Instructors use a number of strategies for ensuring academic integrity in courses, whether in-person or online, and a variety of technologies may be applied. This course may use LockDown Browser with Monitor for online exams and assessments. While there is no cost to you to use the software, you are required to have a webcam, which may be built into your computer or may be an external camera. Use a Mac or PC computer; Chromebooks are not compatible. Watch this short video to get a basic understanding of LockDown Browser and the Monitor webcam feature.
During remote course exams or assessments, your participation may be video-recorded with your webcam using Respondus Monitor. Respondus Monitor is a companion product for LockDown Browser that enables students to record themselves with a webcam and microphone during an online exam. These video recordings may be submitted to Student Accountability & Conflict Resolution as evidence in suspected cases of violations of the Code of Student Academic Integrity.
The Respondus system allows access to your webcam only while the exam/assessment is in progress. UNC Charlotte and its faculty do not have access to your webcam at any point outside of the assessment setting. You are responsible for obtaining an external webcam with microphone if no functioning built-in camera is available on your device. Students may borrow laptops and webcams from Atkins Library.
Download and install LockDown Browser to your Mac or PC computer.
For information about checking LockDown Browser and webcam setup, test-taking guidelines, webcam video tips, as well as security and privacy information, please review Online Testing Guidance from the Center for Academic Excellence.
If you are not comfortable being recorded or monitored through a webcam during an assessment, you may request an alternative monitoring method prior to the scheduled assessment, such as using a testing center on campus, giving sufficient time for me to arrange alternate methods of proctoring the assessment. Students with academic accommodations may use the Disability Services testing center.