. >> reporter: what's appropriate during the online exam is monitored here at proctor u. an alabama based company with an office in pleasanton. before cofounding proctor u., don casner helped found an online university after teaching economics at sjsu. he developed parameters for proctoring. >> it's really online or in the classroom, it's how you set the rules up and who monitors that in the classroom it's faculty men. online it's -- member. online it's technology and different tools we're going to use. >> reporter: what's the process of minimizing exam cheating online? >> it's really pretty simple. the first one is the student will use a web cam. a one of one experience where we've got the proctor in our center. they connect via web conference to the student and we can see them and they can take their laptops and show us everything around their area. we can make sure they don't have things out. they can really secure the environment. >> reporter: not only is the online testing environment secured, but the online proctor can see what's on the student's screen and can help with compu