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Coding Exam & Academic Integrity Glossary
Key terms for running fair, secure coding exams — in plain English.
Examination Center is in early access — we're onboarding institutions through our Early Access Program. The information here describes our current platform and direction and may evolve; it is not a contractual commitment.
Terms
- AI-free exam
- An exam environment with no built-in AI assistant and no code autocomplete, so results reflect the student's own ability. Examination Center's editor is AI-free by design.
- Academic integrity
- The principle that assessment reflects a student's own work. Examination Center supports it with an AI-free environment and integrity evidence for human review — it does not assign guilt or grades.
- Integrity evidence
- Signals captured during an exam — such as paste events, large or sudden code changes, and cross-student code similarity — shown to instructors as evidence for human review, never as automated accusations.
- Code similarity
- A comparison across students' submissions that highlights unusually similar code for an instructor to review. It is evidence, not a verdict.
- Live monitoring
- Watching exam sessions in real time — current code, run history, and integrity signals — so instructors can oversee an exam as it happens.
- Proctoring vs monitoring
- Restrictive proctoring software controls the student's device and often records them. Examination Center instead provides a controlled, AI-free workspace with live monitoring and integrity evidence, without taking over the student's machine.
- Browser-based execution
- Running code in the student's web browser with nothing to install. Examination Center runs Python in the browser via Pyodide.
- Pyodide
- A build of CPython compiled to WebAssembly that runs Python — including NumPy, pandas, and Matplotlib — entirely in the browser.
- Sandboxed execution
- Running compiled languages (C, C++, Fortran, Java) on the server inside an isolated sandbox with restricted resources and no network access, so untrusted exam code runs safely.
- Autosave and session recovery
- Continuous saving of a student's work locally and to the server, so a frozen browser or a fresh session can be recovered without losing work.
- Roster
- The list of students permitted to sit an exam section, imported by the instructor and used to control access.
- Section
- A group within an exam (for example Section A / B) with its own access code and optional roster requirement.
- Active learner
- A distinct student who sits at least one exam during a term — the unit Examination Center's pricing is based on.
- LTI
- Learning Tools Interoperability, a standard for launching external tools from a learning management system. Examination Center supports secure launch links today, with LTI 1.3 planned.
- FERPA
- A US law governing the privacy of student education records. Examination Center is designed to support institutions' FERPA obligations.
- GDPR
- The EU/EEA data-protection regulation. Examination Center is designed to act as a processor under a data processing agreement.
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