Yes — usually, but not always in the way people assume. Examity is one of the few proctoring platforms that offers multiple service levels, and what happens during your exam depends entirely on which level your institution or employer purchased. "Is Examity proctored" really means "which of these three am I about to sit?"
The three proctoring levels
1. Live proctoring. A real human watches you in real time through your webcam, listens to your room audio, and can interrupt or end the session. This is the strictest option and the least common.
2. Automated proctoring. No human watches live. Your webcam video, audio, and screen activity are recorded and analyzed; flags are generated for behavior like leaving the frame, voices in the room, or suspicious eye movement, and a human reviews the flagged clips afterward. Most "Examity is AI-proctored" complaints refer to this level.
3. Review-only / no proctoring. Some configurations just log session metadata, or Examity is used purely as the test-delivery platform with monitoring off. Employers and schools using it for straightforward assessments sometimes choose this.
You cannot tell which level applies from the name "Examity" alone. You can tell from what happens in the first five minutes:
- Asked for a webcam check and a 360-degree room scan? Automated or live proctoring.
- A proctor speaks to you before the exam and stays visible in chat/video? Live.
- Never prompted for camera or microphone? Probably review-only or monitoring off.
What gets recorded
At the automated and live levels, assume all of it: continuous webcam video, room audio, on-screen activity, session metadata, and a timestamped flag log. The recording belongs to the institution's account, and their policy decides how long it is kept and who can watch it. That's worth knowing if you sit the same platform for several employers.
How to prepare (and avoid false flags)
- Complete the setup check in good lighting with your face clearly visible; backlighting causes detection dropouts that look like suspicious gaps.
- Stay in frame, including when thinking. Leaning out of view is the single most common flag.
- Run the room scan properly the first time — skipped scans generate more attention than anything else.
- Close every unrelated application and second screen you weren't told you could use.
- Tell anyone in your home that you're in a monitored exam. A passer-by registers exactly like a collaborator.
- Use a stable connection; dropped video reads as a gap in coverage.
If you're flagged for something innocent, request to review the specific timestamp and explain it. Flags are leads, not verdicts — an instructor can see the difference between a stretch and a cheat once you point out what happened at 00:41:12.
For employers and administrators choosing proctoring
Examity's tiered model makes it a reasonable fit when you match the level to the risk: high-stakes licensure-style assessments justify live or automated review; routine screening rarely needs either, and heavy monitoring on entry-level assessments suppresses completion among exactly the passive candidates sourcing efforts try to reach. Whatever level you choose, disclose it in the invitation — undisclosed monitoring is a trust problem and in some jurisdictions a legal one.
The larger design question is what your assessment is meant to measure. Monitoring protects test integrity; it doesn't tell you whether a candidate can do the job. Sequencing the evaluation method, scoring criteria, and integrity settings as one pipeline rather than three bolted-together checks is what makes screening at volume defensible. AI candidate evaluation covers how assessment signals get combined into one ranked shortlist instead of separate manual reviews.
Bottom line
Examity is proctored at both live and automated levels, but it also runs configurations with no active proctoring — the platform's first camera prompt tells you which you're in. Assume video, audio, and screen are recorded at every monitored level, prepare your room and lighting to avoid false flags, and escalate any wrongful flag to the specific timestamp rather than denying generally.