During midterms and/or finals, we often see many students that are preparing to submit either online exams or recorded presentations. Online exams utilizing the LockDown Browser feature may benefit from a test run to see if the computer hardware is compatible and to assist the students with getting acclimated to the proctoring tool.

If the student is submitting a presentation, they may benefit from a similar test run. This can be done in a couple of different ways. To learn more, please follow the steps below:

 

1. Create your practice exam (we recommend providing the practice quiz with a descriptive title as shown below):

 

2. Open the practice quiz and select Edit quiz:

 

3. Add a sample question (probably best to use a fake one or one irrelevant to the assessment content):

 

4. In this example, I just added a random question rather than making a new one:

 

5. Create your real exam:

 

6. Turn Editing On from your course homepage:

 

7. Navigate to the bottom left-hand corner of the left-hand navigation drawer, select Add a Block:

 

8. From that list, select Respondus LockDown Browser:

 

9. Navigate to the LockDown Browser block and select Dashboard:

 

10. Enable LockDown Browser for both the practice and real exams:

 

11. Select Save + Close when finished

12. You will then see that LockDown Browser is enabled:

13. For more information about using LockDown Browser, refer to the Faculty & Staff Training Resources.

 

14. Your students will then have the opportunity to test their equipment for LockDown Browser before taking an exam

 

15. If you would like to take it a step further, use Restrict Access + Activity Completion to require the practice quiz to be completed first.

 

16. Go to your Activity Completion for your practice assessment and configure these settings:

 

17. Once those changes are saved, navigate to your real exam and set the restrict access settings based on activity completion:

 

18. Your practice and real exams will then appear like so:

 

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