Does ExamX require Canvas or Blackboard?

No. ExamX is standalone — it authors, delivers, proctors and grades exams itself, on web, iPad and Android, with offline support. There is no LMS dependency and no browser-extension requirement.

Can ExamX proctor exams outside an LMS?

Yes — that is its normal mode. Entrance exams, certification assessments and multi-campus semester cycles run natively on ExamX with AI proctoring at up to 100,000+ concurrent candidates.

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ExamX vs Honorlock

Honorlock proctors quizzes inside Canvas and Blackboard through a Chrome extension. ExamX runs the whole exam — authoring, delivery, AI proctoring, AI evaluation and analytics — with no LMS dependency at all.

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Honorlock has a deserved reputation for low-friction proctoring in higher education: it runs as a Chrome browser extension inside Canvas and Blackboard, with AI monitoring that can escalate to a live proctor popping into a session. For LMS-based course exams, students barely leave their existing workflow.

The LMS is also its boundary: the LMS authors, delivers and grades the exam — Honorlock watches. ExamX by Greatify is the platform for exams that outgrow that model: entrance tests, multi-campus semester cycles, handwritten descriptive papers and national-scale concurrency, all in one system that works with or without an LMS.

ExamX vs Honorlock: at a glance

Capability

ExamX

Honorlock

What it is

Full AI-native exam platform — author, deliver, proctor, evaluate, analyse

Proctoring layer inside your LMS

LMS / browser dependency

None — runs standalone on web, iPad and Android, offline-capable

Canvas/Blackboard via LTI; requires Google Chrome

Proctoring

AI at 99.2% accuracy, <0.1% false positives; flags human-reviewed

AI monitoring with live-proctor pop-in escalation

Question authoring

AI generation — 20+ types, Bloom's coverage, moderated banks

None — your LMS quiz tool

Handwritten descriptive exams

Tablets + stylus, rubric-aware AI evaluation with faculty override

Not offered

Grading

Automatic — objective and AI-evaluated subjective answers

None — LMS gradebook

Analytics

Item- and cohort-level, instant at cycle close

Session and incident reports

Exams beyond the LMS

Built for them — entrance, certification, multi-campus cycles at 100,000+ concurrent

Not its lane

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Why teams choose ExamX

No LMS ceiling

Entrance tests, external candidates and multi-campus semester exams don't live in Canvas. ExamX runs them natively — SRM's 80,000+ paperless exams across five campuses ran on it end to end.

The whole exam, not the watching

Honorlock supervises an exam your LMS runs. ExamX authors the paper with AI, delivers it, proctors it, evaluates the answers and reports the analytics — one system, one contract.

Real university answer formats

Long-form handwritten papers, diagrams and equations on tablets, evaluated by rubric-aware AI with faculty override — beyond what an LMS quiz plus a proctoring extension can attempt.

ExamX vs Honorlock — FAQs

Yes — when your exams outgrow the LMS. ExamX runs the full lifecycle with no LMS or Chrome dependency: AI authoring, delivery on web and tablets with offline support, AI proctoring at 99.2% accuracy, AI evaluation of handwritten descriptive answers, and instant analytics. If everything you examine lives happily in Canvas quizzes, Honorlock's plugin model is less change.

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