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After your exam window closes our staff will review any exam sessions in the virtual proctoring platform, Honorlock, and notify you of students who demonstrate suspicious behavior. 

What to expect

At the close of each exam window, proctors will review, by course or by section, any exam sessions recorded within the virtual proctoring platform, Honorlock. Based on the results of the review, we will notify you via email of any students who demonstrate suspicious behavior and should be investigated further. We will also notify you via email if we find all students free from suspicious behavior. The goal is to have reviews emailed within 2-3 business days of the exam window closing. 

While conducting the review of the recorded exam sessions, Exam Services' proctors will temporarily appear in the ICON site which contains the online exam. Our proctors, comprised of graduate students and community members, have completed all University of Iowa trainings which are required to access student data. The proctors will display on the People page with a role of Proctored Exam Reviewer. This ICON role has access only to the pages needed to review the exam session recordings. Once the review is complete, the proctors will be removed from your ICON site. 

All courses using the virtual proctor are opted into the review by default. If you do not want our staff to conduct an initial Exam Integrity Review for each exam, please notify us at exam-services@uiowa.edu. 

Making a determination about misconduct

Determining whether a student has committed academic misconduct, and appropriate next steps, remains at your discretion as the course instructor. When you receive our report of suspicious behavior, review the recording to determine whether misconduct occurred.

Select the button below to view the complete list of guidelines students receive for using Honorlock.

Honorlock Guidelines

Sample messages to students

Below are two sample messages you can modify and use when communicating with students about questionable exam activity. Please feel free to copy, paste, and edit the messages as needed. Not all the details in these samples will apply to your section; modify the messages to meet the processes outlined by your academic department and College. 

Gentle reminder

Exam misconduct not detected

View a sample message for communicating with a student about questionable exam activity. Modify as needed to meet the policies and processes outlined by your academic department and college.

Firm reminder

Misconduct detected

View a sample message for communicating with a student when misconduct has occurred. Modify as needed to meet the policies and processes outlined by your academic department and college.

Reporting misconduct

Each UI undergraduate college tracks offenses on a shared data base, Maxient. This enables academic misconduct reports to be shared across the colleges, with sterner consequences for repeat offenders. 

In order for administrators to contact and educate students, instructors must consistently report these incidents. Unreported incidents lead to repeat offenses, with the integrity of the section questioned by students.

UI Academic Misconduct Policy