Admin settings

Admin settings — screenshot pending

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This page is for administrators. Proctoring’s site-wide defaults are under Site administration → Plugins → (Quiz access rules) → Proctoring. These defaults apply to any quiz that doesn’t override them.

Key site defaults

Setting	Default	Purpose
Default capture interval	30 s	How often a snapshot is taken during a quiz.
Default image resolution	480p	Higher resolution means larger files.
Default retention days	90	Snapshots older than this are deleted automatically.
Trust-score notify threshold	60	Teachers are notified about attempts scoring below this.
Block mobile by default	Yes	Prevents proctored quizzes on phones/tablets.
Institution privacy policy URL	—	Linked from the student consent screen.

Privacy and data retention

Proctoring captures personal data (webcam images and consent records), so it’s built around the Moodle Privacy API:

• Automatic retention — a daily scheduled task deletes images older than the retention period you set. (Moodle cron must be running.)
• Right to erasure — you can delete all proctoring data for a specific user, removing their snapshots, violation records, and session records.
• Data export — all stored data, including the consent record, is included in Moodle’s standard privacy/data-export tools.

Set the privacy policy URL so students see your institution’s policy on the consent screen, and choose a retention period that matches your data-protection obligations.