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Safe Exam Browser Settings Recommendations

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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)