Proctoring

Why LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor?

Miss Ai
12 Jun, 2024

Why LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor?

Here are some testimonies from critical users

Amanda (Delgado CC):

We’ve been with Respondus for around 15 years, and as our faculty needs have changed, Respondus has changed along with us. For instance, they now have a lot of integrations with publisher platforms which are covered

By the same license.

John (Baylor):

We don’t push products. It’s almost always driven by faculty requests. When we are asked, “Hey, do we have some sort of proctoring solution?” we tell them about Respondus. We also make sure they know where to get the

Training and support they need. We don’t need to do a lot of in-house support for Respondus. We rely on their support, the [live chat], the resources they offer, all the videos, and live training sessions. From our perspective, adoption is really easy. It’s like, yeah, here’s where you go, now go have fun.

John (Baylor):

For us, success is a proctoring solution that is easy for the faculty to use and understand. The process to enable the Respondus solution within [the LMS] is one of the easiest things an instructor can do. We don’t do a lot

of training on our campus. We only have one person on our team who does training. We send a lot of people to Respondus for training [which is free], we post the resources and videos from Respondus … Ease of use is

a big, big factor for us.

Jeff (NKU):

At NKU, success is giving faculty assurance that online testing can occur in a fair environment and that we’ve taken steps to prevent students from being dishonest. In some of our student surveys, we find that they worry about cheating by other students — that they won’t be judged fairly against other students who are being dishonest. This technology helps to address that.

Amanda (Delgado CC):

I would say that success is defined by student and teacher satisfaction. We gather that type of data in surveys … We recently tried to do a pilot of another proctoring application. Students in those classes were outraged that they weren’t using Respondus. That feedback says a lot …

Adding to [Jeff’s] point, students will tattletale on other students because they get upset that their hard work is not being recognized when other individuals [are cheating]. I feel that when students have academic dishonesty or testing violations, it’s often out of desperate need of the moment, not because they’re not capable of doing the work [honestly]. How does your institution define success for proctoring technologies?