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Tips and instructional resources for Lockdown Browser in Schoology

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Respondus has made their LockDown Browser product free through the end of the 2019-2020 school year. We currently do NOT have the “Monitoring” functionality in Lockdown Browser, so in a remote environment, nothing prevents the student from using two devices, minimizing the effectiveness of the Lockdown Browser.

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  1. Below is the most common error students see when testing with the Lockdown Browser. This error is typically caused by the teacher not enabling the Lockdown Browser for the quiz in each linked section or the teacher reused reusing an existing assessment that had already been taken by some students in a given sectionprior to setting the Lockdown Browser settings. To reuse an existing test/quiz, make a new test/quiz by copying it into Resources, and copying it back to your course, and then setting the Lockdown Browser settings.

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Linked Sections:

If your course utilizes linked sections, you will need to enable your assessment for each section, using the section drop down menu in the top-left of the LockDown Browser settings page.

  1. Reusing existing assessments:
    You cannot enable LockDown Browser for an existing assessment that has already been taken by some students in a given section.

Select the setting “Allow students to take this exam with an iPad.”

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The Lockdown Browser settings MUST be set for the test/quiz in EACH of your sections individually, even if your sections are linked in Schoology.

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Additional Resources

Lockdown Browser: https://web.respondus.com/k12/lockdownbrowser/resources/

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