How to do I enable lockdown settings?

Learn how to improve testing integrity by locking down your students' browsers.

On any Derivita assignment, you can turn on lockdown settings in order to

  • Prevent copying and pasting
  • Keep students from looking at other pages
  • Give students access to an on-screen calculator

and more.

Heads up: there are stricter system requirements for assignments that use lockdown.

Please use the following article to make sure that students will be able to use lockdown:

Requirements for Proctorio lockdown | Derivita Support Center

We recommend giving a practice test before using Proctorio on a real exam, so you and your students can get the extension up and running and get familiar with the settings.

Turning on lockdown

  1. Open the assignment, then click the pencil icon to edit it:Screenshot 2025-05-06 10.26.16
  2. Scroll down to Focus Controls and select Proctorio:Screenshot 2025-05-06 10.29.57
  3. Choose the lockdown options. You can see a description of any option by hovering over itScreenshot 2025-05-06 10.38.35
  4. Click Save