Prevent cheating by integrating with the Safe Exam Browser

[phillip_pinon]

A lockdown browser helps maintain testing integrity by preventing student access to unauthorized resources during a test (e.g. googling answers).

Canvas is currently compatible with the Respondus Lockdown Browser. Unfortunately, Respondus is a commercial product, for which you have to pay licensing fees.

I strongly suggest that Canvas integrate with the Safe Exam Browser, an open source lockdown browser that is free. Details at www.safeexambrowser.org.

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @phillip_pinon  

There is a process for requesting partner integrations that might help. Learn more at https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-14907-75187841186 

I just looked over this product, and it seems that it is intended for Testing Centers, but including it in Canvas could be powerful.

Kelley

[cpadavano]

Have them do this for Quizzes.Next since that is where they are going on the quiz system. QN doesn't even work with any proctoring tool my institution uses.

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/12515-quizzesnext-should-work-with-lockdown-browser-or-proctor...

[scarniol]

Safe Exam Browser does work with Canvas. Use the Javascript posted here: Locking down a quiz to require Safe Exam Browser to be used 

In the configuration file, on the Browser tab, enter the following under "User agent for desktop mode":  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0  

(This will prevent Canvas from popping up the message saying your browser isn't supported.)

Under the Network tab, you can block navigation to several areas of Canvas: 

I have not tried this with Quiz.next yet.

[ProductPanda]

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