Safe Exam Browser Settings Recommendations

Safe Exam Browser Recommended Settings for in Class Exams in Moodle

We recommend that you use the following settings for Safe Exam Browser (highlighted). Note that you can enter these settings manually, or you can set them up in a configuration file and upload that file for use. You can modify these settings however you wish, and save them as a "config.seb" file, which is just an XML (text) file with the settings detailed, which can then be loaded into other Quizzes you use in a course in Moodle. There are, in fact, many other settings for Safe Exam Browser generally, and you can find them at the Safe Exam Browser developer site.

Recommended Safe Exam Browser settings details:

Recommended setting in Bold & (Parentheses)

1. Require the use of Safe Exam Browser
   No             (Yes – Configure manually)            Yes – Upload my own config             Yes – Use SEB client config        

1. Show Safe Exam Browser download button
   (No)             Yes         - Unless this is a practice exam, to let students download Safe Exam Browser
2. Show Exit Safe Exam Browser button, configured with this quit link:
   (Enter link URL) - For example you could direct folks back to Moodle (https://moodle.swarthmore.edu))
3. Ask user to confirm quitting
   No             (Yes)        
4. Enable quitting of SEB
   No             (Yes)        
5. Quit password
   (Choose an easy to remember password)
6. Enable reload in exam
   No             (Yes)     
7. Show SEB task bar
   No             (Yes)        
8. Show reload button
   No             (Yes)        
9. Show time
   No             (Yes)         
10. Show keyboard layout
    No             (Yes)        
11. Show Wi-Fi control
    (No)             Yes        
12. Enable audio controls
    (No)             Yes         - unless this exam has an audio element and students have headphones/earbuds
13. Allow browser access to camera
    (No)             Yes                
14. Allow browser access to microphone
    (No)             Yes        
15. Enable spell checking
    (No)             Yes        
16. Enable URL filtering
    No             (Yes)        
17. Filter also embedded content
    (No)             Yes        
18. Expressions allowed
    (We suggest “moodle.swarthmore.edu” and “swarthmore.edu”)
19. Regex allowed
    (None)
20. Expressions blocked
    (None)
21. Regex blocked
    (None)