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Insights, trends, and lessons learned through 30 years of experience as an online exam software and certification management solution for organizations with advanced testing needs.
What Are Digital Badges and How Do They Work?
Digital badges are verifiable, portable credentials issued in electronic format that contain embedded metadata about what was earned, who earned it, who issued it, and when it expires. For a university student, a digital badge might represent completing a workshop or demonstrating a skill. For a professional certification program, a digital badge is the credential … Read Article
How Students Cheat on Online Exams (And How to Stop It)
Candidates cheat on online exams in five main ways: using unauthorized devices to look up answers, accessing AI tools during the exam, hiring someone else to take the exam remotely, memorizing leaked questions from braindump sites before the exam, and sharing exam content with others after sitting. For a university course, any of these is … Read Article
LMS Migration for Certification Programs: Protect Your Data
Plan an LMS Migration Around the Records You Must Keep An LMS migration moves learning content, user information, and program records from one platform to another. For a certification program, the work should begin with a data inventory and a decision about which system will own each record after cutover. Course completions may be only … Read Article
How to Manage Certification Programs at Scale
Managing a certification program at scale means keeping a complex, high-stakes operation running cleanly as candidate volume grows, credential types multiply, and the administrative burden compounds faster than your team does. For programs serving hundreds or thousands of candidates, the challenge is not building the program — it is keeping it from breaking under its … Read Article
Employee Certification Tracking: Choose the Right System
Employee certification tracking starts with one important distinction: Are you recording credentials that employees earned from outside organizations, or are you managing credentials that your own program administers and issues? Those are different jobs. A human resources system or credential repository can collect copies of external licenses and certificates. A certification management platform supports the … Read Article
What is an Online Testing Platform?
An online testing platform is software that lets you build, deliver, and score exams over the internet — without paper, manual grading, or a physical testing room. Get the platform right and you can process thousands of candidates a year with confidence. Get it wrong and you’re patching spreadsheets the night before an exam window … Read Article
Honorlock Proctoring: What It Is and How It Works for Certification Programs
Honorlock is a remote proctoring platform that monitors exam candidates online using a combination of AI and live human proctors. For organizations managing professional certification programs, it provides a way to enforce exam integrity without requiring candidates to travel to a physical testing center. That matters when your candidates are spread across time zones, employers, … Read Article
What is Online Proctoring?
Online proctoring is the use of technology to monitor exam candidates remotely during a test session — verifying their identity before the exam begins, monitoring their environment and behavior throughout, and producing a documented record of the session for review. For professional certification programs, online proctoring is what makes it possible to deliver high-stakes exams … Read Article
What Is Certification Management Software? A Practical Buyer’s Guide
Certification management software is a platform for administering the rules, assessments, credentials, and status records behind a certification program. It can help an organization manage how people qualify, demonstrate competence, receive a credential, and maintain that credential over time. The category is not standardized, however. One platform may focus on applications and eligibility review. Another … Read Article
Setting Exam Time Limits & Exceptions for Specific Students
In today’s diverse learning environments, supporting each learner’s unique needs is not just beneficial—it’s essential. Gauge offers powerful tools to manage a timed exam with individual accommodations while maintaining the integrity and standardization expected in professional assessments. This flexibility helps educators and administrators create fair testing conditions without unnecessary complexity. With Gauge, exam administrators can … Read Article