YuJa Verity allows instructors to create and administer proctored assessments to students, 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.
Setting Up a Proctored Test
To enable Verity, you must first create a test in Blackboard. Once you've created the test, please authenticate yourself, and follow the steps below.
- 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.
- If Live Proctors was NOT selected, please skip to step 9. Otherwise, click Add Session and fill in the following information for your live quiz:
- 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, you may select Proctoring Group if your institution is partnered with Verity’s test proctoring groups.
- Create any additional sessions for the live quiz by repeating step 7, and then click Next.
- 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. For more information on Verity's configurations, please refer to our guide on YuJa Verity's Quiz Restrictions.
- If necessary, you can allow individual students to take the assessment without being proctored by selecting the Plus icon next to their name. Then click Next to continue.
Note: You can choose to apply a specific proctoring profile to exempted students by selecting the three vertical dots and clicking Apply 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.
Note: If you'd like to save these settings for future assessments, click Save as Profile.