Honorlock: Instructions for Collin Faculty
Collin College contracted with Honorlock to provide proctoring for proctored exams.
Honorlock is available for the following Collin College credit courses:
- Fully Online Courses
- Live (Synchronous) Online Courses
Use the decision tree to determine your course delivery
Honorlock is an online proctoring solution offered by Collin College. For the current semester(s), Collin College will be covering the cost of Honorlock and students will not be responsible for any fees.
Exam sessions are recorded via webcam, allowing students to test at their convenience. Exam incidents will be reported back to faculty via Honorlock in Canvas.
Honorlock: Enabling it, Implementing it, & Considerations
(Enabling Honorlock in an Exam PDF)
Enable Honorlock in Your Canvas Course Menu:
- Enable the Honorlock course menu by going to Settings > Navigation.
- Locate the "Honorlock" link in the list.
- Click on the three vertical dots next to "Honorlock" and click "Enable".
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the "Save" button.
- Next, enable your exam:
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Canvas Quiz/Exam:
- Click on 'Honorlock' in the course menu (after you have enabled Honorlock).
- Locate the quiz for which you would like to configure Honorlock and click the 'Enable' button to the far right of the quiz name.
- In the Proctoring Settings interface which appears, choose appropriate settings. For more information click on Explanation of Proctoring Options.
- Click the 'Enable' button at the bottom of the page. (Note: You can return to the Proctoring Settings page for a specific quiz by clicking on the "Settings" button to the far right of the quiz name.)
- Students will access Honorlock enabled quizzes wherever they are linked within Canvas (quizzes, assignments, modules, etc.), but may also access them through the Honorlock link (which may be necessary for third-party exams and to link to support prior to exams).
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Third-Party (Publisher) Quiz/Exam:
- After enabling Honorlock in your Canvas course, click the link below for written directions on enabling a third-party exam.
- Create a Third-Party Exam
- If you have questions about enabling a third-party exam, please use Honorlock's Chat Support or contact your publisher's representative.
Honorlock Support: Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
- Enable Honorlock in your Canvas course using the directions above.
- Click the Honorlock menu item in your course navigation.
- Look for the Chat icon in the top right title area and click the Chat button.
Honorlock AI Policy Statement for Educators
AI tools can help improve teaching and learning, but some nstructors have concerns about how they’re used. Honorlock has developed a prewritten AI Policy Statement to set expectations for acceptable use of AI tools in your courses.You can copy and paste from the template to customzie as needed for your syllabi.
AI Policy Statement for Educators from Honorlock
Honorlock Training Webinars
Honorlock offers several webinars for using Honorlock in Canvas and to proctor 3rd party exams. You can view and register for a workshop on their Upcoming Honolock Webinars page.
Honorlock Faculty Help Pages (PDFs):
- Upload Questions (Universal)
- Bypass Pin
- How to Create Practice Exam
- Create a Third-Party Exam
- Voice Detection
- How to View Honorlock Results
- Honorlock Recommended Syllabus Language
- Explanation of Proctoring Options
- BrowserGuard & Whitelisting
- Creating, Managing and Applying Exam Profiles
- Canvas Course Copy
- Enabling Honorlock in an Exam
Information to Provide Students:
- Student Proctored Exam Information Page
- Collin College Online Exam Procedures
- ADA - Student Guide - Getting Started with Honorlock PDF
- Honorlock Student Privacy
- Student Privacy Policy on Sensitive Information
- Collin College Student Handbook, which outline the Collin College Code of Conduct.
Honorlock Updates
Version 10.8.0 (Web App) & Version 6.34.0 (Extension) June 26, 2024
- Exam Re-entry on Canvas: Resolved an issue where test takers could click the back button and re-enter an exam without Honorlock successfully relaunching.
- Camera Window Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where closing the Honorlock camera window while viewing the Hotkey detection blurred screen would result in the test taker being unable to relaunch their exam.
- Multiple Password Fields: Addressed a bug for 3rd party exams that have multiple password fields.
- Speech Detection During Proctoring: Speech detection flags will no longer be triggered while an Honorlock proctor is in the middle of a Live Pop-in.
- Hotkey Detection on 3rd Party Exams: Fixed an issue where Hotkey Detection was not functioning on many 3rd party exams. Note: Some compatibility issues may still exist due to the varied page designs across different platforms.
- Exam Results Page: Corrected the filter checkboxes on the exam results page to ensure they are all the same size and style.
Version 10.7.0 (Web App) + Version 6.33.0 (Extension) June 12, 2024
- Revamped email management for recommended sessions. When enabling Honorlock, adding email addresses to receive Recommended Session notifications is now a simpler process, supporting free text insertion.
- Introducing a new Side Panel for a better in-exam experience. Exam Guidelines can now be viewed using a side panel that does not overlay on top of exam content. The side panel can be left open throughout an exam, providing students with better visibility of exam guidelines when needed. Requires new chrome permission: sidePanel
- Fixed an issue where the icon to email test takers from the proctoring results page was not displaying for native D2L exams.
- Fixed broken knowledge base links for Moodle users
- Updated Mobile Detection flag to reduce false positives involving hands
- Exam Termination improvements: Now counting individual Low, Med, High proctor added indicators instead of grouping them under ‘has-proctor-actions’. Exam Termination UI will now be prioritized over any type of pop-ins.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 10.6.2 (Web App) June 3, 2024
- Adding additional subscription data to our application for more accurate reporting: Segment information, Price Dimensions, Segment Qty, Segment Start and End, List Price, Customer Price.
Version 10.6.1 (Web App) May 29, 2024
- Fixing an issue where non-LPI sessions were being fed into the Live viewer
- Fixing an issue in Hub where the Reviewed by Proctor number is not accurately reflecting the sessions being viewed by a proctor. The count currently includes all sessions that got a LPI request. We are removing that to only include sessions that are seen by a proctor.
- Fixing an issue in Hub where “Proctor Pop-in occurred” was not counting Soft Pop-ins.
Version 10.3.0 (Web App) + Version 6.29.0 (Extension) April 24, 2024
- Hotkey Detection (Beta) bug fixes and improvements. Fixed an issue where double flagging was occurring.
- Fixed a bug where certain Proctor added indicators were not timestamped properly.
- UI updates to the Minimum System Requirements page.
- Corrected an inconsistency where exam passwords were not always being set to the appropriate formate: HL_NO_EDIT_########
- Improved download functionality when utilizing HTML format. Longer sessions are now able to be downloaded successfully.
Version 10.2.1 (Web App) April 18, 2024
- Fixed an issue where some students on Canvas were unable to complete the payment process for an exam
- Fixed a system check bug for organizations utilizing Honorlock's Partner API
