Verify the integrity of a Safe Exam Browser installation using SEB Verificator tool

Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is one of the most secure browser which is used by many education institutes to carry out e-assessments safely. It allows you to turn any workstation into a secure workstation for assessment. Recently, the SEB team has released the first version of the SEB Verificator tool which is very interesting for all educators. In this post, we will understand its purpose and how it can be used.

Safe Exam Browser Verificator tool is a standalone tool which can be used to manually verify the integrity of a Safe Exam Browser installation on Windows. This can be very handy if you are allowing the students to BYOD exams where students can have manipulated version of Safe Exam Browsers on their device.

You can download the SEB verificator tool from the official GitHub repository here. Once downloaded you can either use the verificator tool on USB flash drive and start it from there on the exam device under your supervision. Alternatively you could make the tool downloadable on a website in your control and ask the candidate to download and execute the SEB Verificator under your supervision.

The SEB Verificator application comes with the references for all the official release versions since SEB 3.2.0 preloaded. So, once it detects at least one valid reference. After the verification procedure has finished, the status of all elements in the local installation will be displayed in the user interface.

Are you using Safe Exam Browser for conducting your online assessments? How you are controlling the students devices in BYOD Exams? Do let us know in the comments section below.