AI Overlay for Pearson OnVUE Live Proctor on Mac

Pearson VUE's OnVUE platform delivers the high-stakes IT and professional certifications most working engineers eventually sit for: AWS, Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, ITIL, PMP, and dozens more. On Mac it ships as a notarized native app with a live human proctor watching through a WebRTC stream.

OnVUE is a thick Mac client signed and notarized by Pearson. After the room scan, biometric photo, and ID upload, the app pins itself to the foreground, captures the screen at the OS level via ScreenCaptureKit (the same API screen-recording apps use), and pushes a live WebRTC stream to a Pearson proctor pool. The proctor watches the stream, talks to you over the webcam, and can pause the exam if they see something suspicious. The capture path is the part Fracture intersects: ScreenCaptureKit honors per-window exclusion at the compositor level, so a window flagged private is composited to the display but skipped when frames are handed back to OnVUE. The webcam, microphone, identity, and room scan are unrelated to the overlay and operate normally. Pearson's most recent OnVUE candidate tech requirements (v.26.4) still list macOS 12+ as supported, and the secure-browser process check on Sonoma is well documented as catching legitimate Apple features like Stage Manager and Universal Control rather than user-mode overlays.

OnVUE check looks for known bad processes by name (other proctor-blocking tools, virtualization, remote desktop). Fracture uses a randomized innocuous bundle ID per build, so it does not match any of OnVUE named blocklists.

Eye-tracking only knows where your gaze lands on the physical monitor. The proctor sees a video stream of your face plus a video stream of your screen; both show you reading what looks like the exam window.

All of them. The OnVUE capture pipeline is shared across AWS, Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, ITIL, PMP and the rest of the catalog.

macOS "share entire screen" path still goes through the same compositor, so flagged windows remain absent from the share.

Yes, follow Pearson standard Sonoma advice (disable Stage Manager, Handoff, Universal Control). Those are unrelated to the overlay and are required for OnVUE secure-browser check to pass at all.