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Purge Proctoring Media
Purging permanently deletes a session's proctoring files — webcam photos and videos, screenshots, screen recordings — while the session, its answers and its result stay exactly as they were. The proctoring timeline remains, with each file shown as deleted.
Proctoring media is usually the largest and most sensitive part of an exam's data, and often the part you need for the shortest time: once results are final and any disputes are settled, the recordings have done their job. Purging removes exactly those files and nothing else.
What is deleted and what stays
| Permanently deleted | Kept |
|---|---|
| Webcam photos and videos captured during the session | The test session, its status and its result |
| Screenshots and screen recordings | Answers, including files the candidate uploaded as answers |
| The proctoring timeline — each capture's time, flags and AI findings — with the file shown as File deleted | |
| Candidate details, reports and certificates |
In Session Proctoring, Post Proctoring and the media viewers, a purged capture appears as a File deleted tile in its usual place, so the timeline and any verdicts stay readable. Because the footage is gone, AI Detections can no longer be run or re-run on a purged session.
Purging all sessions of a task
In the task's Data Operations tab, the Data deletion tab shows how many of the task's test sessions are Not purged and Purged. Purge all proctoring media purges every session that still has media; sessions purged earlier are skipped. Sessions completed after the purge are not purged automatically — run it again when you need to.
If the tab reports that some test sessions predate purge tracking, those older sessions need a one-time preparation on our side before their media can be purged — send the listed session IDs to TestInvite support.
Purging selected sessions
In the Test Sessions table, select up to 100 sessions and choose Purge proctoring media from the bulk actions menu. This is the way to handle an individual request — for example, a candidate asking for their recordings to be erased — without touching anyone else's media.
When to purge
- Retention policy — your policy says recordings are kept for a fixed period after the exam.
- Privacy requests — a candidate asks for their images and recordings to be removed, but the result must stay on record.
- Storage — recordings of long, video-proctored exams take far more space than everything else in a task combined.
Purge only after you are sure no one will need the footage again — appeals and complaints often arrive weeks after an exam, and a proctoring decision is much harder to defend once its evidence is gone. If the result itself must go too, use Delete Test Sessions, which removes the media along with everything else.