Honorlock Resources

Honorlock is an online proctoring tool available to FCC faculty to enable on tests at no cost to the student.  The College has purchased a premium version of this service with features that prevent and detect academic dishonesty and deter students from academic misconduct while testing such as:

1. Live Pop-In - Real-time, on-demand, human assistance during exams to support students and reduce exam anxiety. 
2. Search & Destroy - Removes exam content that has been leaked on 3rd party websites like Chegg and CourseHero.  
3. Patent Multi-Device Detection - Honorlock is the only solution that can detect the use of secondary devices used to access answers to exam questions.

Honorlock verifies the identity of students and monitors them as they test remotely. The student's webcam records HD video of the student’s face and testing environment. The student’s screen is also recorded to track activity during the exam even if it is on a secondary device! Certain student behaviors will raise flags during the testing session, ratings will appear on the flags (low, medium, high, and Pop-In), and timestamps are provided for faculty review.

Honorlock provides a balance between academic integrity and student access.  It allows for increased engagement of diverse student populations by providing a means for taking tests remotely while upholding high academic integrity standards.  Customizable proctoring settings also support flex models for teaching, students with testing accommodations, and allow for secure exam delivery. 

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Be sure to make your expectations clear to students who are testing remotely!

When using Honorlock, there are four main proctoring components to consider applying to your tests:

1. Proctoring Settings allow faculty to customize their proctoring levels to reduce over-flagging behaviors detected by the proctor.

2. Student Guidelines inform students of what is allowed and not allowed during the testing session.

3. Accommodations for students with testing accommodations, as indicated on their Student Success Plans. You may also notate the names of students whose valid photo ID does not match the name listed in Blackboard who may need manual ID verification by the Honorlock proctor.

4. Exam visibility ensures Honorlock always uses the dates on the exam to determine when students can see it in Blackboard when this option has "No" selected (keep it this way).

Scrub through the Demo to find the information you need!

01:43 Video Start, Add Honorlock LTI to Course
05:14 Enable Exam
05:54 Descriptions of Honorlock Proctoring Settings
15:08 Allowing Site URLs (Proctoring Settings)
16:41 Adding Practice Exam to Course
17:48 Student Guidelines
23:50 Accommodations
24:50 Exam Visibility
25:53 Exam Profiles Option (save proctor settings on future exams)
27:12 Questions
32:57 Honorlock Session Viewer Overview
34:57 Viewing a Single Session
36:43 Reviewing Flags
40:10 Summary Report

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Student Incident Behavior Report Form is the preferred method for reporting student misconduct.

During the faculty review of testing sessions, use the Summary Report feature in Honorlock to identify students with high- and Proctor Pop-In -level flags.  Review the webcam and screen recordings to determine whether an academic violation or student misconduct action has occurred.  

Use the Student Incident Behavior Report Form to document or report incidents:

• Document the nature of the report as "Academic Integrity Violation."
• Include Date and Time of Incident, Location (if known, otherwise "Remote" is sufficient), and name involved parties.
• Under Code of Conduct, check box "Facilitation of Violation of Academic Integrity," and check remaining boxes, as appropriate.
• Submit a factual description of the incident and attach any screenshots, videos, or other evidence that support the claim (use Honorlock's Exam Session viewer to gather this information).

FCC selected Honorlock, among many other remote/online proctoring vendor options, when careful consideration to student privacy.  Honorlock’s student privacy statement is easy to find online as well as curated into the Honorlock Guide for easy review. 

Honorlock is only used through the Chrome extension and it does not abuse or leverage data to sell to companies.  There is an indicator on the Honorlock Chrome extension that shows when it is monitoring which is only done during the exam. 

Honorlock provides great suggestions on easy, proactive strategies that students can do for their own peace of mind:

1. Installing the extension for the exam, and uninstalling after (it takes less than 30 seconds which is another reason we selected this vendor, it’s basically out of the box ready to use).
2. Create a profile in Google Chrome that is only used for testing so that auto-saved data is never available to Honorlock, ever.