configuration failed with respondus lockdown browser update

23:08 University of Twente and Respondus notified.

To drive the point home, another friend demonstrated you could run Respndus Lockdown Browser in a virtual machine. I’ve become convinced Respondus is selling snake oil, pure snake oil. I literally copied some code for making a transparent always-on-top window in Java, added a Thread.sleep (so it would open after I started Respondus) and I was in business.Ī little more copy-pasting and a dozen lines of Swing and I had a transparent WolframAplha client sitting on top of my lockdown browser.

This got me thinking if you could show other things on top of Respondus Lockdown Browser. Surely enough, I could easily reproduce this with a few lines of JS using the notification API. It also forces you to shut down software such as Skype and Steam.Īfter the test, a friend mentioned he had received a notification from WhatsApp web during the test. It does this by minimizing all applications, disabling a bunch of things and maximizing itself. This browser is supposed to stop students from using their laptops for other things besides the test. At the University of Twente there was a pilot program for digital testing using Pearson MyLabsPlus in the Respondus Lockdown Browser.

Configuration failed with respondus lockdown browser update