Set Up a Brightspace Exam: Quiz Settings, LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor

Set Up a Brightspace Exam: Quiz Settings, LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor

Learn how to review Brightspace exam settings, enable Respondus LockDown Browser, and configure Respondus Monitor recording when required.

• Review exam timing, attempts, and feedback settings.
• Enable LockDown Browser and optional Respondus Monitor recording.
• Make the quiz available and prepare students with a practice quiz.

Before you begin

Create your quiz and add its questions before following these steps. This tutorial covers the quiz settings to review and how to enable Respondus.

• LockDown Browser restricts access to other applications and websites while students take a quiz, subject to the options you allow.
• Respondus Monitor adds recording for an online exam. It is used with LockDown Browser and must be enabled separately when required.

Step 1: Open your quiz

1. Sign in to Okanagan College Brightspace and open your course.
2. Select Assessments → Quizzes. You can also access Quizzes through Course Admin.
3. Select the name of the quiz you want to configure.

Course navigation: Assessments → Quizzes.

Step 2: Check the dates and availability

1. Review the quiz Due Date.
2. Expand Availability Dates & Conditions.
3. Review the Start Date and End Date. Make sure the dates match the exam instructions you give students.
4. Allow enough time for students to launch LockDown Browser, complete any Monitor startup checks, and take the quiz. Review Special Access for students who need different dates or extra time.

Quiz due date and availability dates.

Step 3: Set the time limit

1. Expand Timing & Display on the Edit quiz page.
2. Set or confirm the quiz time limit.
3. Select Timer Settings.
4. Choose the timer behaviour that matches your exam. For an exam that should submit when time expires, select the option to automatically submit the quiz attempt.
5. Confirm when the timer begins: when each student starts their attempt, or at the scheduled start time for everyone.
6. Save the timer settings.

Quiz time limit and timer settings.

Step 4: Check the number of attempts

1. Expand Attempts & Completion.
2. Select Manage Attempts.
3. Set the number of attempts students are allowed. For example, use one attempt for an exam or multiple attempts for a practice quiz.
4. Save the attempt settings.

Number of permitted quiz attempts.

Step 5: Choose when students can see results

1. Expand Evaluation & Feedback.
2. Review Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion.
   • Leave it selected if students should receive their results as soon as they finish.
   • Clear it if you want to review attempts and publish results later.
3. Under When published, display to learners, choose whether students will see their attempt grade and which questions or answers they can review.
4. If needed, use Customize Quiz Results Displays to configure the feedback view or a later dated view.
5. Select Save and Close to save your quiz settings.

Result publishing and feedback settings.

Step 6: Enable LockDown Browser

1. Return to Assessments → Quizzes.
2. Select the LockDown Browser tab.
3. Find your quiz in the Respondus dashboard.
4. Select the arrow beside the quiz name, then select Settings.
5. Select Require Respondus LockDown Browser for this exam.

Open the quiz settings in the LockDown Browser dashboard.

Require Respondus LockDown Browser for the exam.

Step 7: Review optional LockDown Browser settings

1. If the exam needs an access password, enter it in the Respondus Password Settings area.
2. Expand Advanced Settings.
3. Enable only the options your exam needs, such as:
   • A calculator on the toolbar.
   • Access to specific external web domains.
   • Requiring students to remain in LockDown Browser until the exam is completed.
4. Use the explain link beside an option to review how it works before enabling it.

Optional LockDown Browser settings.

Step 8: Add Respondus Monitor, if required

Skip this step if your exam only requires LockDown Browser.

1. In the same settings panel, locate the Respondus Monitor or proctoring section.
2. Select the option to require Respondus Monitor for the exam.
3. Choose the recording mode offered for your exam: Webcam Only, Webcam + Screen, or Screen Only, where available.
4. Review the Startup Sequence.
5. Edit Additional Instructions to explain what students need to prepare and what materials they may use.
6. Configure Show ID if identification is required for your exam.

Respondus Monitor recording options & startup sequence.

Step 9: Save and confirm the requirement

1. Select Save + Close in the Respondus settings panel.
2. Check the dashboard to confirm that LockDown Browser is Required for your quiz, and that Monitor is required if you enabled it.
3. If the dashboard displays Error with a Fix It button, use it to correct the configuration and check the status again.

Step 10: Make the quiz available in Content

If students will access the quiz from a course module:

1. Open Content and select the module where the quiz should appear.
2. Select Add Existing.
3. Locate and select your quiz from the available activities.
4. Confirm that the module and quiz link are visible to students and that the quiz itself is not hidden.

Adding a quiz to Content provides a link to the existing quiz. Its availability dates and conditions still apply.

Add the existing quiz to Content.

Quiz link in the course module.

Step 11: Give students an ungraded practice quiz

1. Create a short, ungraded practice quiz that does not affect the course grade. Clearly identify it as an ungraded practice activity.
2. Apply the same LockDown Browser requirement, Monitor recording mode, startup checks, and relevant advanced settings as the exam.
3. Make the practice quiz available before exam day.
4. Ask students to complete it on the device they plan to use for the exam. Direct them to OC's institution-specific LockDown Browser installation instructions if they need to install it.
5. Ask students to report problems before the exam so there is time to resolve them.

Final check

• Dates, time limit, timer behaviour, attempts, and any Special Access are correct.
• Results and correct answers will be released at the intended time.
• The Respondus dashboard shows the required settings.
• Students can find the exam and have completed the ungraded practice quiz on their exam device.

Need Help?

For support with quiz settings, LockDown Browser, or Respondus Monitor, contact the Educational Technology team.

edtech@okanagancollege.ca