One of the keyword sets that has come up quite a bit since I posted about testing the Lock Down Browser has been “cheat lockdown browser”. So I thought one of the ways to do that would be to see if LDB know if it is indeed running inside a virtual machine – some applications are agnostic to the fact, others are aware. And LDB… at least from Respondus is aware of this:
So it seems that the only way to get around this would be to use a second machine – laptop/desktop or mobile to get answers, but then you are still having to waste time getting those answers, and instructors, if you are afraid of cheating. Put in a little bit of time and make your questions the the type that can’t be copied – ones that require a little bit of synthesis.
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