Knowledgebase : Respondus LockDown Browser > General
If you are receiving the above error when either opening the LockDown
Browser Dashboard LTI tool, or running the integration test for your
Respondus Server profile, you should first check to see if the
relevant developer key is installed and enabled.
To ...
If you see a "Please Wait" message when saving settings for an exam in
the LockDown Browser Dashboard, it indicates a connectivity issue.
The first thing to check is the URL for your Learning Management
System. If you have SSL enabled for your LMS (exam...
The above error indicates the the exam's LockDown Browser settings
could not be detected. For Canvas users, this may be due to you not
letting each page fully load before clicking on the "Take Quiz"
button.
The open tab in LockDown Browser contains a ...
If the LockDown Browser Dashboard will open for some courses, but not
others, it may be caused by one of the following:
* there is an unacceptable symbol in the course title.
* there is an unacceptable symbol in one of the quiz titles.
You need to check...
The above errors typically occur because of one of the following:
1) The course is a copy, and the instructor did not open the LDB
Dashboard once before students began taking exams.
2) The course is not a copy, but the quiz in question was migrated
into ...
In Blackboard Learn (Original View), LockDown Browser uses the test
password functionality to ensure students are using LockDown Browser
to access the test. When a test is configured to use LockDown Browser,
a random password is added under the Blackboard...
By default, if an exam contains a link to an external web domain,
students can view the initial page but all links and navigation from
that page are blocked.
With the LockDown Browser Dashboard->"exam"->Modify Settings->Advanced
Settings->"Allow access ...
Yes LockDown Browser is part of the Windows Compatibility Program at
Microsoft. Each pre-release of Windows is tested with LockDown
Browser by Microsoft allowing Respondus to address any issues found
before the Windows release is publicly available.
The secure spreadsheet tool in LockDown Browser is intended to provide
the prime purpose of a spreadsheet to organize, manipulate and manage
tablular data.
To format the data with a set number of decimal points, the student
can use the "=TEXT(value, for...
This error can result when starting LockDown Browser, if your
Respondus Server Profile is hidden. Unhiding the profile typically
resolves the problem.
If you are using the LockDown Browser for iPad app to take a quiz, and
receive "to take this test, you must use a desktop or laptop", it is
likely because "enable submissions" has not been set for the quiz.
The 1001 error can sometimes occur if your LockDown Browser App is not
configured properly. The first thing to check is that you have
configured the app, copying/pasting the correct data for each field.
This includes:
* Consumer Key
* Shared Secret
...
If your institution's name is not showing up when searching for it in
LockDown Browser for Chromebook, you should check to see if your
Respondus server profile is hidden.
1) Log in to the Respondus Admin Area at:
https://www.respondus.com/campus-portal/l...
An embedded page at smc-service-cloud.respondus2.com says: Request to
fix the exam settings failed. Please contact the system administrator.
The above error can occur if you have locked your course and/or exam
(common for Canvas blueprint courses) and y...
If you have installed the LockDown Browser Dashboard LTI tool to your
Canvas instance, but still don't see it in the course menu, the
following explanations are possible explanations:
1) The LTI tool is configured incorrectly. Please see the LockDown
Br...
If you receive the above error when starting LockDown Browser, it's
likely because of over aggressive security software wrongly
determining that LockDown Browser is a threat. As a result, the
startup of LockDown Browser is interfered with, and the install...
If the instructor permissions are not specified correctly in D2L
Brightspace, the following error can occur when attempting view a
student submitted spread sheet.
Please ensure that all instructor roles have the ability to “see
user enrollments”. It's ...
The steps for preparing an assessment for use with Respondus LockDown
Browser are described in the "Instructor Quick Start Guide." This
guide can be viewed at
http://www.respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/guides.shtml
[http://www.respondus.com/produc...
Each institution (and each LMS) presents a different set of criteria
as to file types, embedding, etc. Because of this, each institution
must use trial/error in determining what methods to use in regards to
working with media files. This would also inclu...
This error is often caused by retrieving some tokens into the block
database using an incorrect Respondus Server Profile. If so, then the
clear tokens button in the settings must be used, or the block must be
uninstalled and reinstalled.
Instructors have the option of locking students into an exam until
they have submitted it for grading, or allowing them to exit early.
This optional exam setting for LockDown Browser has a default setting
of "off". When set to off, students who leave an...
LockDown Browser requires D2L Brightspace version 8.1.3 or higher.
LockDown Browser also needs to be enabled on the D2L Brightspace
server by the System Administrator. Please contact your System
Administrator to enable the Respondus LockDown Browser as do...
First, reference this article
[https://support.respondus.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/226/0/update-check-failed-error-code-a4]
and ensure that all the necessary servers are accessible via your
network and computer.
If you've determi...
Schoology sites will not be able to find their institution when using
the LockDown Browser iPad app search functionality.
This is because the iPad app should not be used to log in directly to
Schoology. Rather, students should use the mobile Safari app ...
Mac Trackpad users may experience the scrollbar not appearing during
an exam. To resolve the problem, on your Mac go to System Preferences
> General. Change "Show scroll bars" to "Always" as shown below.
This error typically occurs if your instructor role does not have a
check mark under the "Instructor" column in your Brightspace IMS
configuration.
1. Login as an administrator to the Brightspace server, locate the
Admin Tools menu, and select "IMS Conf...
A "Quick Start Guide for Instructors" and a "Quick Start Guide for
Students" are available at
http://www.respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/guides.shtml .
Demonstration and training movies are also available at
http://www.respondus.com/products/demos...
"Error sending exam start notification, unable to continue with exam."
This error will occur when the exam requires Respondus Monitor, but
the computer and/or network is not able to communicate with our
Monitor server. The following domain must be permi...
LockDown Browser does not cache images (like a standard browser does)
and overly large images can result in problems with LockDown Browser
loading the page. When such an image is detected, LockDown Browser
2.0.3 replaces it with the above image file. Lock...
This error is typically caused by using an ampersand (&) in the quiz
title. This bug has been reported to Schoology and may be fixed in a
future release of the Schoology LMS.
Removing the ampersand and replacing it with "and" will resolve the
problem. I...
The Respondus LockDown Browser uses the test password field to
restrict students from taking a test with the Blackboard Learn. With
the latest versions of the Respondus LockDown Browser Building Block
for Blackboard Learn 9.x and higher, when instructors ...
Some learning management systems have a quiz setting that causes this
behavior. In Blackboard, the setting is called "Forced
Completion". Other learning management systems may have similar
quiz settings.
If there is ever an interruption in the internet...
The following message can occur during a LockDown Browser integration
test if you have invalid or incomplete SSL certificates:
"Your SSL certificates are not valid. Self-signed certificates are not
supported by Respondus LockDown Browser. If your certifi...
Symptom: For one course, loading the Dashboard produces a STOP sign
error with the text: "Unexpected Error. Please contact the system
administrator".
If the Dashboard loads successfully for all courses but one, the very
first thing to inspect are the qu...
If the "Start Quiz" button is missing (both in a normal browser and
LockDown Browser) in Canvas, it's due to a Canvas bug with the start
date for the course.
The default start date for the course comes from the term settings,
but the start/end dates se...
When LockDown Browser installs, it must make some changes to the
Windows registry, including storing the unique LockDown Browser
institution ID. This error will occur when access to the registry is
denied. This typically occurs because the user doing the ...
If the LockDown Browser Dashboard is successfully loading for many
courses, but failing for one, the following are possible causes:
1. There may be an empty or corrupted value in the default
"Submissions" message. Here is a KB article that deals with a...
If you encounter the above error when attempting to download and/or
install LockDown Browser, then it's likely Windows Defender
interfering. To work around the problem, open Windows Defender on your
computer and start by disabling "Virus & Threat Protecti...
Please follow the below steps to use LockDown Browser to review exam
submissions in D2L Brightspace:
1) Login to D2L Brightspace using a standard browser (Google Chrome,
Firefox, etc.) If you are using an iPad, please use either Google
Chrome or Firefox...
This error can occur for "auto-launch" environments when any of the
following are true:
1) Your Respondus server profile is hidden. You'll want to ensure that
your server profile is set to "No" for the setting "Hide this server
from LDB."
2) For Black...
For sites using D2L Brightspace, when one or more quizzes do not show
in the LockDown Browser Dashboard, it is typically due to a "null" or
an empty value in the D2L "Message" field. This field permits you to
have a message presented to students upon test...
If you use the LockDown Browser iPad app, you may occasionally see
grey shapes on your screen. Example:
These shapes are caused by a Guided Access security feature that
permits a user to designate areas of the screen that they want to
block from being...
At startup, Respondus LockDown Browser will go to a Respondus server
to obtain the current settings for the institution. If the browser is
unable to access the Respondus servers, consider the items below:
1. Be sure your Internet connection is working.
...
The version number, and the availability of an update, can be
determined within the browser itself.
For Windows users, start LockDown Browser, select the "i" button from
the toolbar.
The version will be displayed and you can also click on "Check for
N...
LockDown Browser includes a basic spreadsheet tool that enables
.xls/.xlsx spreadsheets to be viewed and manipulated during an exam
session. This functionality is available for Windows, Mac, and iPad
editions of LockDown Browser.
Within the quiz tool of...
This error indicates the Respondus Monitor start-up cannot access the
Respondus servers to retrieve certain settings established by the
instructor.
Sometimes, you will see various error codes accompany the error, such
as: 0x0002
1) The error is often ...
Respondus LockDown Browser prevents other applications from being
accessed by the student during an assessment, including the Windows or
Mac "Calculator" tool. However, there are times when an instructor
wants to allow students to use an online calculator...
There are two options for uninstalling or removing LockDown Browser
from Windows systems.
Important note: Always run LockDown Browser one more time and then
immediately quit LockDown Browser before any uninstall or removal of
the program.
The recomme...
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