Is your class gearing up for Midterms already? Maybe there’s an exam coming up in your course that you need to proctor remotely. Respondus’s Lockdown Browser is a tool that facilitates this process and provides plenty of customization options for a hands-off approach to remote proctoring.
By enabling Lockdown Browser for your online exams, students take the exam in a controlled environment where they are locked in to Canvas, prevented from running videoconference/chat programs (e.g., Zoom, Webex), and have limited access to regular computer functions like copying & pasting. Furthermore, as instructor you’re given the option to enable Respondus Monitor, which is the webcam-recording part of this software. With Respondus Monitor enabled, your students are required to take a picture of their faces and their FAU IDs, record a quick video of their surroundings, and then take their exam while being recorded. This process can take at least 2-5 minutes, so make sure to take this into account when setting the Availability/Due date/time of your exam.
As students finish their exams, videos of each of their attempts are saved in the Lockdown Browser Dashboard in your Canvas course. Along with these videos, the dashboard also provides information regarding the time & length of each attempt, review priority, and any flags that were raised while the student took their exam. Using the webcam, Lockdown Browser creates flags and notifies students when it cannot see their face, preventing them from looking away from the screen, covering their faces, or switching places with someone else.
Our team understands that enabling this feature is a big step for instructors who have not dealt with online proctoring before. For this reason, we put together a couple of step-by-step documents to guide you and your students through this software:
- For Instructors: Lockdown Browser Setup Guide
- For Students: Lockdown Browser Student Guide
Respondus also hosts regular webinars and online training for Lockdown Browser. Links to three upcoming sessions are below:
We also host online training sessions for Canvas and its integrations regularly via our TechEvents Calendar. Register for an upcoming webinar or book a personal appointment to meet one-on-one by using our team’s scheduler.