Test security settings in Inspera Assessment are crucial for maintaining test integrity and preventing unauthorized actions. 

This article describes various options for requiring a lockdown browser, managing invigilator passwords, enabling plagiarism and identity checks, and setting up additional access controls.

Security settings

These settings are vital for ensuring the fairness and validity of your assessments, particularly in unproctored or semi-proctored environments. They provide tools to enhance security measures during the test.

Require lockdown browser

• If your exam will be carried out using Safe Exam Browser (SEB) or/and Inspera Lockdown for Chromebooks, you must check these boxes in the security settings. Enabling a lockdown browser means candidates are restricted to the test environment, preventing access to other applications or the internet. (For more information about configuring lockdown tests, refer to the relevant help article.)

  Read more about lockdown tests.

  How to install the Inspera Assessment lock-down browser for Chromebook.

Open browser

• This feature requires activation.

  Inspera Assessment offers the option of using an invigilator password for open browser tests. This feature requires activation. It can be a useful option for computer lab setups that also have a controlled network that doesn't allow general access to the internet. 

  For more information, refer to the article on invigilator passwords.

• This feature requires activation.

  When this option is enabled, an originality check will be available in the Marking tool after the service has completed the analysis

  For more information about Inspera Originality, refer to the Originality reports article.

• ID verification is primarily done by checking the student's ID card after the candidate has submitted their test. The purpose of this functionality is to prevent candidates from leaving without having their identity confirmed or rejected. 

  For a full ID check guide, refer to the ID check guide. article.

• When setting up an open school-based exam, you have the option to require a password for candidates to access the exam.

  For more information on day passwords, refer to the Day password article.

• This will require Invigilators to start the test manually via the Monitor module.

Invigilator instructions PDF

• The invigilator will receive the instructions available for download, along with the invigilator password. The availability time for these instructions is configurable, with a standard setting of 60 minutes before the test opens. 

  For more details, refer to the Invigilator instructions article.