SEB uses encrypted. Also see the how to use SEB 2. SEB allows to manage exam startup and SEB configuration in many ways, so a wide area of scenarios is supported, depending on your specific needs.
Please understand that you also have to configure your exam system correctly to be locked down securely. SEB is generally locking down exam client computers only, not the exam system or the quiz module of a learning management system. Some learning management systems require plugins to be installed to fully support secure exams taken with SEB, others have built-in support. Since Moodle 3. The new "deeper integration" is also available as plugin for Moodle 3.
If possible, use this new SEB support in Moodle. Refer to the official Moodle documentation for details. Please note that our SEB support cannot answer specific Moodle questions, use the documentation on moodle. See below the two older options how to activate SEB support in Moodle, which are no longer available or don't make sense in current Moodle versions:.
Sometimes hiding of the course navigation, link to the user's Moodle profile, logout etc. If this happens only with your customized theme and not the standard Moodle theme, then your theme is not implemented correctly.
In that case you should fix the problem in your custom Moodle theme. You may also create URL filter rules in the SEB configuration to only allow access to the exam and no other parts of Moodle, but this is not trivial and we cannot provide you with any support on that.
You may find additional information and help in the discussion boards for SEB and Moodle. The assessment mode allows course authors to limit the functionality and access of OpenOLAT courses for exam settings. One of the many security features is the enforced usage of Safe Exam Browser. An exam setting can be configured with multiple Browser Exam Key keys. No additional software needs to be installed in order to use the assessment mode together with Safe Exam Browser.
Within the courses the configuration is done in the course menu. More information and a video tutorial about the assessment mode. If you require an MSI package for installing SEB using a deployment system, then you can find them alongside the setup bundle on our offical download mirrors see link above. Updating: In most cases you can just run the installer of the new SEB version and it will automatically update from the previous to the new version.
The client configuration see below will not be removed or replaced, as it is compatible with any new SEB version. If you were using a significantly older SEB version 2. Then install the new SEB version.
If uninstalling using the Windows Control Panel doesn't work, then you can try to use the installer of the exact same SEB version you had installed contact us if you don't have that installer version anymore and it's no longer available for download. If this still doesn't work, then your Windows system got corrupted.
SEB is using the standard Windows Installer procedures for installing and uninstalling and those can fail in some cases, which is not connected to SEB itself. On the main screen SEB opens its web browser window filling the whole screen optionally the browser window can be resized and moved or switched to fullscreen. SEB by default doesn't allow the navigation buttons, but they may be enabled via the configuration.
The optional reload button in the SEB taskbar, the browser toolbar if activated or the key F5 can be used to reload the current page.
Quitting SEB can optionally be switched off or password protected. When SEB quits, the applications which were running before starting it will get unhidden again as long as settings didn't force to quit those applications. In the SEB configuration tool window, settings are grouped in several panes. There you can set the parameters described below. Please note: On a managed exam computer you probably should copy the default client settings file SebClientSettings.
If such a file exists in this location, this will be read by SEB with first priority and another file at the Local Application Data folder of the current user will be ignored.
You should only use a client settings file SebClientSettings. New browser window size and position : You can enter the dimensions in pixels or percent values in the text field manually or select one of the predefined values from the drop down list.
Width : Set the width of an new browser window in percentage of the current screen width or in pixel Height : Set the height of an new browser window in percentage of the current screen height or in pixel Horizontal positioning : Set the horizontal positioning of the new window, if size is not fullscreen Browser Security.
Use SEB without browser window : If you intend to use another application for an exam and don't need to display any web content on the exam client, you can switch off the SEB browser with this option. They both depend on all configuration values defined for a file, i.
The keys can be used independently from each other, but both are sent with every HTTP request if activated. Copy a key to the according field in your quiz settings in the exam system having support for SEB 2. If currently no quit password is set, this option does not apply. Use the following parameter to control whether a browser session shall be persited on disk, e.
This feature e. You can allow third party applications to be used while SEB is running. Usually you would enable the SEB taskbar, then for each allowed application with the setting "Icon in taskbar" enabled an application icon will be displayed in the SEB taskbar. Clicking on the icon starts the application when it's not yet running or brings its window s to the foreground. If a running application has several windows open, SEB displays a window chooser.
You can switch between open windows with keys Alt-Tab as well. SEB allows only applications to run which are configured in "Permitted Processes" as long as the "Monitor processes" setting above is active. But SEB cannot prevent these applications from:.
So if you use an application which can open and save files and displays a file dialog, students can access local and network drives on the exam computer. SEB only has a URL filter for the built-in browser, other applications and the system are not blocked from accessing the internet. So any third party software with a built-in help browser or similar can be used to cheat during an exam. Therefore using such applications requires additional measures, as for example a drive which is cleaned before every exam on a managed computer and a firewall either hardware or firewall filter rules in a virtual desktop, see below.
If you intend to use SEB with third party applications on unmanaged computers BYOD, student owned machines , you should run the exam including those third party applications in a secured virtual machine, usually this would be a virtual desktop. This technical paper describes the virtual desktop infrastructure VDI environment ETH Zurich the top ranked university in continental Europe which is the driving force behind the development of SafeExamBrowser is using for such exams.
For other less technical papers on our exam environment, see our publications page. Our environment runs on managed computers and uses the VMware View Client software secured by SEB on the local machine and another instance of SEB running inside the virtual desktop, allowing to use the configured permitted third party applications in addition to an exam displayed by the SEB browser.
The entire exam takes place in the virtual desktop, which can be perfectly secured. You also don't have to worry about distributing, configuring and licensing those third party applications you want to use in exams to students, as you just have to install and configure these applications once on the master image for the VDI exam pool.
If an exam computer breaks down during the exam, no data is lost, as everything is running inside the virtual desktop on your server infrastructure. Usually such exams would have a browser-based part, where you place the questions and maybe template files, which students then can open in the permitted third party applications. After they finish working on those documents, they can save the results and upload them into the exam, using a file upload question type.
Students can only interact with the empty file system inside the virtual desktop, they also cannot access the local file systems or connected USB sticks on their BYOD exam computers. Applications which have the Force quit parameter set are automatically terminated without asking the user. Third party applications and processes which are permitted to run during an exam. Permitted applications show up in the application chooser with their icon and their application name set with the parameter title , they can be used during an exam in addition to the SEB browser.
List of processes which are prohibited to run during an exam. With the prohibited processes list, you can prevent some specific applications and background processes from running together with SEB. Don't use this on system processes or only with care test if the system continues to run safely when the prohibited processes are killed by SEB. SEB will always ask the user first to quit the applications in the prohibited processes list manually when starting up or before starting an exam using an SEB link if exam settings contain different prohibited processes than SEB client settings and SEB was started directly, not by opening a SEB link from another browser.
Since SEB 2. They cannot be removed from the prohibited processes list if you try, the SEB client will automatically add them again. So if you change parameters like "Active" for such processes, SEB will use your preference.
For processes for which it doesn't matter if they are terminated by SEB like applications implementing proper autosave or if they don't contain any user inputed data which might be lost if they are terminated , you can set the parameter "Force quit".
Then SEB doesn't ask the user to quit the process, but just terminates it silently. It might be an inconvenience having to quit running applications before starting an exam, but this is the only possible way for SEB to prevent that some specific applications could be used for cheating.
The safest exam environment would be if students would quit ALL applications before the exam. It is planned, however, to provide this feature again with a later version 3. The table contains URL filter rules, consisting of an allow or block action. The URL filter always first processes rules with the block action, if one matches, then the according http request is discarded.
If no block rule matched, then rules with an allow action are processed. If one matches, then the request is loaded. If no allow rule matched, then the request is discarded.
Discarding a http request means that a link with the URL is not followed and the user is notified with an alert. Randomly order the sections, pages, questions, and even options. Proctors can watch live both webcam and screen recordings videos of all the exam participants. Online exams are increasingly preferred by companies and educational institutions due to the conveniences they provide in many ways.
Likewise, if the necessary precautions are not taken, online exams may also turn into a platform that gives many possibilities for candidates to cheat. Therefore, the security aspect of online exams is undeniably crucial. SEB enables secure exams on unmanaged iOS devices like students' own iPads as well as on iOS devices owned and managed by an institution.
SEB doesn't use a centralized server or cloud service; it can be configured with an API, config files and config links. It can be used with most web-based quiz and e-assessment systems. For improved security and usability, some exam systems provide additional built-in support for SEB. SEB uses one of the single app modes provided by iOS.
After an exam is submitted, SEB can automatically end the app self-lock kiosk mode an exam invigilator could also use a quit password to end the SEB exam session and unlock the device if necessary.
SEB features an optional Dock displaying buttons for various commands. SEB for iOS uses the same format for encrypted. Those config files allow to individually configure SEB to display the start page of an exam system or an exam portal page with a list of links to current exams. You can also directly start an exam with an individual configuration in SEB for iOS using a special config hyperlink.
This link can be opened by examinees from Safari, Mail or a messenger app. Prohibited processes and applications can be defined which are closed when SEB starts up.
SEB contains a list of default prohibited processes too. PrintScreen can be blocked, the clipboard is cleared when SEB is started and stopped. Security feature which monitors processes and hinders all non-permitted applications to open, become active and display windows while SEB is running. Individual proxy settings, URL filters and server certificates can be used per exam. SEB config files saved for configuring a client can contain embedded cryptographic identities X.
Screen saver and idle sleep are paused while SEB is running to prevent having to enter an screen unlock password before the exam starts. Can save. Configuration files can configure a SEB exam client to show for example a portal page with the current exams.
Configuration files can be used to start an exam with individual configuration like specific security and user interface options, permitted third party applications and additional resources, Browser Exam Key for authenticating these settings and the SEB application to an exam server, Quit Link to close SEB automatically when an exam is submitted etc.
For debugging purposes. Support for the modern WebKit browser engine WKWebView , which increases performance, stability and compatibility with web applications.
You can use web-based video conferencing and remote proctoring solutions, as long as the requirements explained in release notes are met, so that SEB can use the modern WebView. We recommend to only use macOS versions which still receive security updates from Apple the three most recent, currently macOS This caused pages with yet unknown domains to not load.
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