Safe On-line Testing With Respondus Monitor in WebAssign

On-line programs have develop into a staple in larger schooling, with more than half of college students enrolling in not less than one on-line class in 2022. With this shift to distant studying, there comes a urgent want for safe on-line testing choices to uphold tutorial integrity. With suggestions and help from our instructors, we’ve made enhancements to WebAssign that can assist you monitor your on-line exams.

Increasing safe on-line testing choices in WebAssign

To help you in delivering safer on-line exams to your college students, WebAssign is increasing its LockDown Browser capabilities to incorporate the mixing of Respondus Monitor for fall 2025 lessons. Respondus Monitor is an automatic proctoring resolution that data college students through webcam throughout on-line exams and supplies instructors with helpful analytics to flag areas of concern. This function might be optionally available.

We selected to combine Respondus Monitor attributable to its popularity in the higher ed proctoring software market. Plus, Cengage instructors we surveyed recognized Respondus as their most popular resolution, making it a logical selection for bettering the integrity of on-line assessments. 

Key options of the Respondus Monitor integration

1. Customizable Monitoring Settings: You may tailor the monitoring expertise. For instance, you may require college students to point out their ID or examine their testing setting earlier than beginning the examination.
2. Webcam Recording: The mixing permits for dwell recording of scholars throughout assessments, guaranteeing a safe testing setting.
3. Entry to Proctoring Analytics: You’ll obtain complete proctoring outcomes, full with a Review Priority function that highlights potential areas of concern, serving to you identify which examination outcomes want additional evaluation.
4. Seamless Integration: This integration simplifies the method, permitting college students to navigate simply from their Studying Administration System (LMS) to WebAssign for his or her examination with out disruption.

Methods to buy Respondus Monitor

You and your colleagues will select the way to strategy buying Respondus Monitor. The choices embrace:

• Institutional Web site License Through Respondus: In case your establishment already has a Respondus web site license, it is possible for you to to attach that license with WebAssign. Then, you may allow Respondus Monitor for whichever assignments you select. College students won’t need to do something, as entry is already paid for by the establishment.
• Particular person Scholar Buy: After deciding on the person pupil buy possibility, you may allow the Respondus Monitor for assignments. The primary time the scholar goes to take their take a look at with Respondus Monitor, they are going to be prompted with a paywall that results in the Respondus eCommerce web site. As soon as they pay the payment they’ve limitless entry to take as many checks with Respondus as the trainer creates for that course.

As on-line schooling continues to develop, establishments and instructors proceed to discover new and revolutionary methods to uphold tutorial integrity of their programs. With the mixing of Respondus Monitor in WebAssign, we’re partnering with you to alleviate these considerations – providing you with extra choices to boost the safety of on-line testing in your programs.

Inquisitive about what else is new in WebAssign? Watch this video to get a tour of the newest updates.