Constructor Proctor: December 24, 2024

Overview

In Release 26, we've made the following updates:

• Ability to move learners between proctoring rooms
• Sound notification for new chat messages
• Blocking of 'Game Bar' in Secure Browser
• Extended Secure Browser settings to Moodle plugin

What's new

Ability to move learners between proctoring rooms

Test administrators can manage the live proctoring process using the Rooms interface. Through this interface, they can view a list of all active proctoring rooms and the proctors and learners assigned to each room.

Administrators can now move learners between proctoring rooms. This functionality is useful when assigning a learner to a specific room with a designated proctor or when balancing workloads among proctors.

Sound notification for new chat messages

Learners now receive an audio notification whenever a proctor sends a new message in the chat room. This ensures learners are promptly alerted and do not miss important incoming messages.

Blocking of Game Bar in Secure Browser

Game Bar is a built-in Windows application that allows users to capture videos and screenshots while playing games. From a proctoring perspective, however, this feature is a potential vulnerability and could be exploited for cheating.

To address this, we've improved our Secure Browser so that access to the Game Bar is blocked for the full duration of the proctored exam in 'High' or 'Medium' security modes.

Extended Secure Browser settings in Moodle plugin

With the updated Moodle plugin, test organizers can now independently set the Secure Browser mode for each exam. Previously, it was only possible to select a single mode for all exams.

The plugin also allows test organizers to specify lists of allowed and forbidden processes.