Locked-down assessment on students' own laptops
ExamSafe turns a student's MacBook into a single-purpose writing app for the length of a sitting, and hands their work to staff when they finish.
How a sitting runs
Staff create the sitting in this portal and set what is allowed. Students open the app, sign in with their school account, and choose the sitting from a list. The computer locks when they begin, and the supervisor releases it with a code read aloud to the room, or from the roster.
Work is saved continuously to the student's own machine, so a crash or a flat battery loses nothing. On submitting, the file is created in the student's Drive and ownership is transferred to the staff member named on the sitting.
What staff can see
A roster of who has started, who is still responding, and who has handed in. Nothing is graded, collected or read here: the portal runs the room and hands the work over, and the work itself lives in Drive.
Access provisions
Dictation, text to speech, and showing the paper on screen are each granted per sitting. They are entitlements rather than choices, so the app does not offer a student the option of going without one they have been granted.
What it is not
It is not remote proctoring. There is no camera, no microphone recording, and no screen watching. It is a supervised room with software that keeps the machine on task and makes what happened visible to the staff already there.