Detecting interaction with bots and scripts

With Proctorio Lockdown Browser enabled, when a student tries to use an automated bot or script to launch an assessment without the Proctorio Lockdown Browser running, the attempt is closed and the score is recorded as a zero.

Here's what educators and students will see:

  EdgeEX Heritage Edgenuity
Educator

A red alert displays on the assessment in the course map.
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When grading the assessment, you will see an alert at the top-right side of the page. When you hover your mouse over the alert, it reads, "Cheating browser extension was detected. Assessment attempt was closed with a score of 0."
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In Heritage Edgenuity courses, you can review the Recent Actions report.

Search for the Automation Suspected action. 

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In the details, the following explanation displays: "An automated script attempted to launch this assessment without Proctorio Lockdown Browser running, so the attempt was closed."

Student

The student will see an alert stating "You must have Proctorio enabled in order to launch an assessment."

The student will see an alert stating "This attempt was submitted with a zero score because a script was detected running."