YuJa Verity allows instructors to create and administer proctored assessments to test-takers, thereby safeguarding the integrity of assessments taken in their Learning Management System. To enable Verity for tests in Blackboard Original, follow the steps outlined below.
Creating a Proctored Test
To enable Verity, you must first create a test in Blackboard. Once you've created the test, you must authenticate yourself, before setting up a proctored assessment.
- Log in to Blackboard as an instructor and navigate to the course where the test is located.
- Once you have located your test, ensure that Edit Mode is enabled from the top-right corner.
- Next, click the drop-down arrow next to the test and select Edit the Test Options.
- Scroll down to YuJa Verity Test Proctoring Platform, select the Checkbox, and click Configure Settings.
- Click Edit to access proctor settings.
- Select your desired proctoring method and click Next to continue.
- Automated Proctoring (No Live): Test-takers will not be monitored during their assessment.
- Live Proctors: Proctors will monitor the test-takers during a scheduled proctoring session.
- Live Check-In: Proctors can join and view a test-taker's environment when issues are flagged.
- (Optional) If Live Proctoring is selected, click + Add Session and fill in the following information for your live assessment:
- Name: Add a name for the session.
- Date and Time: Select the date and time the quiz will be available and when it will end.
- Duration: Select how much time test-takers will have to complete the quiz after they join.
- Capacity: Choose how many test-takers can register for this session.
- Select Proctor: Choose a user in the course with at least instructor-level access to proctor the live quiz. Alternatively, select Proctoring Group if your institution is partnered with Verity’s test proctoring groups.
- Registration Window: (Optional) Set the date and time for how long the registration period of the session will be.
- Proctoring Guidelines: (Optional) Add a note for the proctor explaining the proctoring details or guidelines.
- (Optional) After creating all live sessions, click Next.
Note: If Automated Proctoring (Not Live) or Live Check-in is selected, you don't need to add a live session. - Select the platform you'd like to enable and click Next.
- Browser Extension: Offers standard proctoring features through the Verity Browser Extension within compatible browsers.
- Desktop Lockdown App: Offers additional security features that can be applied to safeguard the integrity of quizzes.
- Mobile Lockdown App: If selected, only standard proctoring features will be available to allow assessments to be taken on the Mobile Lockdown App.
- Select which configurations you would like enabled and click Next to continue.
Note: Learn more about Verity's configurations. - (Optional) Set up accommodations to allow specific test-takers to take the assessment without being proctored or with a different proctoring profile.
- Click Next.
- (Optional) If you want to save these proctoring configurations for the future assessments, click Save as Profile.
- Review your settings and click Confirm.
If you created a Live Proctor quiz, test-takers must register for a session. Once quizzes are completed, you can review them by accessing the Verity Results table.