Faculty Resource Managing Exams - Basics

HonorLock is an advanced remote proctoring solution aimed at upholding academic integrity in online assessments. Utilizing AI technology and live proctors, it monitors exam sessions to ensure fairness and compliance with academic standards.

For faculty and students, HonorLock offers the benefits of maintaining exam integrity, enabling remote exam-taking flexibility for students, and reducing the workload associated with exam monitoring.

Getting Started: Enabling Honorlock in Canvas

This proctoring service (LTI) will be available within every Canvas shell for every instructor to utilize for Quizzes and Exams.

Honorlock now provides support for both:

Canvas Classic Quizzes
Canvas New Quizzes

Enabling the Honorlock LTI - complete these steps for each shell utilizing Honorlock, unless the Canvas shell is copied:

1. Locate the shell you want to enable the LTI in by selecting it
2. Open the course settings
3. Click into the course navigation tabs for the course (the top middle tab says navigation)
4. Find, select, and drag the "HonorLock 1.3" tab from the bottom to the top of the page and release
5. Save it, once the tab is arranged in the viewable course tabs appropriately

After completing this, you must enable your Canvas Quizzes and activate the appropriate HonorLock Proctoring Settings for each.

HonorLock Dashboard

The HonorLock Dashboard has different areas to adjust and explore:

Email Notifications: Modify the notifications settings for your Quizzes/Exam
Proctoring Settings: Customize your exam experience by selecting from the proctoring options
Student Guidelines: Define what your students can and cannot do during the exam session
Accommodations: Provide us with any special accommodations that may be necessary for some students
Exam Visibility: Determine whether students are able to view this exam outside of the exam dates

Each Exam/Quiz must be enabled and set up appropriately with settings unless the course is copied over - the settings will follow into the new shell.

Enable each Quiz/Exam that HonorLock will proctor and apply the appropriate settings

Each Quiz/Exam that is built into your Canvas shell will be listed in the dashboard area, locate your Quizzes
Select the blue button "Enable" on your Quizzes/Exams
Explore the "Proctoring Settings" area in your dashboard and activate or deactivate Honorlock settings by checking or unchecking each item

HonorLock Settings

Customize your exam experience by selecting from the proctoring options below:

Record Webcam: Record student's testing environment while testing, used with webcam
Record Screen: Record the student's screen during the exam
Record Web Traffic: Log student's internet activity
Student photo: Capture student photo before the assessment begins
Student ID: Capture ID photo before the assessment begins
Room Scan: Record a 360-degree environment scan before the assessment begins
Manual Review: Post-exam review of exam session recording by a proctor
Basic Calculator: Allow access to a basic on-screen calculator
Scientific Calculator: Allow access to a scientific on-screen calculator
Disable Copy/Paste: Block clipboard actions
Disable Printing: Block printing exam content
Browser Guard: Limit browser activity to exam content and allowed site URLs only
Allowed Site URLs: Allow access to specific websites during an exam session
Simulated-Not Proctored: Students' sessions will not be recorded or flagged

Student Guidelines

Define what your students can and can-not do during the exam session:

Open Book Allow: A book can be referenced
Notes Allowed: Pre-written paper notes can be referenced
Scratch Paper Allowed: Paper and a writing utensil can be used
Restroom Breaks Allowed: Students can leave the webcam view for a short period of time
Handheld Calculator Allowed: A physical calculator can be used
Headphones Allowed: Students can wear headphones during assessment
Hats Allowed: A hat can be worn on the student's head
Take Exam in Public Area: Background noise and multiple people are expected
Background Noise Allowed: Occasional sounds expected in the testing environment
Mobile Phone Use Allowed: Students can use a mobile phone during assessment

Additional Resources

Want to try what you've learned? Time to create a practice Quiz/Exam for your students:

Create a Practice Exam in Canvas | Honorlock Help Center (kb.help)Links to an external site.

Want to re-use your Proctoring and Student Guideline Settings? Create an Exam Profile: