Removing Respondus Lockdown Browser from Canvas Quizzes after Uninstalling

[mrenk]

Our institution recently switched to a new proctoring tool from Respondus Lockdown Browser and implementation went smoothly. Since we have ended our Respondus contract, we removed the LTI from our Canvas instance. However, we found that many instructors have quizzes with Lockdown Browser still enabled and we are unable to remove LB from each quiz. We have tried exporting the quizzes as well as packages, but the quizzes do not appear in the quiz export menu (see example in attached images). Has anyone else experienced these difficulties in switching proctoring tools from Respondus, and if so, have you had success in finding a way to remove the tool from Canvas quizzes to avoid rebuilding? Thank you for any information you can provide.

[Gabriel33]

When you say you are "unable to remove LB from each quiz", do you mean because it won't let you, or because there are a lot of quizzes to go over manually?

If it's because there are too many quizzes, you may want to consider the API. I don't have LockDown to test it, but in Assignments | Instructure Developer Documentation Portal it mentions that the Assignment API object includes LockDown Browser information, so you may be able to set it to false.

[mrenk]

Basically, if I try to edit the quiz or adjust the settings in Build, there is no checkbox/switch to remove Lockdown Browser in each proctored quiz. I appreciate the resource - to my knowledge, LDB is no longer integrated in our Canvas instance, so I am not sure how much can be done on our end.

[Gabriel33]

The API should go around the UI and edit the property even if you don't have LDB installed. My institution doesn't have LDB and I can still see the "require_lockdown_browser" property (which is set to false). I managed to set it to True in an assignment, though I didn't see any difference.

Do you or someone at your institution have experience with the Canvas API? If you don't, but have Python, I can make a short canvasapi script to test changing one quiz to not requiring lockdown, and you can then see if it succeeds.

[dbrace]

@Gabriel33,

If you work with @mrenk to put something together, you might want to consider having the script also change the name so that there are no references to either of the following at the end:

• " - Requires Respondus LockDown Browser + Webcam" (what appears if the optional Respondus Monitor was added to the assessment)
• " - Requires Respondus LockDown Browser" (what appears if only Respondus LockDown Browser is set to be used)

NOTE 1: there is a <space> before and after the hyphen of what Respondus adds when enabling its functionality

NOTE 2: this might be self explanatory but the quotes are not needed, unless the script itself would require them

Without doing that, I believe, that text would still be in its name after removing the requirement.

-Doug

[mrenk]

Thank you all for the assistance - my colleague and I found this helpful resource from Montgomery CCC we have tested with successful results, if anyone is interested. Take care!

[dbrace]

Thank you for that resource, @mrenk. MCCC is geographically local to me.

It sounds like they basically want instructors to:

1. export the quizzes in the course
2. import the quizzes back into the course
3. re-create the quizzes (using the question banks)

-Doug