Guardian

Name: Guardian
Rating: 1.075 (80 reviews)
Author: ProctorU

A solution for taking online proctored exams.

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Guardian by Meazure Learning is a Chrome extension designed to facilitate secure and fair online proctored exams. It monitors exam sessions to ensure exam integrity while respecting user privacy.

The extension requires permissions only for the duration of the exam, carefully restricting activities such as copy-paste, accessing prohibited websites, and screen sharing to prevent cheating. It communicates with learning management systems to optimize the testing experience. Guardian assures users that personal data is protected and never shared with third parties, promoting a trustworthy and smooth test-taking environment.

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Version:

0.28.0 Last updated: 2025-04-14

Creation date:

2025-04-14

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
storage
management
cookies
notifications
webRequest
webNavigation
geolocation
browsingData

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Host permissions:

https://*.proctoru-qa.com/*
*://*.proctoru.com/*
*://*.proctoru-qa.com/*
https://*/courses/*/quizzes/*/take*
https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/*

Size:

4.03M

Email:

pr*****@proctoru.com

URLs:

Full description:

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

19 hours ago

Ranking

# 2,269 ▼ 73

User reviews

Guardian Chrome extension has received overwhelmingly negative feedback. Multiple users report persistent technical problems, including crashes and incompatibilities, leading to prolonged exam times and lost progress. Customer support is criticized for being unhelpful or rude. Many users express extreme frustration and stress caused by these issues, and some warn against using the extension for exam purposes. Overall, Guardian is viewed as unreliable and detrimental to the exam-taking process.

Pros

Cons

Extension and software are highly unreliable with frequent technical issues and crashes.
Poor or unhelpful customer support and IT assistance.
Incompatibility with certain hardware and operating systems, including Chromebooks.
Processes like setting up and completing exams take excessive time, causing stress and frustration.
Users experience loss of progress due to disconnections and app failures.

Recent reviews

This has way too much access, very shady. Extremely disgusting to be forced to use it for school.

Seth Marschall, 2025-05-09

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had issues at least. I felt like I was going crazy. Just going around in circles trying to get this thing to work. Spent 4 hours trying to write an exam that was supposed to last 75 minutes, it kicked me out again with just 5 questions left to answer, and now the institution says they can't even find my results.

Jeremy Andrews, 2025-05-07

If I could I would give it a 0 star. The people as well this stupid add is absolute garbage. Always having problems and the proctors are horrible and quite stupid as well. Respondus is much better than this trash.

Nazifa Tazrian Munia, 2025-05-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Guardian requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Guardian may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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