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"With Schoolyear, students can use a desktop application during an exam and we can make it AI-proof. This way, we can assess if students have the necessary knowledge themselves."
AI quiz solvers now advertise that they work on Blackboard tests. Schoolyear takes control of the student's device to reliably prevent cheating during any Blackboard test.
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"With Schoolyear, students can use bookkeeping software, visit the exam site, open and fill in an Excel file, and then write a report about it in Word. All in a secured session, without access to AI or outside resources."
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"The teachers are satisfied with the BYOD setup for their Moodle exams. Schoolyear saves us money in the sense that we do not have to have so many computer rooms anymore."
"With Schoolyear, students can use a desktop application during an exam and we can make it AI-proof. This way, we can assess if students have the necessary knowledge themselves."
"We had cases with our previous proctoring setup where we needed to look into whether we were dealing with a cheating case or not. The moment that you're conducting exams in Schoolyear, that is reduced heavily. This is saving us a lot of time."
"We can secure exams proactively instead of after the fact. This creates calm for students, clarity for teachers, and less hassle with the e-invigilators you no longer need."
"Schoolyear makes it possible to do skills assessments with the use of extra applications, like Rstudio, Excel and Matlab. Before, this was only possible with managed computers."
"We wanted to introduce safe and robust digital testing on campus. However, no combination of exam rooms had 800+ computers available at the same time. Schoolyear was the perfect and robust solution that we were looking for, as this allowed us to use the laptops of the students in regular exam rooms."
"We sought a flexible solution for fraud prevention during exams on students' own laptops. Schoolyear allows us to use our educational spaces more flexibly and reduce the need for fixed PC rooms."
"Before the introduction of the Schoolyear, lots of eyes were needed to make sure students didn’t use search engines, chat apps, notes, or email."
Extensions such as ExamClutch market themselves to Blackboard students. They read the question on the page and enter an answer with a double-click.
Browsers like Comet, ChatGPT Atlas and Edge come with an assistant on board. It can read the test page and suggest answers, no extension needed.
Blackboard lets you add an access code, set a time limit and randomize questions. None of these blocks anything else on the laptop: not AI, not messaging apps, not a second browser.
Students open the test from their course as always. Schoolyear takes over the device before the first question appears.
AI answer extensions, AI browsers and chat apps don't run in the workspace. Students only get the files, sites and apps you approve.
Invigilators see per student whether the lockdown holds, and security incidents are flagged the moment they happen.
A quiz password, IP restrictions and Moodle's full-screen pop-up decide who can open the quiz and how it's shown. They don't control what else runs on the laptop. Schoolyear locks down the device itself, so AI, chat apps and extensions stay closed for the whole quiz.
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Once Schoolyear is connected to your Blackboard environment, teachers decide per test whether it opens in the secure workspace. Practice tests can stay as they are, while graded tests are locked down. Students install Schoolyear once.
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Question pools and randomized answers make every attempt different. They don't control what else is open on the student's laptop.
Students answer in Blackboard while they calculate in Excel, analyze in SPSS or write in Word, alongside the files and websites you choose. Anything you don't add stays closed.
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That depends on your learning outcomes. Block AI when students must work on their own, or allow supervised AI when working with AI is part of the skill.
To assess what students can do on their own
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To assess how students work with AI
Allow support tools such as spellcheck, text-to-speech and screen magnification, so students can demonstrate their skills within a controlled assessment environment.
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To assess what students can do on their own
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To assess what students can do on their own
"With Schoolyear, students can use a desktop application during an exam and we can make it AI-proof. This way, we can assess if students have the necessary knowledge themselves."
"We sought a flexible solution for fraud prevention during exams on students' own laptops. Schoolyear allows us to use our educational spaces more flexibly and reduce the need for fixed PC rooms."
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"We wanted to introduce safe and robust digital testing on campus. However, no combination of exam rooms had 800+ computers available at the same time. Schoolyear was the perfect and robust solution that we were looking for, as this allowed us to use the laptops of the students in regular exam rooms."
When AI is built into browsers, apps, and operating systems, a traditional lockdown browser is no longer enough. Schoolyear uses five security layers to keep assessments open to the tools you allow and closed to everything else.
Schoolyear replaces the student's desktop before the assessment starts. AI overlays, messaging apps, screen sharing, remote access: blocked, not detected afterwards.
Assessments run in a clean, purpose-built environment that students can’t customize, extend or bypass with browser tricks. The assessment never runs in the environment the student controls.
Applications and files used during the assessment don’t run locally on the student’s device. They’re isolated from personal storage, cloud drives and local AI features.
When a restriction is triggered or a bypass is attempted, it’s logged and signalled in real time. You can always see whether the lockdown is intact, during the assessment and afterwards.
Bypass techniques keep evolving, so Schoolyear’s security is updated as soon as new ones emerge. Updates are deployed automatically, with no action needed from students or educators.
Run exams on any school-managed device without the exam infrastructure you maintain today. No shared accounts or GPOs.
Turn any student laptop into a secure assessment seat. Students run a laptop check before exam day, so issues surface early, not on the day itself.
Mix managed and student-owned devices in a single session. Same assessment, same security, one dashboard.
We secure the assessment by locking down the device, not by filming the student or their screen. Nothing is recorded, so there is no footage to store, review or leak.
Anything outside the whitelist is blocked at system level. Cheating is stopped the moment it's tried, not spotted on a recording afterwards.
Students are not filmed or analyzed while they work. Less stress during the assessment, and no arguments afterwards about what a recording showed.
"With Schoolyear, the involvement of IT and related costs of overhead now has been reduced to almost nothing. Our teachers are back in control of their secure digital exams."
"With Schoolyear, students can use bookkeeping software, visit the exam site, open and fill in an Excel file, and then write a report about it in Word. All in a secured session, without access to AI or outside resources."
"Schoolyear makes it possible to do skills assessments with the use of extra applications, like Rstudio, Excel and Matlab. Before, this was only possible with managed computers."
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