Re: secure testing environment

["Colli, Anthony G." <Anthony.Colli () UVM EDU>]

Software Secure http://www.softwaresecure.com/Main.aspx provides a few different solutions for locking down browsers 
during an exam. We have been using a version of their Secure Exam Browser for quite some time. It blocks all other 
applications from being in the foreground, stops any remote processes like Virtual machines or RDP connections, and 
removes any keyboard shortcut key entries. About all the user gets is a browser that goes to a specifies URL and 
Ctrl-Alt-Del. We are now working with them to build a browser for a home grown exam system we have developed. 

-Anthony



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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of SCHALIP, 
MICHAEL
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:47 AM
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> From what I've seen with lock-down browsers - it's virtually impossible to start any kind of secondary processes like 
> IM'ing.....(I'm sure someone's going to tell me that this has been defeated - and it probably has - but no system is 
> perfect, right?)

The bigger challenge isn't just that the computer used for testing has to be locked down - there's the smartphone that 
the student also has in their pocket that they can google answers on.  

Bottomline - I don't think there's a way to use technology to fix a human-factors problem....

M

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Timothy T.
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] secure testing environment

Don't be too sure about in a lab with walk through inspections either. IM can be quickly sent to the systray when the 
proctor gets near. And if IM isn't installed, any user can still run pidgin w/o install privs.

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Ouellette
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] secure testing environment

I'm curious to know this kind of info myself - we've just recently started going Mobile for a large portion of our 
programs, with the onus of trying to use the mobile technology (laptops, in my case) in as much of the course delivery 
as possible ... and that includes online quiz/tests. 

 

Even with Cisco server based quiz/tests, there's always been some concerns about security and plagiarism.

And Blackboard isn't much better.

Short of having them in the lab and walking around to check up on them, it seems virtually impossible to lock-down... 

 

Sincerely,

 

Patrick Ouellette

Algonquin College - School of Advanced Technology

Program Coordinator: Computer Systems Technician & Technology Programs

Professor - Information and Communications Technology Department

 

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Bouwhuis, Hetty
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] secure testing environment

 

As a matter of fact, M: I'm looking for good examples of all (three) types of systems - regardless of the model  - 
provided that it works for teachers, secures testing, gives feedback, is user-friendly , used at several universities, 
...

 

Hetty

 

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