Taking a Test with the Respondus LockDown Browser
The Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment for tests taken in Blackboard. If your faculty requires that you use the Respondus LockDown Browser for your test in Blackboard, you need to download and install the browser, and use it to log in to Blackboard to take the test.
Download Respondus LockDown Browser Link
While you are using Respondus LockDown Browser, you will be unable to copy, print, access other applications, visit other websites, or close the test until it is submitted. LockDown Browser functions much like a standard browser, but some options have been removed or work differently.
For example, the toolbar is modified to only include Forward, Back, Refresh, and Stop functions. Students cannot enter a web address to go to another site, and they cannot open other tabs (unless a link to another site is included within a test question). The browser is displayed full-screen and cannot be minimized, resized, or exited until the test is submitted. In addition, all printing, keyboard shortcuts, screen capture, function keys, and right-click menus are disabled.
If your faculty has enabled it, you may be able to access a calculator in the toolbar during your test. Any hyperlinks within your test will work, so that you can access the web page you need for the test, but you will not be able to navigate to other pages within the website.
Respondus LockDownn Browser is NOT currently compatible with smart phones.
Best Practices for Using Respondus Lockdown Browser in ULTRA View Courses:
- Close all programs on your computer before logging into Blackboard to take your quiz or exam using Respondus Lockdown Browser.
- Click and open your course where you need to complete your exam that requires Respondus Lockdown Browser.
- Search and click to open your test.
- If Respondus Lockdown Browser prompts you to close and open program choose YES to close any open programs.
- Click and save your test answers.
- Click the Submit button to submit your test.
Best Practices for Using Respondus Lockdown Browser in ORIGINAL View Courses:
- Close all programs on your computer before opening Respondus Lockdown Browser.
- Once all the programs on your computer are closed, open the Respondus Lockdown Browser by clicking the Respondus Lockdown Browser Icon that looks like a padlock on your desktop.
- If Respondus Lockdown Browser prompts you to close an open program choose YES to close any open programs.
- Once Respondus Lockdown Browser opens it will automatically navigate to the SouthArk Balckboard website.
- Login to Blackboard.
- Click and open your course where you need to complete your exam that requires Respondus Lockdown Browser.
- Search and click to open your test.
- Click and save your test answers.
- Click the Submit button to submit your test.
- Close the browser opened by Respondus Lockdown Browser.
If you are having troubles, make sure that you have already downloaded Respondus Lown Browser to your computer. Also, check to make sure to follow the steps depending on if your course is an Ultra View course or not an Original view course.
Note: If you are in an Original Course View, if you are having troubles and being asked for a password to open Respondus, it is because you have opened it in your web browser. You need to click on the Respondus Icon ON YOUR DESKTOP and then proceed to BlackBoard.