Online Exam Privacy: Protecting Your Screen

Online exam proctoring captures your screen, webcam, and sometimes audio during tests. Understanding your privacy options helps you make informed decisions about what monitoring software can access.

Proctoring software typically requires screen capture permission, webcam access, and sometimes microphone access on macOS. While you cannot avoid the webcam or microphone requirements, you can control which windows appear in screen captures. macOS provides system-level APIs that let windows opt out of screen capture entirely. Fracture uses these APIs to create a private AI overlay that never appears in captured content. Your exam, webcam, and browser activity are captured normally.