This facilitates secure exams especially on unmanaged computers like students’ personal laptops/tablets. Thanks to an elaborate authentication feature, the exam system can verify that a particular, unaltered SEB version and the correct exam settings are used for an examination. Starting version 2.0, SEB offers an individual configuration per exam, which is protected by a strong encryption against manipulation. Safe Exam Browser enables secure exams on unmanaged computers like students’ personal laptops and tablets as well as in managed environments on all three platforms Windows, macOS and iOS. Some learning management systems (LMS) like Moodle, ILIAS, OpenOLAT and exam solutions as Inspera Assessment offer a quiz mode specifically compatible with SEB. Generally, SEB works with any web-based LMS and other kinds of web-based exam systems. SEB runs on a local computer and it is connected via the internet to a learning management system (LMS) or an e-assessment system.
It controls access to resources like system functions, other websites and applications and prevents unauthorized resources from being used during an exam.
The software turns any computer temporarily into a secure workstation. Safe Exam Browser is a web browser environment that carries out e-assessments safely.