In-person exams
Run secure exams in your own venue
Purpose-built for test centres, computer labs and invigilated halls — with orderly, staggered entry, staff-controlled access, network and location restrictions, and resilience for real on-site networks.
- Test centres & labs
- Controlled, orderly entry
- On-site network resilience
Lab 3 · Certification exam
Locked to venue network · 203.0.113.0/24
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The challenge
A venue exam has its own rules
Running an exam in a room full of candidates is a different problem from a quiz on a laptop. Everyone starts together, on the same local network, in a place you control — and the platform has to work with that, not against it.
Synap is built for the venue: orderly entry so a room of candidates doesn’t overwhelm the network at 09:00, access locked to your site, and resilience for the realities of on-premise connections.
A web app in a computer lab
- ✕ Everyone hits “start” at the same second
- ✕ Reachable from any network, anywhere
- ✕ Access controlled by hand
Built for the venue
- Staggered, orderly entry
- Locked to your on-site network
- Passcodes and staff-controlled unlock
Why it matters
Why the exam hall breaks generic tools
The things that make a venue controlled also concentrate pressure that day-to-day software never faces.
Everyone starts at once
A whole room hitting “begin” together spikes the local network and the platform in the same instant — orderly entry isn’t optional.
You need to restrict access
Only candidates in the room, on approved devices and networks, should be able to reach the exam — and only when staff say so.
Local networks are fragile
Venue Wi-Fi, shared connections and on-premise kit fail in ways a resilient exam has to absorb without losing anyone’s work.
“A room full of candidates is not the same as one person on a laptop — and your platform should know the difference.”
Orderly entry
Get a room of candidates in, calmly
Stagger start times or hold candidates in a queue so entry into the exam is orderly, instead of a stampede the moment the clock strikes nine.
Keep exams locked until it’s time — unlocked manually by your staff, or with a passcode issued to candidates in the room. You decide exactly when the exam opens.
Staggered start & queueing
Spread entry over a window for a calm, orderly start.
Staff-controlled unlock
Invigilators open the exam when the room is ready.
Passcode entry
Issue a passcode to candidates to unlock their exam.
Locked to your environment
On your devices, your network, your brand
Restrict access by IP or CIDR range so exams can only be reached from your venue’s network — nowhere else. Zero-install proctoring suits the locked-down, firewalled devices most institutions run.
Put it all behind your own custom domain and branding for simple, secure integration with your internal systems and networks — and rely on resilience built in at every layer to handle the realities of local connections.
IP & CIDR restrictions
Limit access to your venue’s network ranges.
Custom domain & white-labelling
Run under your own domain for clean, secure internal integration.
Network resilience
Built in at every layer to absorb local network hiccups.
Everything the venue needs
Built for the exam hall
The controls that turn a browser and a lab full of PCs into a secure, invigilated exam.
Flexible enrolment
Enrol candidates via API, distributable vouchers or the admin UI.
Locked exams
Exams stay locked until unlocked by staff or a candidate passcode.
Staggered entry & queueing
Bring a whole room in over an orderly window, not all at once.
IP & CIDR restrictions
Allow access only from your venue’s approved networks.
Custom domain
White-label under your own domain for secure internal integration.
Zero-install proctoring
Ideal for the locked-down, firewalled devices institutions run.
Running remote sittings too?
Synap supports hybrid delivery — configure some sittings to run in person and others remotely, from the same exam.
Part of one platform
Everything an in-person exam needs
In-venue delivery is one part of Synap. Combine it with the rest of the platform, or explore the full overview.
See the full online exam platformControl the environment
Planning a venue-based exam?
Bring your exams into the room, under control
Book a demo and we’ll show you how Synap runs secure, orderly, in-person exams in your labs and test centres.
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