WEBINAR: A Better Proctoring Experience for You and Your Students

Institutions of higher education are concerned that academic honesty violations undermine the integrity of their online degree programs (D’Souza and Siegfeldt, 2017). To combat cheating, many institutions require remote proctoring software for online course exams. The University of North Alabama’s (UNA’s) College of Business has tried various online proctoring solutions over the past few years, including automated proctoring, recorded proctoring, and live proctoring, as well as a proctoring solution called Honorlock that combined all of these options into one. Our case study aimed at finding a proctoring solution that was both effective and user-friendly to faculty and students. The results of our case study suggest that Honorlock is both the most effective and the most user-friendly product from both the faculty and student perspective.

Speakers:

Jill Simpson, PhD

University of North Alabama

Press Release: Honorlock Chosen to Protect Academic Integrity at the University of North Alabama

A rigorous evaluation of four remote proctoring solutions ranks Honorlock #1 by administrators, faculty and students.

BOCA RATON, Fla, May 30, 2019 – Honorlock, a cloud-based proctoring solution that is transforming how education institutions protect the academic integrity of online courses and assessments, today announced they were awarded a multi-year contract by The University of North Alabama (UNA) College of Business after a comprehensive review of four online proctoring solutions. Honorlock will automatically verify student identity, protect unauthorized use of test content, provide automated and live proctoring for online assessments and real-time test review and reporting for faculty.

“Ensuring academic integrity and fairness for all students has always been a top priority at UNA’s College of Business,” said Gregory Carnes, Dean of the UNA College of Business. “Honorlock’s unique proctoring solution demonstrates the efficacy and usability that our faculty and students need and supports our long-standing commitment to providing the highest-quality learning experience for our students.”

Since implementing Honorlock, UNA’s College of Business has:

  1. Achieved normalization of the bell curve by preventing cheating
  2. Adopted proctoring for 100% of their online exams
  3. Increased student retention by reducing test anxiety and increasing fairness
  4. Saved faculty time and hassle by providing real-time accurate test review and reporting

“We know universities have many options when it comes to online test proctoring,” said Michael Hemlepp, CEO of Honorlock. “Our goal is to be the best option. We’re committed to leading the industry through innovation and customer success.”

About Honorlock

Honorlock is revolutionizing the way education institutions protect the academic integrity of their online courses and assessments. Used by three of the 10 largest universities in the US, Honorlock’s proprietary features provide educators with the assurance that their test is protected, and students with the flexibility of proctored exams whenever and wherever they need it. Honorlock is dedicated to providing world-class service and support 24/7/365. www.honorlock.com.

About The University of North Alabama

The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs through the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Human Sciences, and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professionals. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of the NCAA Division I’s Atlantic Sun Conference. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: www.una.edu and www.una.edu/unaworks/

Tess Mitchell

Tess has 20+ years of experience heading up corporate marketing teams in healthcare and higher education. She is passionate about thinking differently to lead teams to discover new and innovative ways to drive positive outcomes.

Press Release: Honorlock Strengthens Its Leadership Team with Key New Hires

With its leadership team in place, Honorlock is well positioned for strong growth, product innovation, and customer success.

BOCA RATON, Florida, April 29, 2019 — Honorlock, a cloud-based proctoring solution that is transforming how educational institutions protect the academic integrity of online courses and assessments with its patented solution, today announced the strengthening of its leadership team with four key hires. Dionne (Dee) Bohne joined the company as Vice President of Sales, Brandon Smith as Vice President of Customer Success, Tess Mitchell as Vice President of Marketing and Andrew Simkovsky as Chief Technology Officer. Together, the four new hires bring decades of leadership experience in high-growth SaaS and Ed Tech organizations.

Bohne comes to Honorlock with more than 15 years of experience in education, most recently with Instructure where she had the opportunity to impact early-stage growth by exceeding sales quotas. At Honorlock she brought together a world-class sales team using a consultative sales approach to exceed sales targets.

Smith joined Honorlock from testing and assessment platform ExamSoft where he held executive-level roles in both Operations and Customer Success. At Honorlock, he is leading the Operations and Client Care teams toward implementing lean operational efficiencies and evangelizing customer success best practices to develop support centers of excellence.

Mitchell held executive-level marketing roles at a variety of education companies including Relias, CAE, and Redilearning and brings a proven track record for product launch and driving rapid growth in b2b demand generation. At Honorlock, she will be responsible for marketing innovation and execution in branding, demand generation, sales enablement and pipeline acceleration.

Simkovsky joined Honorlock to head up the company’s Technology and Product Management functions. He is a product engineering and cloud architecture professional with over 18 years of technology experience, including cloud infrastructure design, database development, and product engineering and delivery.

“All four individuals have immensely impressive track records of scaling education technology in high-growth organizations, while at the same time not losing sight of the importance of the customer,” said Michael Hemlepp, Honorlock CEO and board member. “We have plans to do big things in 2019 and I’m thrilled to have such a visionary team lead us to bring our cutting-edge solution to our education partners.”

Tess Mitchell

Tess has 20+ years of experience heading up corporate marketing teams in healthcare and higher education. She is passionate about thinking differently to lead teams to discover new and innovative ways to drive positive outcomes.

Press Release: Honorlock Raises $2.5 Million in Funding and Appoints New CEO

The online proctoring company, used by three of the 10 largest universities in the US, will accelerate hiring, sales, marketing and product development

BOCA RATON, Florida, April 25, 2019 – Honorlock, a cloud-based proctoring solution that is transforming how education institutions protect the academic integrity of online courses and assessments, today announced that it has raised $2.5 million in Series Seed Preferred funding led by board members Daniel Cane, CEO, Modernizing Medicine, and Michael Hemlepp. The funding comes after Honorlock’s initial seed round, totaling $4.2 million in funding for the company to date. The funding will help the company hire key team members, expand sales and marketing and fast-track product development.

Board member, Michael Hemlepp, accepted the role of CEO and will assume leadership of the Company allowing founder, Adam Roth, to step into the role of CTO and lead the Company’s innovation.

“Honorlock is revolutionizing how higher education is delivering online assessments,” said Hemlepp. “I am honored to lead the Company through the next stages of hyper-growth to become the leading proctoring solution in the industry.”

The Honorlock platform delivers analytics to educators on how students are approaching their online assessments. It’s the first and only system to use A.I. to detect suspicious behavior and trigger a live proctor to “pop in” to a student’s session to prevent dishonesty before it happens. Patented technology detects the use of secondary devices including cell phones and tablets during testing, and a Search & Destroy function removes illicit test content from third-party websites rendering it virtually impossible to access.

“We see a growing demand for an advanced proctoring solution that delivers the efficacy of 1:1 live proctoring with the ease of use and affordability of an automated platform,” Hemlepp said. “Honorlock hits the sweet spot of both and we are thrilled with the rapid adoption among leading academic institutions.”

About Honorlock

Honorlock is revolutionizing the way education institutions protect the academic integrity of their online courses and assessments. Used by three of the 10 largest universities in the US, Honorlock’s proprietary features provide educators with the assurance that their test is protected, and students with the flexibility of proctored exams whenever and wherever they need it. Honorlock is dedicated to providing world-class service and support 24/7/365. www.honorlock.com.

Tess Mitchell

Tess has 20+ years of experience heading up corporate marketing teams in healthcare and higher education. She is passionate about thinking differently to lead teams to discover new and innovative ways to drive positive outcomes.