Do you use quizzes in Brightspace? Are you looking for a way to prevent students from browsing websites or using other applications during a Brightspace quiz? If so, we have a tool for your students. LockDown Browser is a special application that runs on a student’s computer that locks them into a Brightspace quiz. The student can’t browse other websites, other parts of Brightspace, or use other applications on their computer. They can’t print the exam or copy and paste the questions into email to send to other students.

How do you get this wonder for your course? It’s already in your course. We have added this tool in Brightspace and it is available to instructors in the quiz tool area. After you create your test/quiz using the regular Brightspace tools, you will deploy the test/quiz as usual. Up to this point there is no change. To use LockDown Browser, you navigate to the quiz tool area. There you will find a Tab for “LockDown Browser.”

Clicking on the LockDown Browser tab brings you to a list of your quizzes. You can select “Settings” from the dropdown menu to the left of the name of each quiz to set-up the Quiz to use Lockdown Browser.

Once in the LockDown Browser settings you can choose whether students will be required to use LockDown Browser to access the test.

Within the settings for LockDown Browser, you can select LockDown Browser as a requirement and allow access to some tools that might be needed for the exam – such as a calculator, under the Advanced Settings.
Click Save + Close when done and you have made LockDown Browser a requirement for your exam.

But Wait, there’s more… Before having students take their first test with LockDown Browser, you should plan on having students download, install and test the set-up using a practice test. TLC/TechSpot can come to class to troubleshoot any problems in advance of any real tests so that instructors and students can be confident the system will work.

When students take a quiz, they open Brightspace as they usually do, and then they will see a link to open LockDown Browser to take the quiz. If you have used LockDown Browser with Blackboard, this is a different process, students don’t need to open LockDown Browser and login to Brightspace to take a quiz. The integration will launch LockDown Browser from within Brightspace.

If you are interested in using LockDown Browser with your course, please contact TLC at teach@wit.edu and we’ll be happy to schedule a consultation.