Digital assessment for universities & awarding bodies

One platform. Every level of integrity.

Formative quizzes, coursework, open-book papers and high-stakes proctored exams - authored, delivered and marked in one place, with security you dial up to match the stakes. Invigil records how each exam was actually taken, so academic judgement stays where it belongs: with your examiners.

UK data residency GDPR-compliant capture WCAG assistive tools never blocked No per-sitting tokens
The problem

Assessment tooling forces a choice nobody wants to make.

One tool per exam type

A quiz platform, a lockdown browser, a proctoring vendor and a spreadsheet for band scores. Four systems, four logins, four support queues - and no single record of what happened.

Security that's all-or-nothing

Either every assessment is locked down like a final, or none of them are. Nothing in between, so staff route around the platform for anything formative.

Suspicion without evidence

Flags arrive as scores and probabilities with nothing attached. When a student appeals, there is no record of what actually happened at the desk - and the case collapses.

Pricing that punishes use

Per-sitting tokens bought in batches that expire. Run more assessments, pay more; run fewer, pay anyway.

Why Invigil

Three things you won't find in one product anywhere else.

The record, not the verdict

Written answers are captured as they're composed - pauses, deletions, rewrites, pastes. Examiners replay the composition and decide for themselves. Every signal ships with the raw evidence attached.

Evidence, not a probability

Own it, don't rent it

One build fee, unlimited sittings, and the platform is yours outright. No batch purchases, no expiring credits, no penalty for growing.

No tokens. Ever.

Honest about what it achieved

Invigil never auto-fails anyone, and every session states the enforcement level actually reached on that machine. A managed lab PC and a personal laptop are never judged by the same yardstick.

Built for the tribunal
How it works

Six stages, one platform, no handoffs.

This is the real interface, running on sample Unit 1–4 material and an imported cohort of twenty. Walk the stages, or ignore them and click around the app yourself - question editors, the test wizard, an authorship replay and the results inbox are all live.

Stage 1 of 5

Compose

Build your item bank from rich question types with media, tables and multiple acceptable answers. Tag once, reuse everywhere; assemble sets and clone them for variants. Open a question to see the editor, or preview any set exactly as a candidate will sit it.

exam team · before the exam

Sample data only - this demo is not connected to a database, and nothing you type here is stored or sent.

The sitting

A locked room, not a locked browser tab.

Invigil is a signed desktop application - a web page has no authority over a student's machine. When the exam starts, the computer becomes an exam room.

Lockdown that reports what it achieved.

Browsers and disallowed applications are closed and held closed. Network access narrows to the exam server. Anything that can't be blocked is recorded instead, with a timestamp and the name of the app that took focus - and the enforcement level genuinely reached on that machine is reported to examiners, so nobody is judged against a standard their hardware never met.

  • Full-screen kiosk, shortcut suppression, relaunch monitoring
  • Second-display and virtual-machine detection
  • Work survives crashes and Wi-Fi drops - answers save on-device every ~2 seconds and upload in order when the connection returns
  • Screen readers, TTS and magnifiers are allowlisted per candidate - never closed, always noted, so reviewers don't mistake support for misconduct
Review

Watch the answer being written.

The scrubber replays essay composition keystroke by keystroke against a timeline of paste events, focus changes and webcam bookmarks. A 230-character block that lands in a single step tells its own story - nothing needs to accuse anyone.

Authorship signal · live keystroke cadencesession #A-2291
Human composition is uneven - pauses, deletions, rewrites. A pasted answer arrives as a single burst. Invigil shows the difference and lets an examiner draw the conclusion.

Evidence an examiner can act on.

  • Paste detection with timestamp and character count per event
  • Every focus loss logged with the application that took over
  • Authorship signals are advisory - a human always decides
  • Sessions arrive ranked by flags, with replay, timeline and footage attached
  • Evidence pack export (PDF + media, checksummed) - the appeal file writes itself
Authorship replay - Essay (Q5)review
▌ typing▌ paste▌ focus change
Flexibility

Pick the assessment type. Pick the perimeter.

Every row uses the same questions, the same candidate interface and the same marking tools. Only the perimeter changes.

AssessmentOpen bookClosed bookHigh-stakes proctored
Formative quizzes
Summative exams
Coursework & portfolios
Take-home assignments
In-person exams
Remote exams
What you needAssessAssess + LockdownAssess + Lockdown + Monitor
Client securityStandard browserLocked desktop clientLocked client, monitored
DevicesAny device (BYOD)Approved devicesApproved devices + camera
Student resourcesAllowedBlockedBlocked and recorded
Student experience

Built so the exam is the only hard part.

One interface, every time

The same clean, distraction-free screen for a Tuesday quiz and a final in the exam hall. Nothing to learn on exam day.

One username, one password

No second device, no authenticator app, no PIN sheet. Identity is assured by ID capture and webcam match - which is also the only approach that doesn't break proctoring rules.

Practice before it counts

A mandatory practice test runs the real client on the student's own machine, so camera, microphone and lockdown problems surface days early, not at 9am.

Results without the wait

Objective sections mark themselves the moment a paper is submitted, so results move in days rather than weeks - and nothing is visible to a student until you release it.

Nothing lost to a bad connection

Answers save locally every couple of seconds and sync in order when the network returns. A dropped Wi-Fi signal is an inconvenience, not an incident.

Support that isn't punished

Approved assistive software stays open and is recorded as approved, so using it never looks like misconduct in review.

Operations

Thousands of sittings, without a war room.

Role-based permissions

Granular roles control who sees what. Authors reach the question bank, markers reach their allocations, administrators see the estate. Standards without micromanagement.

Connected systems

Enrolments in, results out. LMS and SIS integration replaces CSV round-trips and manual re-keying.

Proven infrastructure

Concurrent sittings across departments on UK-hosted infrastructure, with encrypted on-device backup and ordered resync so network disruption never becomes exam disruption.

Reliable results

Objective marking is instant, band conversion automatic, exports one click. Results move in days, not weeks.

Commercials

The end of the token treadmill.

Incumbent platforms rent you your own exams: per-sitting tokens, minimum batches, credits that expire unused every year. Invigil inverts the model.

The token model

Pay per sitting, forever.

  • Tokens bought in bulk batches - use them or lose them
  • Unused tokens expire; wasted spend every year
  • Growth is punished: more candidates, more tokens
  • Perpetual contract, no asset at the end
  • Feature requests wait on vendor negotiation
The Invigil model

One build. Unlimited sittings. You own it.

  • Single fixed build fee - the platform is yours outright
  • No tokens, no per-sitting or per-candidate charges
  • First year of maintenance and support included
  • Optional support retainer from year two - cancel any time
  • Your exam content and candidate data, exclusively yours
£0
per-sitting cost, at any volume
0%
platform ownership from day one
sittings, candidates and retakes
Industries

Who Invigil is for.

Higher education

Deliver assessment with integrity and a student experience that doesn't generate support tickets, while staff mark and return results in a fraction of the time.

Awarding bodies & government

Certification at scale, with the quality-assurance trail and evidence retention your accreditation depends on.

Language testing

Purpose-built for IELTS-format papers: listening tracks with play rules, side-by-side reading PDFs, band-score conversion out of the box.

Professional certification

Secure, scalable assessment for corporate training, licensing and workforce development, on hardware your people already have.

Governance

Built for the appeal, the audit and the DPO.

UK data residency

All hosting and storage within the United Kingdom, encrypted at rest and in transit.

GDPR by design

Candidates see exactly what is recorded. Configurable retention; deletion, not archival, past the window.

Accessibility without compromise

Approved assistive tools are allowlisted and never closed by lockdown. Captions available for listening tracks.

No AI training - ever

Session records and recordings are never used to train models. Human examiners make every decision.

Honest enforcement reporting

Every session states the lockdown level actually achieved on that machine - no false confidence.

Single-password candidates

Identity is assured by ID capture and webcam match, not a second device that breaks proctoring rules.

Offline-resilient sittings

Network drops don't end exams. Work continues locally and syncs, in order, on reconnection.

Evidence pack export

PDF + media bundle per session, checksummed, ready for the appeal file.

Questions

The things every panel asks.

Does Invigil decide whether a student cheated?

No. It records what happened and surfaces it for review. Every outcome is an examiner's decision, with the underlying evidence attached.

What if a student's laptop can't be fully locked down?

The sitting still runs, and the session records the enforcement level actually achieved. Examiners see the difference rather than assuming one.

What happens when the internet drops mid-exam?

Nothing visible to the candidate. Answers are written to disk every couple of seconds and upload in order once the connection returns.

Do we need a second device for authentication or proctoring?

No. One username, one password, and a webcam match against captured ID.

How is it priced?

A single fixed build fee with the first year of support included, then an optional retainer. No per-sitting or per-candidate charges at any volume.

Next step

See your own exam running in Invigil.

Bring one of your current papers. We'll author it live, sit it, and replay the evidence - thirty minutes, no slides.

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