[LON-CAPA-users] Proctor Password Slots/Assessments

[Mills, Douglas G]

Thank you Stuart.

Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technology
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois







On 6/17/15, 3:23 PM, "Stuart Raeburn" <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

>Hi Doug,
>
>See: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6763
>See:  
>http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-cvs/Week-of-Mon-20150615/02678
>6.html
>
>When the timer parameter is set (and the scope is for all items in a
>folder),
>e.g., for a remote proctored exam, students currently need to remain
>in place in the proctored environment until the time allotted to the
>exam has elapsed.
>
>The next LON-CAPA release will contain a "done button" which the
>student can use to indicate that he/she wishes to end the exam. Once
>that button has been pushed) and the student has also confirmed that
>he/she is "done"), and the action has been processed server-side, the
>student's access to items in the exam folder will cease, and the
>student may leave the proctored environment.
>
>
>Stuart Raeburn
>LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We've not used this before but are looking into it. We have some
>> online courses currently running and will be using ProctorU for the
>> exams in one of them. One concern that's been raised about the
>> security here is what is to prevent a student from signing up for a
>> slot to take the exam with proctor u, go through it quickly and
>> claim to be done after about half the time is gone, sign off, etc.
>> but then come back unproctored before the 90-minute time limit has
>> expired?  I just tested this in my demo course and it seems that
>> once the proctor has authenticated to give access, the student can
>> log out of Lon-Capa, come back and have access again as long as the
>> time has not expired.  Am I missing something there?  I admit
>> readily to being a novice at using Slots so perhaps there's a
>> setting there which could prevent that behavior?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Douglas Mills
>> Director of Instructional Technology
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Illinois
>
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