AI Overlay for MonitorEDU (Live Phone Proctor) on Mac

MonitorEDU is a hybrid proctor: a live human watches you over your phone's rear camera (positioned to view your face and screen from a distance), while a Mac app records the screen at the same time. The phone-camera angle is intentionally hard for software-only countermeasures to defeat.

MonitorEDU's value proposition is that the phone-camera angle catches things software-only proctors miss: a printed cheat sheet, a second device on the desk, eye drift toward an off-screen monitor. For an on-screen overlay, MonitorEDU's screen-recording app works the same as any other: ScreenCaptureKit on Mac filters out windows we flag private. The phone camera, however, is a separate physical sensor pointed at your physical monitor - software invisibility does not help. If your exam runs through MonitorEDU and the proctor is watching your screen via phone camera, the overlay will be visible in that camera frame.

Some MonitorEDU exams allow a face-only angle. If yours does, the overlay is fully invisible because the phone never sees the screen. Check your specific exam instructions.

No. A dimmed window is still pixels on the screen and still visible to a physical camera. The privacy flag is a software-level filter, not optical.

That is what the privacy flag protects against. The screen recording does not contain the overlay. Only the phone camera sees physical pixels.