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From the [http://respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/index.shtml Product page]:
<em>LockDown Browser® is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard, ANGEL, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai. When students use LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading. Available for Windows, Mac and iOS[sic].</em>
=== <s> Features </s> Bugs ===
* Integrates with Blackboard, ANGEL, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai
by <em>engag[ing] in any activity that might be purposefully harmful to systems or to any information stored thereon...</em>, however
its use is not widespread enough for this to gain any note.
There is a further extension to Respondus LockDown, called Respondus Monitor
<ref>http://respondus.com/products/monitor/</ref> that allows the proctor to spy on users through their webcam.
==Running the Software==
===Virtual Machine (KVM)===
This refuses to run in a Virtual Machine. It may be possible to add the <code>-cpu kvm=off</code> flag to Qemu to prevent it from detecting a virtualized
environment, but this has not been tested to date.It may also be necessary to disable Virtio drivers and devices.
===Natively (Windows or OS X)===
To run on Windows, the software requires administrative privileges. Previous versions were shown to have used Internet Explorer with certain modifications
executed on the fly, to add the "Lock Down" features, however it currently appears to be a stand-alone browser with some resemblance to Google's Chrome. On both OS X and Windows, it is based off of the open-source Chromium<ref>http://respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/requirements.shtml</ref>, although previous OS X versions arebelieved to have piggybacked off of Safari features. On Windows, the running user must have administrative privileges to run the student edition, however administrative privileges are not necessary to run the browser on OS X.
==References==
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