Gameplan Secure Exam Environment (Optional)

1. When it’s needed

An Exam Session can be set to require Gameplan Secure Exam Environment, Microsoft Take a Test or both. Use it where your state requires computer lockout features for certification exams. Exam Sessions that don’t require a lockdown environment run in an ordinary browser, still supervised by a Proctor. In an Exam Session that requires a lockdown environment, Candidates can only start the exam through the configured environments.

2. What it locks down

While Gameplan Secure Exam Environment runs:

• The exam fills the screen, and Candidates can’t switch to other apps or use system shortcuts.

• Apps for screen capture, recording, remote control, screen sharing and messaging are closed.

• Screenshots and screen recordings of the exam are blocked.

• Only the sign-in and the pages needed to take the exam can be opened. Other websites are blocked.

• Copy and paste only work inside the exam. The clipboard is cleared when it starts.

• Printing and saving are turned off.

• Extra displays are blacked out.

• It won’t run in a virtual machine or a Remote Desktop session.

Gameplan Secure Exam Environment locks down the computer, not the room. Proctors still make sure Candidates don’t use phones, notes or other materials during the exam.

3. Install it on your testing computers

Before exam day, have your IT team install Gameplan Secure Exam Environment on the computers Candidates will use. It runs on:

• Windows 10 (version 2004 or later) or Windows 11

• macOS 13 or later

Chromebooks and iPads aren’t supported yet.

IT can deploy it to managed computers with the tools they already use, such as Intune, SCCM or Group Policy on Windows, and Jamf, Mosyle, Kandji or Intune on Mac.

Make sure your network and web filter let the testing computers reach Gameplan (*.gameplan.com) and your Candidates’ sign-in provider.

4. Signing in

Candidates sign in to Gameplan inside Gameplan Secure Exam Environment with their email and password, or with their school identity (i.e. Google, Clever, ClassLink, Edlink etc). Candidates sign in each time they open it, and nothing is kept for the next Candidate on a shared computer.

5. On exam day

Candidates open Gameplan Secure Exam Environment on their testing computer. It opens Gameplan full screen, where they sign in, enter the Exam Session Code and choose a voucher as usual. To save time, a Proctor can open Gameplan Secure Exam Environment on each testing computer before Candidates arrive.

If Gameplan Secure Exam Environment closes during the exam, for example because the computer restarts, the Candidate opens it again and reconnects with a reconnection code from the Proctor.

When Candidates have submitted their exam, they close Gameplan Secure Exam Environment and the computer goes back to normal.

6. Assistive technology

Screen readers and the operating system’s zoom and magnifier keep working in Gameplan Secure Exam Environment. Check that each Candidate’s assistive technology works on their testing computer before exam day. If it doesn’t, contact Gameplan Support so we can fix it. Until then, the Candidate can take the exam in an Exam Session that doesn’t require Gameplan Secure Exam Environment.