No. Google Forms records only the answers and a submission timestamp. It cannot detect tab switches, copied text, screenshots or a second device. Third-party proctoring add-ons can detect some of those, but nothing running in a browser can see a phone, paper notes or another person in the room.
Last reviewed 1 September 2026
On its own, no. Google Forms records the answers and a submission timestamp. It has no cheating detection of any kind: it cannot tell whether a respondent switched tabs, pasted an answer, opened another device, or had someone else in the room. There is no setting to turn on, because the capability does not exist.
That is the whole list. It does not expose IP addresses to you, and it does not record how long anyone spent on a question.
Third-party proctoring tools can see more, because they wrap the form in their own page. Between them they offer tab-switch detection, fullscreen enforcement, copy-and-paste restriction, and — in some cases — camera snapshots and audio monitoring.
This matters more than the feature lists suggest. A web page can only observe itself. No add-on, however priced, can see:
Nor can any of it stop a determined student. The checks run as JavaScript on the respondent's own machine, so anyone willing to open developer tools can switch them off.
The honest framing is signals a human should weigh, not proof. A student who left the tab four times may have been using a permitted calculator. Treat a report as a prompt to ask a question, never as a verdict on its own.
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