Electronic Exams

Exams can be taken in the classroom on students’ devices. Some tips to deliver in-class Canvas exams:

• Provide a practice exam in advance for students to make sure their hardware/software is working.
• Honorlock and Respondus Lockdown Browser provided options for proctoring; see Academic Integrity Tools below
• Have printed exams avaialble (students don't have a computer, might run out of power, or have computer/internet issues)

S121 Elliott Hall is the Department of Psychology’s Computerized Assessment Center (PCAC) with about 40 computer workstations. The room can be reserved by completing the S121 Reservation Form.

Be aware that S124 (connected to S121) has 12 workstations and can be booked separately. 

• Honorlock
  • Honorlock at the UMN: Get started.
  • Canvas: Enable Honorlock.
     
• Respondus LockDown Browser
  Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down your computer when taking a quiz. Canvas course site instructors manage Respondus LockDown settings from the LockDown Browser Dashboard in Course Navigation.
  This tool can be used for electronic exams in the classroom.
  Students have to install LockDown Browser ahead of the exam. For support, they can contact the UMN Helpdesk (Coffman Union and Blegen Hall on TC campus has a walk-in support site).
   

• Turnitin
  The Turnitin in Canvas supports tools for plagiarism prevention (originality checking) and  feedback to students. Be aware that we have two ways to use Turnitin with Canvas

  • Get Started with Turnitin LTI 1.3
  • Use the Canvas Plagiarism Framework (CPF) with Turnitin

  The University has no general license to use Turnit outside of Canvas. 

Due dates and access dates, additional time, and additional attempts for online exams can be granted on an individual basis:  Canvas: Moderate a Student's Quiz.

Overview of how Canvas Quiz time limit, until date, and due date work. 

• Classic Quizzes can be printed with the Chrome Extention “Canvas Print Quiz.”
• New Quizzes have a built-in print feature: How do I print a quiz in New Quizzes?

Eventually, Canvas will retire Classic Quizzes.  A transfer of Classic Quizzes including quiz banks to New Quizzes will be available when the time comes.

• Canvas: Understand Classic Quizzes vs. New Quizzes

Follow these directions: Add Quiz Questions To Canvas By Converting CSV Files To QTI ZIP Files.