While the general recommendation for assessment in a remote environment is to try to reimagine the final exam through ongoing assessments and/or final projects the following tips and tools will be helpful for delivering more traditional exams and quizzes online.

Create Exams That Minimize Cheating Opportunities

Use more essay questions
- Creating Essay Questions In Classic Quizzes
- Creating Essay Questions in New Quizzes
Shuffle Answers in Classic Quizzes
- In Classic quizzes there is a setting on the Quiz details page that shuffles the order of the answer options in Multiple Choice questions
Shuffle Questions in New Quizzes
- In New Quizzes you can shuffle questions as well as answers. See - How do I manage settings for a quiz in New Quizzes?
Use Questions Groups and Item Banks to randomly generate different exams for each student.
Have more questions on the exam than students could look up in the allotted time.

Using the Respondus Lockdown Browser

The Respondus Lockdown Browser is a browser that students download and install on their own computers. This special browser prevents the students from accessing anything other than the exam on their machine while taking the exam. It also disables the machine's copy and paste functionality.

Important! - Because this tool is installed on the student's own machine it is recommended that you provide a practice exam that can be used to verify that the software is working correctly on the student's machine.

Download the latest Emory installer for Respondus LockDown Browser

Read more about the Respondus Lockdown Browser

Proctoring Exams in Zoom

Because of the limits of the above tools and techniques many instructors choose to monitor their students in Zoom during exams. If you have a large class you can move students into Breakout rooms and have TAs or other instructors assist you with the monitoring.

You may have heard of a tool called Respondus Monitor that we had in 2020. This tool is no longer available at Emory.

It is not possible to use Zoom and Respondus Lockdown Browser at the same time.