Florian Barral

Co-founder & CEO @Evalmee

Co-founder and CEO of Evalmee, a CentraleSupélec graduate, and a lecturer at ESSEC since 2022. He writes about online assessment, GDPR compliance for remote exams, and the use of AI in grading.

Background

Florian Barral co-founded Evalmee in 2020 with Dorian Becker, after a first entrepreneurial venture in education. He is its CEO.

He graduated from CentraleSupélec (2014-2018) and holds an MSc in Data Science & Business Analytics from ESSEC Business School. Before Evalmee, he was a data scientist at Artefact and then at Capgemini Invent, and a business analyst at Amazon.

Teaching

A teacher before he was a vendor: that is where Evalmee comes from. Florian has been a lecturer at ESSEC Business School since January 2022, where he has built and taught the Business Statistics and Business Data Science courses. Before that he taught web project management at EFAP, in Paris, in 2017. He still uses Evalmee with his own students.

What he writes about

Assessment as a teaching tool rather than a formality; GDPR compliance for remote exams and what the CNIL expects of a remote proctoring setup; the place — and the limits — of AI in grading.

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How does a CentraleSupélec lecturer run an MCQ for 816 students in every tutorial session?

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How does a CentraleSupélec lecturer run an MCQ for 816 students in every tutorial session?

Gianluca Quercini, a lecturer and researcher at CentraleSupélec, decided to end every tutorial session of his course with an MCQ — for a year group of 816 students split across 32 groups. He told the story on 16 July 2026 in an ANSTIA webinar, alongside Aurélie Thomann. This case study reports what was said, with timestamps, and publishes the edited transcript of the session.

How to prevent cheating in online exams: what actually works

Twelve measures against cheating in online exams, ranked from the least to the most costly for the honest candidate: what each one prevents, what it does not, and where the GDPR draws the line. No measure makes cheating impossible; a few, combined and chosen by the stakes of the exam, make it costly, uncertain and traceable.

How to run a secure exam in Moodle (and where Moodle stops)

A step-by-step guide to a Moodle Quiz that resists copying: question bank by category, random questions, time limit, one attempt, sequential navigation, review options, password and network address. What Safe Exam Browser locks and what it cannot see. And what Moodle does not do: proctoring, copy-paste detection, identity checks, AI-assisted grading.

CNIL-compliant proctoring: what délibération 2023-058 actually says

France’s data protection authority does not ban remote proctoring. It asks institutions to match the level of monitoring to the stakes of the exam, to offer an in-person alternative, and to drop automated analysis of candidate behaviour. A guided reading of délibération n° 2023-058 of 8 June 2023, article by article, with paragraph numbers so every claim can be checked.

August 15, 2026

13 min