Honorlock - Overview (UW-Madison)

Honorlock will be available for use in for-credit courses on July 6, 2020.

This document provides an overview of how to get started using Honorlock in Canvas.

    About Honorlock

    Honorlock is an online, automated proctoring solution that helps instructors foster academic integrity when providing remote assessments to students. Honorlock is designed for assessments built in the Canvas learning management system (LMS), particularly in Canvas Quizzes. It also works with 3rd party tools, such as Atomic Assessments and publisher Digital Learning Tools. Honorlock is available to all UW-Madison faculty, instructors and students in credit-based courses starting in July 2020.

    Honorlock uses a webcam and microphone connected to the student’s computer along with a browser extension in Google Chrome that can track student activity during the exam and lock down the student’s browser. Honorlock flags certain behaviors that may appear to be acts of academic misconduct, which the instructor can review after the student completes the exam. When setting up the exam for proctoring using Honorlock, instructors can enable settings such as the lockdown browser, allowing a calculator, requiring a 360-degree room scan, or whitelisting URLs that are acceptable for use during the exam.

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    Getting Started - Students

    Honorlock is used to proctor exams online in your course. For instructions on how to use Honorlock, please see Honorlock’s knowledge base documentation. In particular, these documents and videos will be useful to review prior to your exam.


    Getting Started - Instructors

    Instructors interested in using Honorlock in their course can follow these steps:

    1. Follow the instructions to enable Honorlock in your Canvas course: Honorlock - Enabling Honorlock in Canvas
    2. Get in touch with an Honorlock representative. You can either email support@honorlock.com, call their support line at 844-243-2500, or, once Honorlock is integrated in your course, you can also use Honorlock’s chat feature directly in Canvas.
    3. For extensive product documentation, including tutorials, please see Honorlock’s knowledge base. In particular, these documents and videos will be useful for you to review. 

    Getting Support

    If you have questions about the tool or are having technical difficulty while using Honorlock, please contact Honorlock using the chat feature directly in Canvas, call their support phone number (844) 243-2500, or email support@honorlock.com. 



    Keywords:Honorlock, honor lock, proctoring, online proctoring, remote proctoring, academic integrity, getting started, overview, exam, finals, test   Doc ID:103206
    Owner:Learn@UW Madison .Group:Learn@UW-Madison
    Created:2020-06-19 09:20 CDTUpdated:2020-06-29 13:17 CDT
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