Simulating The Digital Exam Experience

[aje...@timarugirls.school.nz]

I received the following request from a teacher...

"I want the Junior Exams for English to be sat digitally, in practice for future exams from 2024. I have set up the exam in Google Forms and there is a code to enter. Is there a way to block students from opening other tabs when sitting the exam? There will be monitoring by teachers anyway, but just wondering if there is a way to do this."

So I am looking for a way to simulate the digital exam experience for junior exams. Is there a simple way to restrict a student to single tab in Chrome and prevent them accessing any other programs or stored notes, bookmarks, etc?

Alan

[Alistair Baird]

We use classwise so could use that, or use some kind of internet filter, otherwise having an observer at the back watching the screens.

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Alistair Baird
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[Sam McNeill]

If the devices are Windows you could run Take a Test ( Set up Take a Test on a single PC | Microsoft Learn) which basically launches kiosk mode for the target URL (your google form),

once the student exits Kiosk mode, the test is over (if you set the Google form to require to be signed in and to only allow students to submit once, then this should stop them from going to the test looking at questions, copying to a doc, answering the questions in a doc with other resources, then going back into the test and completing it (but they would not be able to copy/paste from the doc to the take a test environment so perhaps they don't even gain that much advantage).

[Blake Richardson]

We use exam.net for this purpose. 

[Dan Marsden]

You could also try safe exam browser 

https://safeexambrowser.org/about_overview_en.html

We have quite a few higher ed orgs using that for their online exams and it works well for them. (It's also open source so no licensing costs.)

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[Alan Jenks]

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

A Windows only solution isn't an option because of BYOD. Same goes for the  Google classroom lock feature which is for managed Chromebooks only.

We have Linewize, so that might work, however it relies on an extension being installed on the client computer. We've had mixed results testing Classwise in the past.

Exam.net being cloud based and platform agnostic, looks ideal but there isn't any mention of the licensing cost. Is it reasonable?

SEB is interesting but it isn't clear to me what would be need to be done to interface it with Google classroom.

Cheers!

Alan

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[Dan Marsden]

You just tell seb what url to open to start with and then control what the user can do from there eg what domains they cam navigate to, what browser controls they can have etc.

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