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Integrity policy

What ZyadaBand records when a student sits a paper, what a parent is entitled to be told before that paper starts, and where the platform's responsibility stops.

Which plan applies

Every sitting runs on one of two plans

An institute must know which one it is using, and must be able to tell a parent the same thing in one sentence.

Plan

Monitored Sitting

The standard integrity plan for every live ZyadaBand test link, on every paid package.

Applies when

  • The student opens a live test link, enrolment link or dispatch link.
  • The attempt has been started and has not yet been submitted.
  • The paper is a real mock the institute is running for its students.

What is recorded

  • Inactivity: 30 seconds with no pointer, key, touch, wheel or scroll input is stored as a yellow mark; 60 seconds as a red mark.
  • Leaving the test: the browser tab being hidden or the test window losing focus is stored as a separate mark.
  • The paper and section: student name, roll number, institute, teacher, test, module, a duration where relevant, and the time of each mark.

Not part of this plan

  • No camera, microphone or screen recording.
  • No lockdown browser and no control over other tabs or applications.
  • No detection of a second device, a second person, screen-sharing or pre-prepared answers.
  • No human invigilator watching the student.
Plan

Unmonitored Practice

A practice sitting that runs outside a live ZyadaBand attempt, or a demo paper. Nothing is recorded.

Applies when

  • The student practises on the public demo paper.
  • The sitting happens on paper or on another platform.
  • The institute runs a ZyadaBand paper with seat enforcement switched off, and the runner is told not to record.

What is recorded

  • Nothing. No integrity mark, no streak change and no alert is written for an unmonitored sitting.

Not part of this plan

  • No integrity record of any kind.
  • No eligibility for a Free Redo Cover streak from that sitting.
  • Nothing ZyadaBand can show a parent about how the paper was sat.

Every paid package — Basic, Starter, Pro and Enterprise — includes the same integrity engine. The plan a sitting runs on depends on how the sitting is run, not on the package the institute bought.

An institute must tell parents which plan applies — before the sitting

ZyadaBand does not contact parents, and does not decide what a parent is told. The institute running the paper must state the plan clearly, in writing, so no parent can later believe the sitting was more closely supervised than it was.

Read the full disclosure duty

What this is not

ZyadaBand's monitoring is a lightweight integrity record inside the test runner. It is useful, it is silent, and it makes casual rule-breaking visible. It is not an exam-security system and it does not make a sitting secure on its own.

  • It does not use a webcam, microphone or screen recorder.
  • It does not install a lockdown browser or control other tabs and applications.
  • It cannot see a second phone, a second person in the room, a shared screen or an answer prepared in advance.
  • It does not verify who is sitting the paper.
  • It does not stop a student from cheating; it records that the sitting was unusual.
Version 2026-11 · updated 5 November 2026

The policy, in plain terms

No legal fog. Each section says what happens, in the order a sitting happens.

1

What a Monitored Sitting records

A monitored sitting produces a small, factual record attached to one attempt. It is written silently while the student works; the student is never told which signal fired.

  • A yellow mark after 30 seconds without any pointer, key, touch, wheel or scroll input.
  • A red mark after 60 seconds of the same inactivity, plus a reason-free notice on screen.
  • A mark when the browser tab is hidden, and a separate mark when the test window loses focus while still visible.
  • For every mark: the attempt, student name and roll number, institute, teacher, test, module, the idle duration where relevant, and the time.
  • Time spent with the tab hidden is counted as leaving the sitting, not as inactivity, so one absence is never punished twice.

Reading a passage or listening carefully without moving the mouse can produce a red mark. That is expected, and it is why the student is shown a notice instead of an accusation and why an institute should review a record before drawing a conclusion.

2

What the student is shown

The student is never told what triggered a mark — not the idle timer, not the mouse, not the tab switch. Telling a student the trigger is telling them how to avoid it.

At the red threshold the student sees one short, reason-free integrity notice and a single button to continue. The paper is not paused, and nothing about the notice changes the questions, the timer or the answers.

The existing warning about switching tabs is a separate notice that the institute's link already shows. It is not generated by the integrity engine.

3

Who can see the record

Integrity records are reviewed by the ZyadaBand team that operates the platform, through the platform owner's Integrity desk and by email alert. They are not displayed in the teacher portal or the student portal, so a mark is never shown to a class as a score or a public accusation.

Records are used to review sittings, to answer a query from an institute, to keep the Free Redo Cover honest, and to keep a month-scoped backup of how papers were sat. They are not used for advertising.

An institute that needs a record reviewed for one of its students can ask the ZyadaBand team through the contact details on this page.

4

What the institute must tell parents

This is the obligation the rest of this policy exists to support. Before a sitting, the institute must tell the student's parent or guardian, clearly and in writing, which integrity plan applies to that sitting.

  • Name the plan: say plainly that the sitting is on the Monitored Sitting plan, or say plainly that it is an Unmonitored Practice sitting.
  • Say what Monitored Sitting records: inactivity, leaving the test tab, and losing focus on the test window.
  • Say that a reason-free integrity notice may appear on screen during the paper, and that it means the sitting is being recorded — not that the student has been found cheating.
  • Say that the record belongs to that attempt and that a red mark or a tab switch makes the attempt ineligible for the Free Redo Cover streak.
  • Name the person at the institute a parent should contact with a question or an appeal about a record.

An institute must not describe a Monitored Sitting as fully proctored, invigilated, cheat-proof or secured. ZyadaBand is not an invigilator and does not lock down the student's device. If a parent is told more than the plan delivers, that expectation belongs to the institute that created it.

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How this affects the Free Redo Cover

A clean streak is built from complete papers with no red mark and no tab switch. A yellow mark does not break a streak; a red mark or a tab switch does. A paper that does not contain every module the test has — for example a link narrowed to Listening only — is a practice paper and never counts toward a streak.

The full Free Redo Cover terms are separate from this policy and are accepted by the institute when the add-on is enabled.

6

Retention, deletion and backups

Integrity marks and streak records stay with the attempt until the student is removed. Deleting a student deletes that student's attempts, integrity marks and streak records; deleting a single attempt deletes the marks and streaks attached to it. ZyadaBand does not keep a hidden copy of what an institute removed from its own roster.

Separately, ZyadaBand keeps month-scoped backup archives of integrity records, grouped by institute, teacher and student, for security and for answering a dispute. These archives are held by the ZyadaBand team, not by the institute.

7

Responsibility

ZyadaBand is responsible for operating the monitoring described for the plan a sitting actually ran on. ZyadaBand is not an examination centre, an invigilator or a guarantee that a paper was sat cleanly.

ZyadaBand is not responsible for a sitting that ran without monitoring, for a parent's expectation that a sitting was monitored where the institute did not disclose the plan, or for cheating the platform cannot detect. Where an institute has not told a parent which plan applies, any expectation that the sitting was secured belongs to the institute.

Nothing in this policy removes a right a parent or student has under applicable law, and nothing here makes an institute's own promises on ZyadaBand's behalf.

8

Changes and questions

This policy is reviewed when the integrity engine changes. The version and date are shown on this page; an institute that has told parents about a plan should tell them again if the plan changes.

Questions about this policy, or about a specific record, go to the ZyadaBand team through the contact page.

ZyadaBand integrity policy · version 2026-11 · 5 November 2026

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