


#Safe exam browser install issues mac os
The Safe Exam Browser only works on Windows and Mac OS X, See for details.See this forum thread about Secure Quiz using Chromebook Kiosk App and User Agent. With Chromebooks, you can disable students’ access to browse the web during an exam in addition to disabling external storage, screenshots, and the ability to print. See this article about three ways of using chromebooks for student assessments: Chromebooks are a secure platform for administering student assessments, and when setup properly, these devices meet K-12 education testing standards. The system will show this prompt if learner have clicked the Launch in Safe Exam Browser'' button multiple times because the SEB application can’t execute multiple instances/windows/process. This is why it is only avaiable for certain systems. In order to lock everything down, SEB has to do a lot of operating-system-specific things. It would be a lot of work to make a version of SEB for Chromebooks. Chromebooks run a particular variant of Linux, so SEB is not avaialble there. Safe Exam Browser is only available for Windows and Mac. Surfing to other web sites is prohibited.Switching to other applications is disabled.Copy and paste, and the context menu, are disabled.Shortcuts keys such as Win, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Alt+F4, F1, Ctrl+P, Printscreen, are disabled.The window cannot be closed until the test is submitted.The browser window will be fullscreen (without any navigation elements).Students will only be able to attempt the quiz if they are using Safe Exam Browser.

The restrictions placed on students are similar to those in pop-up window case, but because Safe Exam Browser is software running on the student's computer, it can do a much more effective job of restricting their actions. Safe Exam Browser is a customised web browser, available for Windows and Mac Operating Systems, that must be downloaded and installed on the computer that the student uses to attempt the quiz.
