Personal laptops have long been a fixture in the classroom. Now, with sophisticated locked down capabilities to secure assessments, you can make better use of your institution’s estate to turn any room into an assessment ready space with students using their own device.
Traditionally, if you wanted to run a digital assessment, your capacity was constrained by the size of your computer labs. Large, fixed position desktop computers requiring space and maintenance were either few in number, rendering it impossible to have a single cohort sit their exam at the same time, or were quickly booked up meaning some exams could be digitised while others had to remain on paper. This logistical conundrum acted as a blocker to digital assessment scaling.
At the same time, forcing students to use an unfamiliar machine during the time pressure of an exam introduced unnecessary stress for candidates. Their performance should be a function of their mastery of a subject, not sudden friction with an unfamiliar hardware environment. Traditional pen and paper exams fail to reflect professional reality, or a student’s own teaching and learning experience.
Higher education needs digital infrastructure that is flexible, scalable and with as little student friction as possible.
Inspera Assessment coupled with Inspera Integrity Browser resolves these tensions by turning personal student devices into secure examination environments. Designed natively to support bring your own device deployment, the platform allows universities to scale assessments across existing spaces, reduce hardware overheads, and deliver authentic digital assessments that prepare graduates for the professional world.
Locked down to prevent external accessTo ensure the integrity of your assessments, they need to run in the secure environment created by Inspera Integrity Browser. While taking an assessment, students are prevented from accessing their files, applications, the internet and generative AI. All they can access is their assessment and any resources that you specifically permit, such as PDFs or specific URLs. Any specifically authorised URL renders inside Inspera Integrity Browser and does not allow access to the wider internet.
By enforcing a controlled, uniform examination environment directly on unmanaged personal devices, institutions mitigates security vulnerabilities without requiring specialised IT infrastructure or adding an unsustainable monitoring burden to invigilation staff. This allows the institution to confidently expand secure bring your own device exams while upholding academic integrity.
Student centric experienceInspera Assessment operates as an intuitive, web-based platform that allows students to complete examinations on their own laptops. Candidates interact with a familiar interface, utilising their own keyboard layouts, shortcut keys, and trackpad configurations.
Reduces candidate anxiety and ensures digital confidence, allowing students to focus their cognitive capacity entirely on the assessment task rather than the delivery tool. This protects academic performance data from being skewed by environmental friction.
Familiar accessibility toolsFor students who need accessibility tools, using ones they are familiar with on their own device reduces anxiety over the environment they would meet on a device in a computer lab. Inspera Assessment is compatible with a wide range of accessibility tools and has a built in text to speech interface and a range of text and background colour options.
Focus academic support resources on student support and wellbeing, instead of installing multiple software versions in your computer lab.
Assessment scaleBy decoupling the size of your computer lab from the ability to run large scale digital assessments, you can use your estate to greater effect and not have to resort to pen and paper exams. Inspera’s bring your own device capabilities allows you to simultaneously run secure assessments for large cohorts of students.
Relive scheduling pressures on your institutional estate and assets and expand the use of digital assessment, all without investing in more computer labs.
Cost savingsConfidently introducing a bring your own device strategy significantly lowers institutional expenditure on additional computer hardware, ongoing maintenance, and the internal resource needed to execute hardware updates.
Reduce the costly cycle of purchasing and maintaining institutional hardware. Maintaining additional computer laboratories diverts vital resources away from frontline teaching and learning. Transitioning to a BYOD model allows university leaders to reclaim these funds and redirect them into high-impact academic priorities. This money can be reinvested into robust, campus-wide Wi-Fi infrastructure, essential software licensing, or targeted laptop loan schemes that directly support equity and student retention. It ensures that limited institutional funding is spent where it benefits the student experience most, rather than on maintaining physical workstations.
Remove the constraints of fixed hardware and limited room capacity.
Speak with our team to see how Inspera turns student laptops into secure, offline-resilient exam spaces, lowering your costs and freeing up your campus estate.
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