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Community toggle Community menu. You will need to install Respondus LockDown Browser for each institution on your computer. You may be required to use LockDown Browser with a webcam, which will record you during an online, non-proctored exam. The webcam feature is sometimes referred to as "Respondus Monitor. A broadband connection is also required. You will be prompted to make the purchase the first time an exam requires the use of LockDown Browser's webcam feature.
Payment can be made with PayPal, Visa or Mastercard. Those that wish to check-out a webcam, must stop by the office to reserve the use of a webcam. Webcams must be returned once completed with testing. Supply is limited and is provided on a first-come-first-served basis. Respondus Monitor subscriptions do not overlap and are purchased per institution.
A subscription will need to be purchased at each institution. The following section focuses on some frequently asked questions and troubleshooting tips over the Respondus LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor. After you log into Blackboard inside the Respondus LockDown Browser, you can click the information bubble, located at the top of the browser.
This will take you to the "Help Center", where you can run a "Webcam Check" and a comprehensive "System Check" on your computer and browser. Read more about the Help Center here. This normally appears when users try to access the test through a standard browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, etc. If your test states that it "Requires Respondus LockDown Browser," be sure you have installed the browser from the appropriate link above, and open the Respondus LockDown Browser to access your test.
Respondus LockDown Browser may give you the option to "Quit LockDown Browser," so you can close open applications manually, or the option to "Kill these applications," so that the software can do it for you. If you have problems taking a test in LDB, here is a short troubleshooting guide to help you resolve them. You can also use the Help Center button Windows and Mac located on the toolbar.
Help Center lets you quickly run a system and network check on their computer, giving immediate information about what might be wrong. By leaving this setting disabled, students that encounter computer errors can resolve their issue by completely closing their browser, logging into eLearning and resuming where they left off in the test, with any time that is still left.
NOTE: Timers on a test never pause while a student has left the test. Students must be quick to get back into the test with any time remaining.
Tests with no timers can create an opportunity for collusion or to perform prohibited research on the test. It is recommended to add a timer that provides students enough time per question to read the question text and answer choices, a few moments to analyze and determine the correct choice, select the choice, and submit. The more time that is provided on a test per question, the greater the opportunity for an answer to be researched from online sites or an eBook or shared with another person.
With the timer feature enabled, you may also have the system submit a student's attempt at the moment time expires on the timer by setting "Auto-Submit" to "ON". This limits students to the designated time on the test and prohibits them from exceeding the time limit. Setting "Auto-Submit" to "OFF" will provide the student with an option to exceed the timer, but have their attempt marked "Late" in the grade center.
To prevent direct collusion where questions number and answer choices would be shared "1 is A, 2 is C, 3 is B, In Blackboard, a pool is a collection of questions that can be linked and randomized in a test. By using pools and a test's feature of question sets or random blocks, a subset number of questions from a pool can be randomized between each student. Within the test, questions can be randomized as a whole or within sections of a test. No test is the same, but there will be some overlap in questions.
As new semesters arrive, instructors can add additional questions to previously built pools so that the variety of questions grows and remains current with the material presented to students in a semester. There may be many unforeseen scenarios of why a few students are unable to complete a test with the majority of the class. To protect the integrity of the answer key on a test, instructors may disable all test question feedback on a test until all submissions are collected by the system.
This can be completed by the following two methods:. For students using iPads, there is a setting on the Respondus LockDown Browser tool that allows you to enable the use of the LockDown Browser app for these users.
As per Respondus' documentation for faculty , you may enable the iPad use with the following steps:. TAMIU is currently looking into a possibility of enabling Respondus LockDown Browser for Chromebook users, but we do not have a definitive time when this will be applied or if it will be allowed by the company.
Before considering these final options, ask the student to search for another device to take their test or see if they can visit the TAMIU computer labs to access the Respondus LockDown Browser.
Instructional Technology and Distance Education Services also check-out webcams for online tests and can be requested at elearning tamiu.
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