[samigo-team] any interest in kiosks and secure browsers?

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hi Luke,
I think that would be an excellent topic for the next Samigo meeting, perhaps 10 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion? However, I think 8/7 will be a review of  and if there is time, a review of work Jackie has done to allow instructors to download file uploads, unless she wants to concede that. So does 8/21 sound good? You might even have the full hour, or at least, we might spend the full hour talking about high-stakes testing.

Is this the only open source secure browser there is? Has it been tested with Sakai and Samigo? Does it have a name?

Others on list should comment, but we don't do a lot of high-stakes testing in Samigo here at Stanford. However, the requests have been growing. I don't think anyone uses Respondus lockdown browser because when it does occur, it is all in one room at the same time and there is a proctor (from our previous talks, I remember Weber State has multiple test centers and testing windows). I also think, at least the languages, are able to somehow whitelist certain sites, like our CLE instance, when users are in that room (they can insure that only those in the room are able to take it by adding an additional password on the specific test). Still, a lockdown browser might be more efficient and flexible.

If we do have this discussion, I might invite folks from the languages, business, med school over. bcc'ing them now and will invite them again if we decide 8/21 works out.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University


----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Fernandez" <luke.fernandez at gmail.com>
To: samigo-team at collab.sakaiproject.org, "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
Cc: "Ian Dolphin" <iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:59:59 AM
Subject: any interest in kiosks and secure browsers?

Keli et al,

During the bi-weekly meetings would any of you have any interest in a
short (five-ten-fifteen minute) presentation on a feature that allows
instructors to configure and modify the degree of "locked-downess" a
secure browser would have during secure testing?  Basically the
feature allows an instructor to enable a student to surf to designated
Web sites on additional browser tabs while taking a secure test.  It
works inside a custom made secure browser that we coded here at Weber.
(Here is a screenshot of how it's configured:
http://screencast.com/t/el63TdgT71  And here's a screenshot of how it
appears in the secure browser while the student is testing:
http://screencast.com/t/V5x8cMrlXutU )

The project was funded by an NEH Digital Humanities grant (cf.
http://tinyurl.com/6umcrma )  and an endorsement by Sakai played a
role in securing the grant. Now that we're at the tail end of the
project I'm looking for places to present our findings, and get
feedback.  Since the NEH is encouraging us to share our work in open
source communities I thought I'd put a query out here. ( If it's not
something the Samigo team is interested in would you know of forums or
conferences that might be interested in this work? )

Cheers,

Luke
http://itintheuniversity.blogspot.com