Final Exam Integrity

[stephanie_pope]

Hello Fellow K-12 Family!

I'm wondering what other schools do to ensure final exam integrity. We think we have our ducks in a row, but our students still seem to find ways to take screenshots, look at older courses, and find new ways to share exam data. This would be focused more on Canvas, rather than using a proctoring service- that only helps while the student is taking a final. What are some of the settings, best practices, and ideas you've found helpful to arm against these sneaky students?

Thanks for your help!

Stephanie

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @stephanie_pope ​, on the following document I go through a lot of best practices for quiz security - Quiz Settings to Maximize Security. In addition, I'd make sure on the admin setting side that you've got the box checked to "Restrict students from viewing quiz questions after course end date." In all honesty this shouldn't matter as much if you are securing your quizzes from the get-go, but it doesn't hurt! For taking screen shots about the best advice I've got is having the quiz be proctored/monitored in a computer lab or classroom.

Hope this helps!

Kona

[clong]

I'd second Kona's recommendations and if the students are taking the exam in a typical classroom (on laptops/Chromebooks) I'd recommend all the student's desks be arranged so that the teacher can see all the screens from one vantage point.

[stephanie_pope]

Thank so much for the replies and ideas. We use the admin setting to "restrict all students from viewing tests/quizzes after course end date" as well. Thank you  @kona ​ for the link to your quiz security page. Great stuff! We have a small window when students can see their responses and/or corrected answers. We are possibility rethinking our final exam settings to uncheck the "show correct answers" on final exams only. Just things we are considering.

Thanks for your help!

Stephanie

[cwendt]

Hello,  @stephanie_pope ​. Has your school looked into using Respondus Lockdown Browser? We love it. While using it, the students are not able to do any right-click functions whatsoever, nor take screenshots—and you can make it so that they are unable to take the test without it.

[stephanie_pope]

Hey  @cwendt ​!

We use a live proctoring service for all final exams- so the students are monitored and can't take any screenshots. It's the brief time while they are reviewing the correct/corrected answers, which normally isn't monitored. Thanks for your input!

Stephanie