[Using Sakai] Locking down browser for Tests & Quizzes

[Dave Ross]

Without manipulating the client workstation, you are limited to:

a) proctored exams

b) exam duration & questions designed to discourage "looking up the answer"
(as doing so takes then examinees too much time)

If you *do* touch the client, you can do anything. However, you deal with
the mess that web-based software avoids (cross-platform issues, etc etc).
The most common approach that I've seen is active-x based controls which
deliver the exam in a locked-down/kiosk mode (but they only work through IE
on the windows platform).

-Dave

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Hill,Nancy <nkhill at mdanderson.org> wrote:

>
> Hi – I’m with M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and we are
> implementing Sakai for our academic students and external learners.   The
> instructors at our School of Health Professions would like to be able to
> lock down the browser when a student begins an assessment, to prevent them
> from navigating to other websites or accessing other resources.  I have not
> had much luck identifying products or options to provide this.
>
> How are other academic institutions that use Sakai approaching the lockdown
> issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nancy Hill
> Sr Educational Specialist
> The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
> 1515 Holcombe
> Houston, TX 77030
> *www.mdanderson.org* <http://www.mdanderson.org>
>
>
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