[Using Sakai] Locking down browser for Tests & Quizzes

[Leotis buchanan]

One option you good try, if the computers are network is to limit the pages
that the client can browse to during the test, you can do this by using a
web filter software, I good opensource one is DansGuardian.This will allow
you to specify that the only site they can go to is the test site.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Dave Ross <dave.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Leotis Buchanan
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