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Aug 26, 2020 Respondus LockDown Browser is a secure browser tool that prevents students from accessing external resources during proctored assessments administered in testing centers and computer labs. While taking assessments using LockDown Browser, students are unable to print, copy, go to other web pages, or access other applications. This video will show instructors how to set up an assessment to require the use of LockDown Browser and a webcam (Respondus Monitor), to prevent cheating in.
Respondus LockDown Browser is a secure browser tool that prevents students from accessing external resources during proctored assessments administered in testing centers and computer labs. While taking assessments using LockDown Browser, students are unable to print, copy, go to other web pages, or access other applications. Once students start their assessments, they are locked into them until they submit them for grading. LockDown Browser is available for use in Canvas.
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Respondus Monitor, the auto-proctoring component of Respondus LockDown Browser, is available without fee for the 2020-21 academic year to all IU courses, provided the instructor submits the Online Proctoring Acknowledgement. For details, see Assess student learning during COVID-19: Alternate assessment, Respondus Monitor, and Examity.
LockDown Browser displays assessments in full-screen windows; students cannot exit or minimize their assessment windows, switch tasks, or access other applications until they submit their assessments for grading. Additionally, LockDown Browser blocks or disables:
- Print, Print Screen, and capturing functions
- Copying and pasting content to and from assessments
- Messaging, screen-sharing, virtual machine, and network monitoring applications
- Right-click menu options and function keys
- Browser menus and toolbar options (except for Back, Forward, Refresh, and Stop)
Instructors need to edit the exam settings to allow Chromebooks and iPads to access Respondus LockDown Browser. The LockDown Browser extension for Chromebook is in a beta release phase, and may be less reliable than the versions for Windows or macOS. Witcher 3 portrait of hierarch. Android tablets cannot use Respondus LockDown Browser.
Instructors: Set up LockDown Browser for use with a quiz in Canvas
- Create a quiz in Canvas. For more about quizzes in Canvas, see the Quizzes documentation in the Canvas Instructor Guide. If your quiz includes many high-resolution images and you are delivering it in a lab environment (computer classroom or the IUPUI Testing Center), choose Show one question at a time when setting up your quiz in Canvas. LockDown Browser does not cache images, and may fail to display images if many students request the same quiz at the same time on the same network subnet.
- In the course navigation on the left, click LockDown Browser. (If you don't see LockDown Browser, it may be hidden; to display it, use the instructions in How do I manage Course Navigation links?)
- Next to the quiz title, click the menu icon ( ), and then select Modify Settings.
- Select Require Respondus LockDown Browser for this exam.
- If students will be using their own devices, under 'Advanced Settings', choose Allow students to take this exam with an iPad (using the 'LockDown Browser' app from the Apple App Store) and Allow students to use LockDown Browser for Chromebook (beta).
- Set other options, if desired.
- Click Save & Close.
Students: Use LockDown Browser for a quiz in Canvas
- If you are required to use LockDown Browser and Monitor to take your quiz, see Take a quiz using Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor.
- If you are using a Chromebook, see Take a quiz using Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor. Photo, ID, working environment, and facial detection requirements will not apply if you are not using Respondus Monitor; all other instructions will be the same.
- Download and install LockDown Browser from the Respondus Download LockDown Browser page.
- When installation is complete, launch LockDown Browser. It should redirect automatically to the IU Canvas home page.
- If prompted, log in with your IU username and passphrase. Navigate to the appropriate quiz, and then click Take the Quiz.
- When you are finished and ready to submit the quiz for grading, click Submit Quiz.
Get help
For more about LockDown Browser, see Respondus Instructor Resources.
At IU, if you need help setting up or using LockDown Browser, contact your campus Support Center.
LockDown Browser is a locked browser for taking quizzes in Canvas. It prevents you from printing, copying, going to another URL, or accessing other applications during an assessment. If a Canvas quiz requires that LockDown Browser be used, you will not be able to take the quiz with a standard web browser.
LockDown Browser should only be used for taking Canvas Quizzes. It should not be used in other areas of Canvas.
Installing LockDown Browser
If LockDown Browser has already been installed, skip to the next section. If not, LockDown Browser must be installed on each computer (Windows or Mac) being used to take a test. You must have administrative rights to install applications in order to install Lockdown Browser.
- Navigate to the quiz that will be using the Lockdown Browser.
- Click on the quiz. You should see a hyperlink that says “Download Respondus Lockdown Browser.” Clicking this will bring you to the download page.
- Click the Install Now button to download a zip file (.zip).
- Open the downloads folder and run the file titled “Install Respondus Lockdown Browser.”
- Accept the terms, set the location where you want Respondus to be installed in your computer, and then complete the installation process.
Note: If you have an older version of the browser already installed you may need to uninstall it and install the latest version using the instructions above.
Taking a Quiz/Exam
- Close all programs currently running.
- Locate the “LockDown Browser” shortcut on the desktop and double-click it. (For Mac users, launch “LockDown Browser” from the Applications folder.)
- If prompted to close a blocked program (e.g. screen capture, instant messaging), choose Yes when prompted.
- In the Choose Server dialog box select Rutgers Canvas and click OK. This will take you to the Canvas login page where you can login and access your course.
- Navigate to the quiz and select the Take a Quiz link.
- Once a quiz has been started with LockDown Browser, you cannot exit until the Submit Answers button is clicked.
- After completing your quiz and clicking Submit Answers, close LockDown Browser and log back into you course using your preferred browser before doing any additional work in the course.
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Problems?
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If you have problems downloading, installing, or taking a test with Respondus LockDown Browser, you may email the Canvas Help Desk or call 877-361-1134 available 24/7.