edx-proctoring 2.5.0

Proctoring subsystem for Open edX

This is the exam proctoring subsystem for the Open edX platform.

Overview

Proctored exams are exams with time limits that learners complete while online proctoring software monitors their computers and behavior for activity that might be evidence of cheating. This Python library provides the proctoring implementation used by Open edX.

Documentation

For authoring documentation, see Including Proctored Exams In Your Course.

Installation

To install edx-proctoring:

mkvirtualenv edx-proctoring make install

To run the tests:

make test-all

For a full list of Make targets:

make help

Configuration

In order to use edx-proctoring, you must obtain an account (and secret configuration - see below) with SoftwareSecure, which provides the proctoring review services that edx-proctoring integrates with.

You will need to turn on the ENABLE_SPECIAL_EXAMS in lms.env.json and cms.env.json FEATURES dictionary:

"FEATURES": {
    :
    "ENABLE_SPECIAL_EXAMS": true,
    :
}

Also in your lms.env.json and cms.env.json file please add the following:

"PROCTORING_SETTINGS": {
    "LINK_URLS": {
        "contact_us": "{add link here}",
        "faq": "{add link here}",
        "online_proctoring_rules": "{add link here}",
        "tech_requirements": "{add link here}"
    }
},

In your lms.auth.json file, please add the following secure information:

"PROCTORING_BACKENDS": {
    "software_secure": {
        "crypto_key": "{add SoftwareSecure crypto key here}",
        "exam_register_endpoint": "{add endpoint to SoftwareSecure}",
        "exam_sponsor": "{add SoftwareSecure sponsor}",
        "organization": "{add SoftwareSecure organization}",
        "secret_key": "{add SoftwareSecure secret key}",
        "secret_key_id": "{add SoftwareSecure secret key id}",
        "software_download_url": "{add SoftwareSecure download url}"
    },
    'DEFAULT': 'software_secure'
},

You will need to restart services after these configuration changes for them to take effect.

Email Templates

edx-proctoring provides generic base email templates that are rendered and sent to learners based on changes to the status of a proctored exam attempt. They have been designed such that you may leverage Django template inheritance to customize their content to the proctoring backend. Because proctoring backend plugins are installed in edx-platform, you must create an overriding template in the edx-platform repository. The template path should be emails/proctoring/{backend}/{template_name}. Note that your template can either completely override the base template in edx-proctoring, or it can extend the base template in order to leverage the existing content of the blocks within the base template, particularly if you only need to change a portion of the template.

Debugging

To debug with PDB, run pytest with the -n0 flag. This restricts the number of processes in a way that is compatible with pytest

pytest -n0 [file-path]

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome.

Please read How To Contribute for details.

Even though they were written with edx-platform in mind, the guidelines should be followed for Open edX code in general.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [e-mail].

Getting Help

Have a question about this repository, or about Open edX in general? Please refer to this list of resources if you need any assistance.

Change Log

Unreleased

[2.5.0] - 2020-12-09

• Changed behavior of practice exam reset to create a new exam attempt instead of rolling back state of the current attempt.

• Added new proctoring info panel to expose onboarding exam status to learners

• Added option to reset a failed or pending onboarding exam.

[2.4.9] - 2020-11-17

• Fix unbound local variable issue in api.get_attempt_status_summary

• Added new action to student exam attempt PUT allowing users to reset a completed practice exam.

[2.4.8] - 2020-10-19

• Created a separate error message for inactive users. Refined the existing error message to only show for network error or service disruption.

[2.4.7] - 2020-10-06

• Removed the rpnowv4_flow waffle flag to cleanup code

For details of changes prior to this release, please see the GitHub commit history.