Enabling Obsyra and Choosing a Monitoring Level
Enable Obsyra from the admin screen and choose a monitoring level: record-only, warn, lockdown, or auto-terminate. Lockdown and above require full-screen; auto-terminate only auto-submits once violations exceed a limit.
【Where to configure】
Go to Admin → Recruitment → Obsyra (Proctoring). Configuration requires the recruitment-admin permission (admin:recruit). Here you set the monitoring level, webcam requirement, and more.
【Monitoring levels (5 stages)】
· Off: No monitoring. Same as no policy — the exam flow is completely unchanged.
· Record-only: Just records behavior. The exam proceeds normally; copy/paste and tab switching are not blocked. A good place to start.
· Warn: In addition to recording, shows a brief on-screen warning for a few seconds when a violating action occurs. The action itself is not blocked.
· Lockdown: Requires taking the exam in full-screen. Exiting full-screen shows a red warning and blocks answering until the test-taker returns to full-screen. Copy, paste, and right-click are disabled during lockdown.
· Auto-terminate: On top of lockdown, once violations exceed a limit (default 3), the answers are auto-submitted and the exam ends.
Even with "Auto-terminate", that is only an automatic submission — not a "fail". Any decision about passing or cheating is made separately by a person during review (see "Reviewing exam results", #OBS-005).
【Options you can set alongside】
· Require webcam: Makes granting webcam permission mandatory to take the exam (independent of the monitoring level — usable with any level). See "Configuring the required-webcam mode" (#OBS-004).
· Auto-terminate limit: The number of violations that triggers auto-terminate (default 3).
· Disclose auto-terminate: Whether to tell test-takers on the start screen that exceeding a set number of exits auto-submits (default on).
【Device limitations】
On devices that don't support full-screen control (e.g., Safari on iPhone), lockdown/auto-terminate cannot lock answering and fall back to record-only. If strict proctoring is required, ask candidates to use a desktop browser. The start screen also notes this.
【Recommended approach】
Start with "Record-only" to see how many records appear, then strengthen to "Warn" and "Lockdown" in steps as needed. Jumping straight to "Auto-terminate" can end an exam even due to a brief network drop or an accidental tap on a phone.
Example
Use 'Lockdown + required webcam' for important stages and 'Record-only' for first-round screening — matching the monitoring level to the stakes.
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