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title: "How Do I Watch a Test Live?"
canonical: https://examlive.net/guides/live-monitoring-overview
---


## What live monitoring is

Live monitoring streams an in-progress session to you as it happens. It's read-only: you observe, the automatic rules enforce, but there's no way to message or terminate anyone from here.

## Opening a live session

From your test's **Submissions** list, use the three-dot menu of someone whose status shows as still taking the test and choose **Monitor** (or **View Session**). The monitoring page opens for that person.

## What you see

- **A browser mockup** mirroring the question they're on right now, including the option they've selected, updating as they work.
- **Progress**: how far through the questions they are.
- **Time left** on their countdown.
- **Violations**: their running count against the test's limit.
- **Activity history**: a timestamped feed of events such as **Tab switched**, **Left window**, **Exited fullscreen**, and **Copied content**.

Everything arrives over a realtime connection; no refreshing needed.

## When the session ends

Once they submit, the mockup blurs and the view becomes a record of what happened rather than a live feed. Grading continues from [Submissions](/guides/grade-submissions).

## When to watch

Useful for high-stakes or tightly proctored tests where seeing behavior in the moment matters. For casual quizzes, the recorded activity log on each submission is usually enough.