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For anyone unfamiliar with the term (like me!), Wikipedia says Eproctoring is:

[...] a form of exam proctoring which involves monitoring student behaviour during exams administered electronically [...]

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Massive failure to not have "What is Eproctoring" as the first section of the page.

I assume the target audience would all know the term, and others could work it with a little deduction or Googling.

Though it is a bit US centric I think. Here in the UK what I think is referred to as a proctor would instead be called an invigilator. Though again, unless the target audience is international, that probably does not matter.

I would add as an aside that the invigilated exam halls you likely remember from your British education don’t really exist in most US universities. Final exams are generally administered by the lecturers themselves rather than independent invigilators, and there’s (generally) less emphasis on having a standardised process from one course to another.

Funny, at my UK university for Computer Science we did not have independently invigilated exams. I would assume other courses were similar. We did have them for secondary education though.

At York we certainly piled into Central Hall or other large locations for exams, often multiple in the same room not all Computer Science at the same time. Though this was more than two decades ago so a lot may have changed.

I had no idea what it was, but reading the first few paragraphs makes it quite obvious.

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