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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?
What is Certification Management Software? Certification management software is a system used to create, track, administer, and maintain professional certifications across an organization or credentialing body. It centralizes exam delivery, credential issuance, expiration tracking, and compliance reporting into one platform. For organizations managing certification programs at scale, this matters more than it sounds. When your … 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
Gauge + Virtual Proctoring: A Seamless Integration for Secure Exams
Whether you’re delivering high-stakes certification exams or internal assessments, maintaining test integrity is non-negotiable. That’s why Gauge Online offers seamless virtual proctoring integration with leading providers like ProctorFree, ProctorU, and others. This powerful capability ensures secure, monitored testing without the hassle—making it easier than ever to uphold trust across your assessment programs. Gauge gives administrators … Read Article
How to Design Custom Certification Paths in Gauge
In today’s competitive landscape, learners and employers value structured certification programs over disconnected tests. That’s why Gauge offers robust tools for building custom certification paths with automated progress rules, prerequisites, and branded credentials. Start by defining your core certification outcomes. Then use Gauge to build a logical sequence of exams, training modules, or tasks (we … Read Article
Scaling Exams Across Multiple Groups Without Losing Control
When it comes to managing certification programs at scale, few features are as critical as User Group Scalability. As organizations grow and diversify their testing audiences—by department, geography, or partner channel—the need to segment access, assign tailored content, and automate permissions becomes essential. Gauge Online was purpose-built to handle this complexity with ease. Gauge’s user … Read Article
How to Build Dynamic, Randomized Exams with Gauge
One of the biggest threats to exam integrity is predictability. When learners can share question sets or memorize answers from previous attempts, your certification loses credibility. That’s why Gauge equips you with powerful question randomization tools designed to keep assessments secure, dynamic, and fair—every time. With Gauge, you build robust question banks by topic … Read Article
What’s the difference between micro-credentialing and badging and are they worth the effort?
The difference between micro credentialing and badging is simply that micro credentialing is short, highly-focused, and typically digital skills learning and assessment, and badging is the digital proof of the exam’s successful completion. In this article we’ll explain how each is different, how they work together to build a skilled workforce, and why they might … Read Article
How to Prepare Employees for Remote Certification
There are a few key things to consider when you’re planning how to prepare employees for remote certification. Whether remote team members are sitting for a one-time test or will need to be regularly re-certified, you can make the process easier by following these guidelines: Use a secure online exam software solution that lets you … Read Article