Explore system requirements and recommended settings.
Prior to taking an exam, your students will need to download the Honorlock extension for Chrome. Honorlock provides a simple single-click test to verify requirements listed below are in place.
System requirements
- Operating System: Windows 10, MacOSX 10.13 and higher, ChromeOS
- Browser: Google Chrome (minimum version 84)
- Internet Speed: 1.5 Mbps download, 750 Kbps upload
Additional requirements
- a desktop or laptop (Mac, PC, or Chromebook),
- Honorlock is not supported on mobile devices.
- a webcam,
- a microphone,
- a quiet, private location, and
- the Honorlock extension.
Recommended settings
During your students' virtually proctored exam, the recommended settings block specific student actions and record student data. The specific data that is captured, analyzed, and stored by Honorlock. Recording starts as soon as the exam begins. Once the exam is submitted, the Honorlock extension is no longer active, meaning it is no longer recording and blocking actions. Recommended settings include:
- Record webcam - Record student's testing environment using webcam
- Record screen - Record student's screen during exam
- Record web traffic - Log student's activity during exam
- Student photo - capture student photo
- Student ID - capture ID photo
- Room scan - record a 360 degree environment scan
- Browser guard - limit browser activity to exam content only
In addition to the above, Honorlock records ICON information such as student name, course number, exam name, etc. Honorlock will alert the instructor to any student behaviors which point to academic dishonesty such as copy/paste into search engines, opening other documents or programs, moving face out of view of webcam, other people in the testing area, talking, use of cell phones, and more.
DOE Exams
For questions about Honorlock, call 319-384-4800 or email doe-exams@uiowa.edu.