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After your exam window closes our staff will review the Honorlock recordings and notify you of students who demonstrate suspicious behavior. 

After your exam window closes our staff will review the Honorlock recordings and notify you of students who demonstrate suspicious behavior. Our staff will temporarily appear in your ICON course as Proctored Exam Reviewers. If you do not want our staff to conduct an initial Exam Integrity Review please notify us at exam-services@uiowa.edu. 

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's Academic Misconduct Policy