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 on Socrative Pro, for quizzes run in a rostered room.
You turn it on for each quiz session, so you decide when it's appropriate. For example, use it for an official assessment and leave it off for low-stakes practice.
💡 Activity Monitoring is off by default.
If you move from Pro to a lower plan, you can still view activity from your past sessions for 30 days. After that, activity is no longer available to view, and you can't turn on Activity Monitoring for new quizzes unless you're on Pro.
Turn on Activity Monitoring
Go to the Launch tab.
Select Quiz, then choose the quiz you want to launch.
Choose your Delivery Method and quiz 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 quiz starts.
View activity during a quiz
Open the Live Results tab for the quiz.
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 quiz (for example, to another tab, window, or app)
Window resizing
Pasting text that was copied from outside the quiz. Copying and pasting quiz content 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 a quiz
Activity stays available after the session ends.
Open the quiz results and select the Activity tab.
Select a student to see their activity timeline.
Activity is visible only to the teacher who ran the quiz. Activity data stays in Socrative 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 quiz
Show supported events, such as a student leaving the quiz
Fullscreen: Student entered or exited Fullscreen mode.
Paste: Text was pasted into an answer field from outside of the quiz, 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 quiz. 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. Socrative 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.