It’s 6.30pm. A venue has just closed, 180 candidates are due tomorrow and your contingency plan offers three options that don’t add up. In part 1 of our new series, Robbie Burns looks at the gap between having a plan and being ready to use it.
Ten principles and two practical tools for choosing, applying and governing proctoring. Download the guide that closes The Proctoring Question series.
Every new cheating technology creates pressure to add another layer of surveillance, but that is an arms race the sector cannot win. In this eighth article of The Proctoring Question, we look at why better assessment design may be the most powerful security control, and what that means for the future of proctoring.
A proctoring platform can verify identity, control access and flag suspicious behaviour, but it does not decide what any of that means. People do. In this seventh article of The Proctoring Question, we look at why governance, policy and transparency make a proctoring process defensible, and where the authority of AI should end.
Remote proctoring has opened up assessment to candidates who could never reach a test centre. But getting someone logged in is not the same as giving them a fair chance. Equity begins after login, and it depends on design choices most assessment organisations can control.
We’re heading to Birmingham for World of Learning on 6–7 October, two days on learning, development, skills and the technology behind them. Underneath a lot of those conversations sits one question: how do you know whether someone can actually do what they’ve learned? Here’s what we’re watching, and where to find us.
The Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM) has chosen Cirrus Assessment for its high-stakes qualification exams. Candidates will work with real data in an embedded Excel environment and can sit mock exams in the same system beforehand, so exam day holds no surprises.
At World of Learning 2026, visitors to the Cirrus Assessment stand can take a test in Cirrus Neo or turn training material into a draft assessment in minutes. The AI does the drafting, and subject experts make the final call.
Remote proctoring is often presented as the candidate-centric option. But removing the journey to an exam centre does not automatically remove the pressures of sitting the assessment. In this fifth article of The Proctoring Question, we look at why candidate experience belongs alongside security and validity, and how the environment we create can change the evidence an assessment produces.
Cirrus Assessment has partnered with Examplary to bring AI-assisted exam authoring into Cirrus. Authors turn existing course materials into a draft exam, then review and approve it as usual, with all content kept in the EU.
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