Important Read Respondus LockDown can see screen recording

[fri12013]

hi guys just wanted to let you knew so that you don't caught red-handed

if want to do this bypass Your organization can enable screen recording and see you going into chatgt or what ever and you will be caught red-handed

do this if you are sure that they don,t record your screen or on face to face tests

here you can see https://support.respondus.com/hc/en-us/articles/17641623561371-How-does-the-screen-recording-option-in-Respondus-Monitor-work

[yoyomomo21]

is there a specific way to see if they are recording your screen? i think it says 'recording' at the top right for sure for the webcam, im not sure if thats also the case for screen recording

[fri12013]

yes it says recording but dosnot say what is being recorded idon,t knew if If they ware screen recording writeing something else then recording

[fri12013]

In the past, they used to write the thing that was being recorded, for example, they used to write it the top right (webcam recording)

[yoyomomo21]

I guess it's safe to assume, if it says recording while the webcam is not enabled then it's screen recording, but if it's recording with webcam then assume the worst

[Totsukawaii]

I doubt lockdown browser can record your desktop screen. I'm guessing the most it is doing is only recording the browser window in Lockdown Browser itself so even if you alt tab I don't think it will be able to see it. This is based on what I've gathered from trying to bypass the DRM feature which prevents screen capture of lockdown browser, though I can't prove this.

If you are interested in what LDB is actually sending you can use https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy to man in the middle the connection to the respondus server the recordings are sent to. the Domain is monitor.respondus... something. In my case, I can confirm only Webcam recordings are being sent to the server

[yoyomomo21]

iv emailed Respondus Support and here is what they said:

Please see https://support.respondus.com/hc/en-us/articles/17641623561371-How-does-the-screen-recording-option-in-Respondus-Monitor-work

Students using Macs or Chromebooks will need to be sure that the screen recording option is enabled for LockDown Browser, but there is no setting to specifically alert them when screen recording is enabled for a particular test.

then i asked "Alright so an any case, if the student does bypass it somehow, I would be able to see the whole screen and the way it was bypassed, correct?"

reply:

If the screen is being recorded, the instructor would be able to see the whole screen.

[Totsukawaii]

iv emailed Respondus Support and here is what they said:

Please see https://support.respondus.com/hc/en-us/articles/17641623561371-How-does-the-screen-recording-option-in-Respondus-Monitor-work

Students using Macs or Chromebooks will need to be sure that the screen recording option is enabled for LockDown Browser, but there is no setting to specifically alert them when screen recording is enabled for a particular test.

then i asked "Alright so an any case, if the student does bypass it somehow, I would be able to see the whole screen and the way it was bypassed, correct?"

reply:

If the screen is being recorded, the instructor would be able to see the whole screen.

Then again I doubt respondus support actually knows how the software works. You can see the cursor in the image in the article doesn't actually appear like how the cursor actually looks like. So it seems be be a virtual render of the cursor, which would align with my theory LDB doesn't actually capture the screen, and only captures the DRM protected content in LDB itself.

[fri12013]

Yes, i see that but you must bee Careful if you are copy and paste they will see that For Sure

[fri12013]

go to 50:30 here you can see it in video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i6jBzY8fFs

[fri12013]

I assume that if the organization does not instruct Mac users to give LDB permissions to screen record then they are not doing so because Mac owners must allow LDB to record their screen.