can an automated flag fail a candidate on its own? (With Proctorly, it can’t.)
- What does the candidate install, and does it work in their browser?
- Where is the recorded data stored, and for how long?
- What does your exam office receive when a case goes to committee?
What the Moodle connection includes
- Monitoring exams that stay inside Moodle, in any browser
- Moodle sign-in and exam launch through Moodle’s own login
- LTI 1.3 Advantage for Moodle, with launch, roster and grade return
- Human review of flags, case records and evidence packs
Moodle monitoring with OAuth and LTI 1.3 is live and supports Canvas, Blackboard, and other learning platforms. Ask us for the Moodle versions we have tested and the services supported on your site.
If you need a Moodle online examination system that also covers timetables, hall tickets, marking and results, those sit in the separate Proctorly Examination module, which runs on the same platform.
People decide, not the software
A flag is a signal, and only a person turns it into a finding. At the Every flag reviewed level, a trained Proctorly reviewer opens each flag at the flagged moment, with webcam, screen and events on one timeline, and records a decision with a reason. Reading aloud, assistive tools, household noise and disability-related movement are not treated as misconduct. Your institution sees only reviewed cases and makes the final call.
Each case keeps the clips, the timeline, the reviewer’s reasoning and an audit trail that shows any tampering, all exported as one evidence pack for an appeal or an audit. Read more about human review proctoring.
Frequently asked questions
Does Proctorly work with Moodle today?
Yes. Moodle monitoring with OAuth and LTI 1.3 is live and supports Canvas, Blackboard, and other learning platforms. Proctorly monitors exams that stay inside Moodle, in any browser, and candidates sign in and open the exam through Moodle’s own login. The LTI 1.3 Advantage connection adds launch, roster and grade return. People review the flags, and your institution makes the final decision.
Is there a Moodle proctoring plugin to install?
On current Moodle versions, Proctorly connects through Moodle’s own login, so you have no plugin to maintain through Moodle upgrades. Plugin support is available for earlier versions of Moodle. Every site’s configuration and sign-in arrangements differ a little, so your Moodle administrator should still confirm the exact setup steps with our team during onboarding. We’ll walk through them before your first exam.
Can we use Safe Exam Browser and Proctorly together?
They do different jobs. Safe Exam Browser restricts what the computer can do during a Moodle exam, while Proctorly checks who is sitting the exam, watches for known threats and keeps a record for review. Many institutions want both for higher-stakes exams. Whether the two run together depends on your setup, so we confirm it for your exams before you commit.
Do our Moodle quizzes or grades move out of Moodle?
No. With Proctorly’s Moodle monitoring, the quiz, its questions and its settings stay in Moodle, and Moodle marks the quiz and holds the grade as it does today. Proctorly holds the proctoring record: the captured evidence, the flags and the reviewer’s decisions. Grade return through LTI 1.3 Advantage is live for exams launched from Moodle.
Does an automated flag fail a candidate in a Moodle exam?
No. AI raises flags, and a trained person reviews each one and records a decision with a reason. No automated flag fails a candidate or imposes a sanction. Your institution sees each reviewed case with its evidence and decides the outcome, and any appeal goes through your own process with the full record available.
See Proctorly on your own Moodle exam.
Bring a Moodle quiz you plan to run this term, and we’ll show you how monitoring, review and the evidence pack work on it.