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)

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

Show Safe Exam Browser download button
(No) Yes - Unless this is a practice exam, to let students download Safe Exam Browser
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))
Ask user to confirm quitting
No (Yes)
Enable quitting of SEB
No (Yes)
Quit password
(Choose an easy to remember password)
Enable reload in exam
No (Yes)
Show SEB task bar
No (Yes)
Show reload button
No (Yes)
Show time
No (Yes)
Show keyboard layout
No (Yes)
Show Wi-Fi control
(No) Yes
Enable audio controls
(No) Yes - unless this exam has an audio element and students have headphones/earbuds
Allow browser access to camera
(No) Yes
Allow browser access to microphone
(No) Yes
Enable spell checking
(No) Yes
Enable URL filtering
No (Yes)
Filter also embedded content
(No) Yes
Expressions allowed
(We suggest “moodle.swarthmore.edu” and “swarthmore.edu”)
Regex allowed
(None)
Expressions blocked
(None)
Regex blocked
(None)