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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.
Overview
Moodle 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.
Locked down browsers are one 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 a locked down browserMoodle'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 members of staff are not a replacement for invigilators. |
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DO NOT schedule your exam during a planned Moodle outage or maintenance window. Currently, the window for Moodle maintenance is 1am – 4am GMT / 2am – 5am BST weekday 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. |
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| title | Avoid Editing a Course while a quiz is under wayPlease 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 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. |
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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.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 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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What is the Safe Exam Browser?
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Lockdown browser assessments must be departmentally - managed. This means that departments are responsible for all aspects of administering the assessment, including the Moodle quiz setup, invigilation (online & in-person), marking, and student communication and support.
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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.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.
Student preparation and familiarisation
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While traditional in-person exams comprise of pen - and - paper formats, lockdown browser exams necessitate students to work within the confines of a browser. Therefore, departments should pay special attention to the content of your assignment or question paper to ensure the instructions are appropriate for this assessment method.
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With the heightened security measures involved in a lockdown browser assessment, unique issues may arise that would not otherwise in pen -and paper or non-lockdown browser assessments.
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Your assessment records and information should accurately reflect the delivery of an in-person digital exam (such as a lockdown browser exam). Departments must ensure that the relevant parties have been consulted (i.e. Student Lifecycle team) and changes have been requested and approved (please refer to UCL's assessment review guidance and module amendment regulations).
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- Brief students - your students should be informed at the earliest opportunity that they are due to take a lockdown browser assessment and what is expected of them (departments are responsible for providing guidance and communications to their students)
- Secure appropriate devices and venue. Ensure the devices to be used have access to the latest version of the lockdown browser application (installation guidance) and that the venue has enough space to accommodate students with sufficient spacing in between each workstation to minimise potential for cheating.
For example, book a PC cluster room:
It is recommended that you book a room with 10% more computers than you need, this will ensure that there will be spare computers in the room in case of a computer failure.
If you use a non-centrally bookable room please room, please familiarise yourself with the login requirements/facilities in the room BEFORE the assessment takes place.
- From the 2024/25 academic year, PC cluster rooms will have Safe Exam Browser installed.
If not using a PC cluster room, you will need to make arrangements for ensuring devices are available to students (i.e. bring your own device or department-provided) and an appropriate room is secured.
Decide what you will do if there are technical issues that prevent you from running the exam on Moodle - e.g. have paper copies ready to be printed, reschedule.
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- Get students to download and practice using the Safe Exam Browser: Familiarise your students with the Moodle Quiz Safe Exam Browser before they sit the assessment. Students should be given an opportunity to complete a demo assessment on the device they will be using on the day; it is recommended that departments schedule a practice session where students can complete a practice quiz with the Safe Exam Browser. The student guidance on Safe Exam Browser explains how they can install Safe Exam Browser.
Identify and brief the invigilators who will attend the exam in each location.
It is essential that you have enough invigilators to ensure that candidates are not cheating. Invigilators will need to be familiar with the Moodle environment and with your test.
Notify Digital Education. Please make sure to complete the Exam Notification Form so that any necessary checks on your Moodle quiz settings and/or room can take place with at least four weeks notice before the exam is schedule to take place.
Digital Education will then ensure that no changes to the Moodle system are planned for, or near, the exam date.
ISD will be notified so they can ensure PCs are in working order (for centrally bookable spaces only).
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Remind students to ensure they are able to log into Moodle at least 2 working days before the exam. If they are unable to log in, please ask them to contact the ISD Service One Desk IT. If on the day a student cannot log in, please contact the Digital Education team, who will be able to set a temporary password for the length of the exam.
- Remind students they will need to use the Safe Exam Browser to complete the Quiz and so students will need to remember their password.
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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
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Safe Exam Browser recommended settings
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You must set a Quit password if students are completing the Quiz on an iPad. |
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Students who require specific accessibility tools such as a screen reader will need to sit their own version of the Quiz without the Safe Exam Browser to use their assistive technology or a custom configuration (option C below) will need to be configured and tested. |
Open the Safe Exam Browser option set.
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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: Required only 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: Required only : Generally recommended to prevent student exiting the Safe Exam Browser during the assessment. Required if exam is being completed on an IpadiPad.
To submit a template to be available across UCL, please contact digi-ed@ucl.ac.uk. IT Services
Option C: Upload my own config
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This option is for advanced users only. It requires you to download the Safe Exam Browser and run the included program called “SEB Configuration tool”.
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- You should provide students with a practice Safe Exam Browser exam before the day of the actual exam so that students can install and test Safe Exam Browser works on their own device.
- You must set a Quit password if students are completing the Quiz on an iPad. Otherwise, the iPad will not lock down the screen and students will be able to change applications.
- You can add PDFs to the Quiz by creating a link in the text of a question or in the text of a description. Ensure that links are set to open in a new window so that students aren’t taken away from the quiz page. You should open the PDF and then add the URL to the file to the the list of allowed URLS in the Safe Exam Browser settings. Always print out spares of any PDF document to have just in case.
- Students who require specific accessibility tools such as a screen reader will need to sit their own version of the Quiz without the Safe Exam Browser to use their assistive technology or a custom configuration (option c C above) will need to be configured and tested.
- Students may need to authenticate their account using MFA when they log on to Safe Exam Browser which will require their phone.
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- If you suspect that there has been a problem with security or cheating during the exam, please contact Digital Education who will be able to advise you on how to proceed.
- If there are technical problems, you should allow extra time for students to complete the exam, so they are not disadvantaged.
- If you are having problems during a digital examination call the ISD Service One Desk IT on 020 7679 5000 (Ext: 25000 within UCL).
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