SEB Safe Exam Browser For Mac

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Safe Exam Browser is a very easy to use webbrowser-environment that provides support for carrying out online-exams safely.

The software changes any computer into a secure workstation. It regulates the access to any utilities and prevents students from using unauthorised resources.

SEB disables the OS X Dock, the process switcher (cmd+Tab/cmd+Shift+Tab), menu bar, the Force Quit window (cmd+opt+Esc), hiding the application, printing and Exposé. It can also be set whether users can quit SEB and if it is required to enter a quit password to do so.

In the browser window there is no right mouse (or ctrl-) click popup window available, links requesting to be opened in a separate window are opened in the single SEB web browser window instead. Besides that, the browser is supporting Quicktime, Java and Flash content (as long as the required Flash plugin is installed on the system).

SEB MacOSX is based on the WebKit browser engine, which is also used by Safari, Apple Mail and many open source browsers like Google Chrome (in contrast to the Mozilla Firefox/XULRunner/Gecko engine used by SEB for Windows).

There are some small differences and issues regarding rendering of web pages and some content in Ilias and Moodle, so you should check all functionality of your quiz in SEB Mac OS X before using it in exams. SEB uses a private copy of the WebKit framewok, so Apple updates of Safari don't affect the compatibility of SEB with existing quizzes.

What's new in SEB Safe Exam Browser 2.1.2:

Fixes a bug when a browser window wasn’t scaled correctly to fit the screen (it was placed in the lower left screen corner, mainly off-screen) when only one screen is connected and the „useBuiltin“ setting is false.
Fixes a bug when the main browser window stayed open when starting SEB by opening a config file. The window couldn’t be manually closed and stayed in the foreground (as a „zombie“ window, caused by a timing problem when the window gets the close command while it’s still being opened).
To solve the latter problem and improve usability generally, when starting SEB by opening a .seb config file or a seb(s):// link, the start URL from persistent settings of the SEB client isn't opened first anymore, instead the new settings are directly applied. In case loading or decrypting these settings isn’t successful (load error, canceled by the user, wrong decryption credentials etc.), SEB quits instead of continuing with the persistent client settings.
Fixed visible screen area was being wrong calculated, not considering correctly if the SEB dock was visible on that screen. This also caused the temporary browser window for authentication not to be moved up when the user moved it underneath the SEB dock.

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