Activity Monitoring gives teachers a timestamped view of what happens on a student's device during a quiz. It is built for teachers who need confidence, trust and reliability in assessment.
This gives teachers a start-to-finish view of student participation in Socrative so you can better manage assessment integrity and intervene when necessary, all while measuring student learning progress.
Activity Monitoring provides context, not conclusions. Recorded activity can't prove on its own whether a student acted with academic integrity. Use it alongside your own classroom knowledge and any follow-up with the student.
Who can use Activity Monitoring?
Activity Monitoring is available in Assessments with the Insights Suite Add-on.
You turn it on for each assessment session, so you decide when it's appropriate. For example, use it for an official assessment and leave it off for low-stakes classroom activities.
💡 Activity Monitoring is off by default.
Turn on Activity Monitoring
Open the assignment and select Add Assessment.
Go to the Launch tab.
Select Assessment, then choose the assessment you want to launch.
Choose your Delivery Method and assessment settings.
Turn on Activity Monitoring.
Review your settings and click Launch.
Before they start, students see a notice listing the kinds of activity that are recorded. Recording begins once the assessment starts.
View activity during an assessment
Open the Live Results tab for the assessment.
Select Activity Monitoring.
The view updates as students work. Some events can take 20–30 seconds to appear.
Activity Monitoring can record:
Focus loss and time away, when a student moves away from the assessment (for example, to another tab, window, or app)
Window resizing
Pasting text that was copied from outside the assessment. Copying and pasting within the assessment isn't recorded.
For each student, you can see the type of activity, when it happened, how long they were away, and the number of events. Each event includes a short explanation, including common non-cheating causes such as translate or read-aloud tools. You can filter events by signal strength. Student names are hidden by default.
✍️ Very brief focus changes may not be recorded, so an accidental, momentary switch may not appear.
Review activity after an assessment
Activity stays available after the session ends.
Open the assessment results and select the Activity tab.
Select a student to see their activity timeline.
Activity is visible only to the teacher who ran the assessment and to co-teachers. Administrators can't view it unless they sign in as that teacher. Activity data stays in Showbie and can't be exported.
What Activity Monitoring can and can't do
It can:
Record activity on the device and browser the student is using for the asessment
Show supported events, such as a student leaving the assessment
Fullscreen: Student entered or exited Fullscreen mode.
Paste: Text was pasted into an answer field from outside of the assessment, this is capped at 150 characters.
Tab switch: Student navigated to a new or existing tab.
Focus: The quiz window stopped being the active window.
Window resize: The browser/app window changed size.
Right-click: The student right-clicked or long pressed somewhere on the page. This can signal that they were trying to copy, search, or inspect something through the context menu.
Copy: Student copied text from the assessment. This can signal that content was lifted to save or reuse somewhere else.
It can't:
Detect activity on another device, such as a separate phone, tablet, or computer
Tell you whether a student cheated
Penalize a student, change their score, or remove them from a quiz
Each student's timeline holds up to 300 events and up to 10 attempts. Showbie Assessments reports what it observes. It's up to you and your school to interpret it in context, along with anything else you know about the situation.
🚨 Please note that there can be false positives associated with Assistive Tools. They can occur (but not limited to) when using screen readers, translation tools, and other assistive extensions sometimes live in their own tab that a student switches to routinely, Reflexive muscle-memory Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C without intent, Assistive tools like screen readers may copy text to read aloud.