The platform has a variety of features which can be applied while conducting an online exam, to prevent cheating by participants during the exam. 

1. Access Time: Allowing the participant to take the assessment(s) only during a designated/pre-decided time slot. The participant will not be able to start the assessment outside of the access time set for the assessment.

2. Mettl Secure Browser (MSB): This browser makes the participant’s system into a safe lockdown mode which prohibits any third-party application in the background that can be used for cheating. For this the participant is prompted to install the browser on their system and then proceed with examination.

3. Browsing tolerance: This feature counts every time a test-taker navigates away from the assessment window to give warnings (optional) if the set limit is exceeded the assessment will be terminated. The platform also provide a feature wherein there is an option to show the remaining count of the number of times the participant navigates away from the assessment window.

Following are the features available under Browsing Tolerance:

• Not Applicable – After enabling this feature, Browsing Tolerance will not be applicable for that assessment. 

• No Warning – After enabling this feature, the assessment will be terminated without any warning if the participant navigates outside the assessment window.

Note: We can select the warning counts from the options, or we can also select the Custom-warning limits as per the requirement of the assessment.

4. Advanced Visual Proctoring: After enabling this feature, the participant has to submit the snapshot of their ID card and their face, it also has a feature to “Capture participants’ Screen”.

Following are the flags generated by the AI:

• Capture Candidate Screen – This feature captures the participant’s screen & Camera feed snapshots at every 60 seconds. Also, along with the reports, we can view the participant screen snapshots while viewing the live feed of a participant too which captures the face of the participant at every 60 seconds.

• Candidate Authorization - Candidate authorization is a manual intervention, and the authorizer can allow/block the participant which will confirm participant’s authenticity. 

• Store Recorded Video – This feature allows us to capture participant's entire webcam input for the entire test which can be previewed in the Test-taker’s report.

• Audio Proctoring - While scheduling a proctored assessment, we can also listen to the audio feed of the participant while they attempt the assessment. This feature will detect any human speech and the number of speakers during the assessment. By default, this option is disabled for all the assessments. 

• Mandatory 360 Check – This prompts the participant to show the entire room before taking the assessment through their webcam.

5. OTP (One Time Password): Protected Test-takers can access the assessment link only after entering the One-Time Password, sent to their registered email address. However, if Mettl Secure Browser is enabled, OTP will not function.

6. IP Address Restrictions: This feature allows participants to attempt the assessment from a defined IP range. No other range of IP addresses would be allowed to access the assessment link. Only the systems on the range specified will be able to successfully take the assessment. The IP address must be a Public IP address (static) and not Private IP address.

7. Private Access: Allowing only registered participants to take the assessment, through verified assessment-registration fields. This makes sure that only desired participants are able to access and take the assessment. There is also an option to send customized invitation email notifications to the participants with the protected link to the assessment. Click here to know more.

8. Supervised resume: Allow only genuine participants to resume a disconnected assessment in case of network failure or other technical issues. A proctor is required to do the same.

9. No Plagiarism: Blocking "copy-paste", "print-screen" controls.

10. Watermark: This feature displays a watermark in the background of the assessment screen to discourage participants from cheating via taking screenshots or pictures of the assessment window. It recognizes the point of leak to control exposure of content.

11. Question and Option Randomization: This allows randomizing all the questions and options shown to the participant to discourage them from cheating. One option is to randomize the options and questions with the same skill set and the other is to randomize amongst multiple skill sets. Skill sets are nothing but topics containing multiple questions.