Once you have enabled Honorlock on a quiz, you will be able to select the appropriate Honorlock settings for the quiz. There are several sections that you will need to consider as you set up the quiz.
Critical session recipients
You will need to enter the email(s) of the person or people in the course who you’d like to receive notifications about flags or other issues. Note that you cannot search for emails of anyone else but your own on the first Honorlock-enabled quiz. Everyone needing to be informed will need to manually go in and add themselves as the Critical Session Recipient for the first quiz. On subsequent quizzes, anyone who has been added to a quiz will appear in the dropdown menu as an option for others to add. You may have multiple recipients listed.
Just because you receive an email about an issue, does not mean that academic misconduct has occurred. Likewise, just because you did not get an email doesn’t mean that all exam guidelines were followed. You are responsible for reviewing the proctoring results and making determinations of academic misconduct. These notifications may be helpful during that process.
Proctoring settings
You must select anything you want the exam to block or prevent by enabling that setting. To enable the setting, simply click on the box. The blue checkbox indicates that the option has been enabled and will take effect during the exam. Clicking on it again will disable it.
Below are descriptions of what each Proctoring Setting will do when enabled:
- Record Webcam: requires a webcam to record the student’s face and environment.
- Record Screen: records the student’s laptop or desktop screen.
- Record Web Traffic: monitors and logs the student’s browser activity within the same browser session they are using for the quiz.
Enabling this does not record browser activity on a second browser or another profile of the same browser. This feature is best used in conjunction with the BrowserGuard setting, which prevents users from accessing additional platforms outside the browser being used to take the quiz.
- Student Photo: requires students to take a picture of themselves through the webcam before they can begin the quiz.
In the case of technical issues with taking a photo, the student would chat with Honorlock support who can assist them with the issue, or in some cases, bypass this step altogether. A notification will be included in the proctored results if the student contacts support or if this step is bypassed.
- Student ID: requires students to show an ID before accessing the quiz.
The name on the ID must match exactly how it appears in CarmenCanvas for the system to automatically accept the ID. If it doesn’t match, it will not accept that form of ID. In the case of technical issues with the student ID, the student would chat with Honorlock support who can assist them with the issue, or in some cases, bypass this step altogether. A notification will be included in the proctored results if the student contacts support or if this step is bypassed.
Although the system will accept government issued IDs (driver’s license, passport, etc.), it is strongly encouraged that students use the Ohio State issued BuckID for this requirement.
- Room Scan: requires students to show a 360-degree view of their testing environment. You can use the Additional Instructions section on the Proctoring setup page to provide additional details of what you would like students to scan (e.g.; scratch paper, turning off cell phones and putting them out of reach, etc.)
- Calculators: allows built-in calculators to be available during the exam sessions. You can choose between a basic or scientific calculator
- Disable Copy/Paste: prevents students from copying content from the quiz and pasting it outside of the quiz.
To prevent users from copying from outside the quiz into the quiz, you will need to ensure that the BrowserGuard is enabled which prevents the user from accessing applications outside of the browser being used for the test.
- Disable Printing: prevents the user from accessing Chrome’s print function to print or export quiz content.
Note: The computer's screenshot or screen grab functions may not be prevented even if this or BrowserGuard are enabled because they are functions controlled outside of the browser. You will need to review all student results and recordings to ensure these functions have not been used.
- BrowserGuard: prevents students from accessing applications outside of the browser they are using to take the test. It prevents other browsers or profiles from being opened. It also prevents Chrome’s screen size from being resized to less than 90%. This setting should be enabled on all quizzes where students are not allowed to access outside material.
- Allowed Site URLs: allows access to other websites that open up in additional Chrome tab during a quiz. If enabled, you will need to add the allowed websites to the Configuration: Allowed URL’s setting. The links should also be added somewhere in the quiz instructions or questions to allow students the ability to click on the link and access the content.
If you are allowing access to an eBook, you will need to add the publisher’s URL to the list of allowed URLs even if the book is part of CarmenBooks and accessed through the Carmen course. This function should be used in conjunction with BrowserGuard to ensure that students cannot open other browsers or profiles.
- Simulated: When this option is enabled, this means that the quiz is not actually recording or flagging student behavior. However, students will experience the quiz as if it were being proctored
Student guidelines
In the Student Guidelines section, the default is to not allow the specified behavior. Meaning you must enable the settings you want to allow during the specific quiz. Leaving all of them as default disabled would result in the strictest proctoring settings. Clicking on the boxes (causing a blue checkmark to appear) will enable students to engage in that behavior during a quiz and not be flagged. The settings you allow will be made visible to the student prior to starting the quiz.
- Open Book Allowed: allows users to utilize physical books or eBooks. If BrowserGuard is enabled, you will need to allow the specific URLs where students could access eBooks or eNotes.
- Notes Allowed: allows students to reference physical notes on paper or on another device. You may want to include in the Additional Instructions sections with more details regarding what sources are allowed, if there are restrictions. Keep in mind Honorlock doesn’t monitor or restrict what sources are used so you will need to review the quiz results to ensure procedures were followed.
- Scratch Paper Allowed: allows students to use scratch paper and a writing utensil. If you want students to show their scratch paper during a room scan you will want to add those instructions in the Additional instructions portion of the proctoring setup. Honorlock will not prevent a student from taking a quiz or flag them if they don’t show the scratch paper in the scan. You will need to review the recordings to ensure students followed your instructions.
- Restroom Break Allowed: allows users to leave the exam environment for a short period of time. You will need to add details (i.e.; frequency, duration, etc.) in the Additional instructions portion of the proctoring setup. Keep in mind that Honorlock does not keep track of how much time someone is gone, so you will need to watch recordings to ensure your guidelines were followed.
- Handheld Calculator allowed: students can use a handheld calculator or their phone calculator. Keep in mind that Honorlock cannot easily distinguish between a calculator and a phone and doesn’t monitor what activity is performed on the device. You will need to review the results carefully to determine that guidelines were followed.
- Headphones allowed: students can use headphones during an quiz without getting flagged or notified to remove the headphones.
- Hats Allowed: hats or other headwear can be worn. It is recommended that his option always be enabled to account for religious headwear.
- Take exam in Public Area: allows students to take the quiz in areas where people are around them and noise is present. When enabled, Honorlock will not flag quizzes where multiple faces are present or visible on the webcam.
- Background Noise Allowed: allows students to take the quiz in environments where other people may be talking or there is excessive background noise. When enabled, Honorlock will not flag quizzes where talking occurs.
- Mobile Phone Use Allowed: students are allowed to use a mobile phone during a quiz as a resource.
Be aware that Honorlock may not always be able to flag when a phone is used even if this feature is disabled. You will need to review all student results to determine if quiz guidelines and expectations were met.
Additional instructions
The Addition Instructions section allows instructors to provide additional instructions to students before they start the quiz. These are visible to students. We recommend being explicit and as detailed as possible in this section with what you allow and do not allow during an quiz. This is where you would add additional details to clarify your expectations on the student guidelines above. For example, explicitly state the expectation that students scan their scratch paper or that they turn off their phone during the room scan.
Examples of what to include in the Additional Instructions section:
- Lighting in the room must be bright enough to show your face and the surrounding area in a clear and detailed manner.
- You should be seated at a desk or table. Laying down in bed or elsewhere when taking the quiz is not allowed.
- You should clear your desk or table of all other materials (e.g., books, papers, notebooks, calculators, etc.)
- You must show the work area as well as the entire room during the room scan.
- No visible writing on the desk or walls is permitted.
- All third-party programs and windows (websites, Excel, Word, etc.) on the testing computer must be closed before logging into the proctored test environment.
- Loud music, television, or other distractions playing in the background are prohibited.
- No other people or parties are permitted near the testing environment, and all communication between you and other people is prohibited.
- You must not leave the room during the testing period at any time or take the computer into another room.
- No breaks will be permitted.
- Use of hoodies, headsets, or earplugs is prohibited.
- Cell phone use is prohibited.
- Your face must remain within view of the camera at all times.
- Honorlock will not add additional time for proctoring questions or technical issues encountered during the quiz.
Accommodations
Information added to the Accommodations section will not be seen by students. This section is mainly designed for a live proctoring feature that Ohio State does not use. Information added here would only be useful for sharing information with other course instructors, TAs or graders.
Be sure to click Enable to save the proctoring settings. When you go back to the List of quizzes, your newly Honorlock-enabled quiz will have moved to the bottom of your list. You can go into Settings at any time to adjust these options. We strongly recommend not changing settings after students have begun taking the quiz. However, settings changed when a quiz is live will take effect on any attempt started after the quiz settings are changed and will not impact quizzes in progress.
For more information refer to the Using Honorlock with Canvas resource guide.
Using Exam Setting Profiles
You can also use Honorlock Exam Profiles to save your quiz settings to ensure consistent settings across quizzes within a course. Profiles can be set up and managed outside of a quiz or you can create a new profile while setting up a quiz. See the exam profiles guide for more information on how to use this feature.