Overview
Moodle Quizzes can be run so that students complete the Quiz in a locked down browser called Safe Exam Browser (SEB). The Safe Exam Browser restricts what a student can do whilst completing the Quiz. Typically, the student will be unable to access any other application or web page on their computer apart from the Quiz itself.
Moodle's Safe Exam Browser is one of many approaches to supporting academic integrity, and should be considered in the context of assessment design for academic integrity.
Note. Moodle Quiz Safe Exam browser is not recommended for non-invigilated online exams, as a student could easily have multiple computer devices and thus locking down one will be ineffective.
If you are looking for guidance on running a invigilated exam without Moodle's Safe Exam Browser, see the Moodle invigilated online exam guidance.
If you are running a summative test or exam in Moodle, as well as referring to the Module Assessment guidance in the Academic Manual, you also need to use this guidance and checklist to ensure you have set up the Quiz or Assignment properly and have considered what to do in case anything goes wrong with the technology.
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At least four weeks before the exam is scheduled to take place, it is vital you complete the Exam Notification Form so that the Digital Education team and ISD can complete any necessary checks on your Moodle quiz settings and/or room. If this is the first time you are running an online exam please state this in the Exam Notification Form in "Additional Info" and a member of our team MAY be able to assist you on the day (given enough notice). Please note: These Please be reminded that Exam Guard is in effect for quizzes open for less than 5 hours, so course editing will be disabled from 10 minutes before the quiz starts until 10 minutes after it ends. To avoid any disruptions, we recommend setting the "Open the quiz" time to match the exam start time when creating the quiz, as well as leaving the quiz availability setting on "Show on course page" rather than "Hide on course page". At least four weeks before the exam is scheduled to take place, it is vital you complete the Exam Notification Form so that the Digital Education team and ISD can complete any necessary checks on your Moodle quiz settings and/or room. If this is the first time you are running an online exam please state this in the Exam Notification Form in "Additional Info" and a member of our team MAY be able to assist you on the day (given enough notice). Please note: These members of staff are not a replacement for invigilators. DO NOT schedule your exam during a planned Moodle outage or maintenance window - see Maintenance updates. Currently, the window for Moodle maintenance is 1am – 4am GMT / 2am – 5am BST weekday is weekdays midnight-8am, currently the primary slot used is 6am-8am Thursday mornings. Exact maintenance days will be communicated on the News ticker of the Moodle homepage and ISD news. You can also check the Moodle news ticker on the Moodle home page for any planned outages. AVOID scheduling your exam within the UCL transition window of 5mins to or 5mins past the hour. Where possible, we recommend to adjust the start time of timed quizzes to 10 or 15 minutes past the hour (e.g. 11:10am, 12:15pm etc.) especially where the quiz is being taken by a large number of students. .) especially where the quiz is being taken by a large number of students. AVOID editing the settings of the Moodle course or its activities while students are actively undertaking a quiz on the same Moodle course. Editing course content while a quiz is underway (specifically instances where there are a large number of participants) may impact the performance of your Moodle course and its activities. AVOID editing the settings of the Moodle course or its activities while students are actively undertaking a quiz on the same Moodle course. Editing course content while a quiz is underway (specifically instances where there are a large number of participants) may impact the performance of your Moodle course and its activities.Moodle Quiz - Activity Completion - please note if you have enabled Activity completion, then the 'Require view' field MUST be unselected. Otherwise, this can slow down student access during their attempt. Please refer to the Recommended Moodle Quiz Settings checklist.and its activities. Moodle Quiz Safe Exam browser is not recommended for non-invigilated online exams, as a student could easily have multiple computer devices and thus locking down one will be ineffective. Moodle Quiz Safe Exam browser is not recommended for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) exams. The browser requires installation and is not guaranteed to work on different student devices. For example, it does not currently work on Chromebook. Instead, it should only be used in cluster rooms where it is pre-installed. |
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In the case of in-person delivery, it is the responsibility of departments to ensure that every student has access to a suitable device pre-tested with the lockdown browser application, as well as reliable Wi-Fi connection and power supply. Additionally, departments will need secure a suitable venue for conducting the assessment, such as securing UCL PC cluster rooms on campus.
SEB is currently installed in all PC cluster rooms . (except Birkbeck rooms for which it is not currently supported).
It can be installed on Windows, macOS, and IOS devices. It does not work on Chromebooks.
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Activity completion setting 'Require view': Student must view this activity to complete it. Ensure this is not selected. Anchor RequireView RequireView
Safe Exam Browser recommended settings
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- Require the use of Safe Exam Browser: Yes - Configure manually
- Show Safe Exam Browser download button: Yes
- Ask user to confirm quitting: Yes
- Enable quitting of SEB: Yes
- Quit Password: Generally recommended to prevent student exiting the Safe Exam Browser during the assessment. Required if exam is being completed on an iPad.
- Enable URL filtering: Yes
- Expressions allowed: Add any URLs you want students to be able to access. You can use * as a wildcard to allow multiple pages from the same domain. For example, adding https://bnf.nice.org.uk/ will allow the BNF homepage, whereas https://bnf.nice.org.uk/* will allow a student to access any BNF page.
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- Require the use of Safe Exam Browser: Yes - Use an existing template. This is a preconfigured set of options.
- Safe Exam Browser config template: Select the template you wish to use.
- Show Safe Exam Browser download button: Yes
- Enable quitting of SEB: Yes
- Quit Password: Generally recommended to prevent student exiting the Safe Exam Browser during the assessment. Required if exam is being completed on an iPad.
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