SEB lockdown on open access image

[MFGrayFox]

Hi,

I’m a system administrator at a university, and we’re currently evaluating the use of Safe Exam Browser (SEB) on our open-access computers. I’m trying to understand the best way to block or control SEB configuration files so that users can’t lock down a machine themselves. We’ve enabled SEB through Moodle for teachers, and that will be the supported method for generating exam configuration files. However, we’re concerned that students could still create their own configs since SEB is installed on our open-access machines.

At the moment, I’m looking at restricting access to the SEB Configuration Tool via Group Policy, as well as tightening permissions on the local folder where SEB stores its .seb files.

Is there an official supported method to use, or do other institutions have any experience with this?

Thanks in advance.

[dbuechel]

Depending on the configuration of your systems, maybe setting a local configuration file with a strong password could be enough. Please refer to our documentation for more information: https://safeexambrowser.org/windows/win_usermanual_en.html#ConfigFilePane.

But apart from that unfortunately not, you'd need to do this via Group Policy as you mentioned above. Or you could create a custom build of SEB without the configuration tool, but that would obviously be quite a bit of work.

[MFGrayFox]

Thank you for your reply. I'll continue to explore the Group Policy process.