Security measures in Brightspace to prevent cheating?

Yildiz.N.829

Are there any settings or features in Brightspace that can help prevent or limit copy-and-paste actions during quizzes (such as disabling right-click etc)? Thanks!

Aasim.Y.704

Hi @Yildiz.N.829,

Thanks so much for reaching out to us here at the Brightspace Community.

D2L takes academic integrity very seriously. Within the Quizzes tool, we provide several options to help reduce the possibility of cheating. However, different scenarios (in-person, fully remote, high-stakes testing, etc.) require different approaches, and no single option is likely to prevent all forms of academic misconduct.

The following options are available:

• Tip: When administering quizzes in person, provide the password only after learners have put away their personal devices to reduce the risk of sharing it.
• IP Restrictions – Allows you to restrict quiz access to specific IP address ranges.
• Question Pools – Ensures each learner receives a different set of questions by drawing randomly from a larger pool.
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• Prevent Going Back to Previous Pages – Prevents learners from navigating back to earlier pages of the quiz.
• Randomize Answer Options – Randomizes the order of answer choices for multiple-choice and multi-select questions.
• Integrations – Third-party tools like Respondus, Proctorio, and Integrity Advocate provide additional proctoring and academic integrity functionalities.

Additionally, you can use the following features to investigate suspicious or concerning quiz activity:

• The Attempt Logs page provides detailed information about events during a quiz attempt, including quiz entry and re-entry times, and quiz completion. Where possible, IP addresses are logged for each event, which can help identify where the activity occurred. Multiple IP addresses within a single quiz attempt could be considered suspicious.
• When the d2l.Tools.Quizzes.ShowSessionId (OrgUnit) configuration variable is enabled, you can use the Session ID column to identify when learners have multiple sessions within a quiz attempt.
• Use the IP Address column to identify when learners have changed IP Addresses during a quiz attempt. This feature lets you determine whether different sessions were used for various quiz events.
  • Note: When reviewing a Quiz Attempt Log, we recommend using caution before concluding that cheating has occurred based solely on the presence of multiple IP addresses or Session IDs. There are valid reasons these may appear. This information is intended to support your investigation and should be evaluated in context, alongside other relevant data.

For gathering additional information from learners during a quiz or for implementing an "Honesty Code" question at the start, you can also use zero-point questions.