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A Guide to Using Honorlock with Blended Teaching Quizzes

How to use Honorlock with your Blended Teaching quizzes.

You can proctor a Blended Teaching quiz with Honorlock in Canvas or Blackboard. You turn on proctoring for the quiz in your Control Center, then register a matching third-party exam in Honorlock inside your LMS. Students launch Honorlock first, and Honorlock fills in the quiz password for them.

Using Respondus instead? See Setting Up Respondus with Blended Teaching Quizzes in Canvas. For which tool works in which LMS, see A Guide to Proctoring Blended Teaching Quizzes: Options for Every LMS.

Important: Honorlock settings must be configured in your LMS at least 48 hours before the quiz start date and time. Using Blackboard? Honorlock with Blended Teaching quizzes in Blackboard is a newer setup, so please loop in our support team the first time you set it up and we will check it with you.

In this guide:

  1. Part 1: Turn on proctoring in your Control Center

  2. Part 2: Set up Honorlock in your LMS

  3. Part 3: How students start a proctored quiz

  4. Troubleshooting

Part 1: Turn on proctoring in your Control Center

First, turn on proctoring for the quiz in Blended Teaching.

  1. Sign in to your Control Center at https://educators.blended-teaching.com, choose your course, and open the quiz from Assessments.

  2. Select the quiz's Setup tab.

  3. In the Rules section, go to the Proctoring card:

    • Select the checkbox to turn on proctoring.

    • Select Honorlock.

    • A password is generated for the quiz. It must meet the requirements shown on the card. You will need it in Part 2.

    • Select Save setup.

Keep the password private. Students never need it, because Honorlock fills it in for them.

Part 2: Set up Honorlock in your LMS

Next, create a matching third-party exam in your LMS. The steps below use the general Honorlock interface, which is very similar in Canvas and Blackboard.

1. Register a third-party exam

  • In your LMS course, open the Honorlock tool.

  • Click Register Third Party Exam. It may also be under the blue ... menu.

2. Enter exam settings

Enter the quiz details. They must match what is in your Control Center.

  • Exam Name: use exactly the same name as your quiz in Blended Teaching.

  • Exam Start and Exam End: enter the same start and end dates and times you set for the quiz.

    • Note: enter the quiz End Date, not the Due Date.

  • Exam Password: enter the password from the quiz's Proctoring card (Part 1).

  • Exam Platform: type Blended Teaching.

  • Exam URL/Link: you have two options, below.

Option 1: direct assignment link (recommended). In your LMS, find the assignment link for the Blended Teaching quiz. Right-click it, select Copy link address, and paste it into this field. This gives students the most direct path.

In Canvas, always make sure the assignment is set to Load this tool in a new tab.

Option 2: student portal link. If you do not use direct assignment links in your LMS, use the student portal link: https://library.blended-teaching.com

3. Select proctoring settings

Choose the security settings you need. Select a box to turn a setting on; a blue checkmark appears.

  • Record Webcam, Record Screen, Record Web Traffic: the standard recording options.

  • Student Photo, Student ID, Room Scan: checks before the exam starts.

  • Browser Guard: locks down the student's browser so they cannot go to other sites.

  • The allowed URLs list: use it if students need a specific website during the exam. Be as specific as possible with the URL, and give students the link in the quiz instructions.

4. Select student guidelines

Choose what students may use during the exam (for example, scratch paper, notes or restroom breaks). Students see these guidelines before they begin.

  • Additional Instructions: use this to explain how students reach the quiz, for example: "After starting the proctoring session, open the quiz link in your course to begin your attempt."

5. Accommodations (optional)

Honorlock's Accommodations field holds notes for proctors and support staff only. It does not change a student's dates, time limit or attempts.

Give extra time, extra attempts or later dates in Blended Teaching instead. See Making Accommodations: Extra Time, Attempts & Extensions.

6. Set exam visibility

So students cannot see the exam in Honorlock outside its window, select No, use the dates on the exam to determine student view. This follows the Exam Start and Exam End you entered.

7. Save your setup

Click Save to finish creating the Honorlock exam. Your quiz is now set up with Honorlock. If you have any questions, contact our support team.

Part 3: How students start a proctored quiz

Honorlock's student launch guide describes this sequence in Canvas:

  1. The student opens Honorlock in the course and launches the registered exam, then completes the authentication and screen-sharing steps.

  2. Following Honorlock's directions, they open the Blended Teaching quiz through the course, keeping the Honorlock session running.

  3. When the quiz's password field appears, they follow Honorlock's prompt, including I Have Found My Exam and Unlock assessment, to fill in the password, then submit it to start the quiz. Older Honorlock versions may word this differently.

If a student reaches the password field without launching Honorlock, or Honorlock cannot launch or fill in the password, contact Honorlock support. Do not give the student the proctoring password, remove it, or turn off proctoring to get around the problem.

Troubleshooting

I don't see Honorlock on one of my exams

There are two common reasons:

  1. The quiz information does not match.

  2. You have used all your attempts.

1. The quiz information does not match

Honorlock needs the exam information to match the quiz in Blended Teaching exactly. Check every field in step 2, Enter exam settings, above.

2. You have used all your attempts

Honorlock may be set up correctly, but you are not asked for the Honorlock password when previewing if you have already used all the allowed attempts.

Students go through the Honorlock password step for every attempt. Once all allowed attempts are used, the password is no longer required, and students can open the assessment only to review their results once they are released. Results stay hidden until the release date and time you set in Blended Teaching. To learn more, see Grades & Results Feedback Settings for Assessments.

Note for instructors: the same rules apply when you preview an exam. Opening and starting an exam as an instructor counts as an attempt, so once you have used all allowed attempts you are no longer asked for the Honorlock password. This only affects your account. Students are still asked for it as long as they have attempts left.

A student doesn't see the quiz on their Honorlock page

The most common cause is a mismatch between the dates in Honorlock and the dates in Blended Teaching. Check step 2, Enter exam settings, above.

Use the End Date, not the Due Date. If Honorlock is set up with the Due Date, proctoring ends when that date passes, even if the quiz is still open in Blended Teaching for late submissions.

How the dates work:

  • Honorlock's Exam Start and Exam End control when proctoring is available.

  • The quiz's dates on its Setup tab control when the quiz itself is available.

For a student to take the quiz, both must be open during the same date and time window. If they don't line up, students won't see the quiz on their Honorlock page. This most often happens when the quiz is open in Blended Teaching but the Honorlock dates have not started yet or have already ended.

Changing the Honorlock exam window affects everyone using that registration. For a makeup exam for one student after the window has closed, contact our support team so we can check the setup with your Honorlock administrator.

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