1. Provide secure environment for online assessment with Moodle – POC.
Steve Massicotte, University of Montréal

2. University of Montreal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
students
5 000 teachers
16 faculties and schools
2 associated universities
Moodle at UdeM
6 developers
3 support technicians (help line)

3. Plan Why making a POC (Proof of concept) ?
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Types of exam
Our plugin
Next steps

4. Why making a POC ?
Provide a secure environment for students who use their own laptops for exams.
Challenges :
Usable on Mac/Windows
Use in BYOD (Bring your own device)
Provide software they need (Office 365, WordQ, Balabolka, Antidote … and many others)
Securing environments to prevent cheating
Deploying a simple solution for all

5. Computer laboratory vs BYOD
All universities have classroom problems
Cost money to maintain
Are not flexible
BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
A lot of classrooms can be used for exam
No extra money to maintain classrooms
Flexible

6. BYOD - Responsabilities
BYOD – Student responsabilities
Install software and make first test at home
Bring laptop with enough battery and his charger
BYOD – University responsabilities
Provide classrooms with enough power outlet
Provide strong Wifi or network
Provide spare laptops for students who encounter problems during exam
Make some emergency plan
Help teachers with the transition

7. What kind of exam we provide ?
Currently in our proof of concept we can provide :
Quiz with no additional software
Quiz with specific software

8. Quiz with no additional software - What technologies
This solution is based on two main technologies
Safe Exam Browser – Web browser that you can control and run in kiosk mode
Moodle – Quiz activity - Provide a rich software to create and manage questions and a lot of configuration for the quiz itself

9. Quiz with no specific software - Student
1- Safe Exam Browser
2 – Access to Moodle
Click on the SEB file
Lock host computer
Redirect to Moodle
Access to Moodle Quiz

10. Quiz with no additional software - Teacher
The teacher use SEB Config Tool to create a .seb file
Moodle quiz URL

11. Quiz with no specific software - Safe Exam Browser
You have the control, and you can deploy .seb file to configure a client or an exam.
Open source project based on Firefox
Start exam in kiosk mode – no possibilities to switch to another application or use Windows/Mac
Control URLs and internet browsing
Give access to additional software
Encrypt your file and secure by password
Provide exam key to Moodle for security
Configure user client one time, and provide for each exam one exam configuration SEB file

12. Quiz with no specific software - Moodle
Provide some Quiz with many options.
Use your Moodle or dedicated instance for exam
Teachers already have skills with this tool
Multiple formats to import questions in Quiz
Password protection
Provide feedbacks
Integration with the grade book
Use plugin Safe Exam Browser quiz access rule to control exam key
No additional cost for university

13. Quiz with no specific software - Student
1- Safe Exam Browser
2 – Access to Moodle
Click on the SEB file
Lock host computer
Redirect to Moodle
Access to Moodle Quiz

14. Student computer
No tab, No address bar
Quit button

15. Student computer
Moodle Secure template

16. Quiz with specific software - What technologies
Our solution is based on tree main technologies
Safe Exam Browser
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) – Provide a machine that WE control
Moodle – Quiz activity

17. Quiz with specific software - VMware Horizon
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provide a new environment for the student, if you need to provide another application (like MathLab or Word).
Use your local infrastructure or CLOUD solution
Run another Safe Exam Browser in virtual machine
Features :
- VM pool (resources, size, duration, etc…)
- Authorization with Windows groups
Alternative we are checking
Windows Virtual Desktop from Microsoft

18. Quiz with specific software
1- Safe Exam Browser 1
2 – VDI – Access to VM
Click on the SEB file
Lock host computer
Redirect to VDI
Authentication
Select the VM
3 – VM Launch and access to Moodle
Windows authentication
Setup of the VM (automatic)
Lock the VM (Automatic - Safe Exam Browser 2)
Access to Moodle Quiz

19. Student computer
Safe Exam Browser 1 – Launch the connection to the VM
No tab, No address bar
Safe Exam Browser 2 – In the VM
Quit button
Permitted applications

20. Student computer
Safe Exam Browser 1
Safe Exam Browser 2
Moodle Secure template

21. Quiz with specific software – SEB Config Tool
The .seb file will include configuration on the specific software

22. Moodle plugin – My exam page
Is a simple web page that lists the exams that the student should take in the next few hours (usually one or two at most).
Key features :
Very light plugin
Use secured template to mask Moodle information and menus
Accessible only with Safe Exam Brower (use settings)
Next development adding SEB config file into Quiz

23. Plugin – My exam page

24. Plugin – My exam page

25. Plugin – My exam page

26. Next steps Doing test in real situation - Formative - Summative
Install Safe Exam Browser quiz access rule plugin
Capture feedback
Find the right way to create and distribute the .seb files
Think about using or not using a dedicated quiz instance of Moodle

27. Questions ?