

This article deals specifically with the Respondus product, but you may be working with another brand of browser that does something similar. Like people refer to all vacuum cleaners as “Hoovers,” it has become common to refer to all exam security browsers as “lockdown browsers.” However, LockDown Browser is a trademark of Respondus Inc. Introduction to Respondus LockDown Browser for Students Generic Use of “Lockdown Browser” That’s not an intrinsic part of the LockDown browser, but we’ll briefly talk about proctoring later in this article.

To cover other forms of cheating, remote proctoring is also needed. That doesn’t mean LockDown Browser won’t work for students taking exams at home, just that it’s not enough by itself for remote exams. A Screencap of the LockDown Browser Demo for Moodle
