Test & Quiz Tool Usability Without Internet – Performance Issues & Alternatives?

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Guru Priya Rajesh

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May 8, 2025, 11:57:23 AMMay 8
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We are planning to conduct exams using the Tests & Quizzes tool in Sakai, but are concerned about the risk of malpractice if students have internet access. To mitigate this, we are considering disabling internet access for students during exams.

However, we noticed that Sakai attempts to load resources from external URLs, such as:

We would like to know:

  • Are there any additional external URLs Sakai requires to function properly?

  • Can Sakai be configured to run fully offline or in a restricted network environment during exams?

Any guidance or official documentation on minimizing external dependencies would be very helpful.

Sam Ottenhoff

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May 8, 2025, 12:03:09 PMMay 8
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Sakai should run fine in a restricted network environment. Replacing the font and use of cdnjs should be very easy.

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Sauber, Thomas J CTR JS J7 (USA)

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May 8, 2025, 12:31:58 PMMay 8
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CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

We have several courses that use a Respondus lockdown browser.  It is part of our setup when creating the test.  This prevents accessing any other internet tabs, sites, etc  The caveat is that all material needs to located locally in the resources file.  Nothing can be pulled in as you currently have it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Guru Priya Rajesh

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May 9, 2025, 2:45:38 AMMay 9
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Thank you for your prompt reply.
We would like to know is there any other external urls other than

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.co https://ajax.googleapis.comhttps://fonts.googleapis.com

These three URLs have already been allowed through our network. 
Do you have the list of external links used in sakai to be whitelisted. If so, please provide us the list.
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Daniel Merino

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Nov 12, 2025, 3:13:42 AMNov 12
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Hi Guru Priya Rajesh,

we are also interested in running Sakai in a classroom without internet access.

Did you manage to get a working whitelist? Or some procedure to store locally the resources that Sakai needs to load?

Thanks in advance.

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