Safe Exam Browser is a webbrowser-environment to carry 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.

Features

  • Webbrowser-environment to carry out online-exams safely
  • Fullscreen or browser window mode (without any navigation elements)
  • Disables shortcuts and operating system functions like Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del / Cmd-Alt-Esc), program switcher (Alt-Tab, Win-Tab / Cmd-Tab), Print Screen / Screenshot etc. which should not be available during an exam
  • Prevents students from surfing the internet during an exam
  • Compatible with basically all web-based exam systems, additional integration with learning management systems Moodle, ILIAS and others
  • Possibility to permit controlled use of additional external applications
  • Current versions supports Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Mac OS X 10.7 up to macOS 10.13 High Sierra and iOS 9.3.5 to iOS 11.
  • SEB 2.x can be started or reconfigured for each exam just by clicking a special link in some regular web browser or in an e-mail
  • Detection if SEB is running on a virtual machine, monitoring which processes are permitted or prohibited to be running during the exam
  • Easy installation and deployment: Create .seb configuration files with which SEB can be configured/reconfigured after installation

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Categories

Security, Browsers, Exam

License

BSD License, GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2), Mozilla Public License 1.0 (MPL)

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User Reviews

  • Unable to use a custom mouse while using this thing, garbage.
  • This browser is just useless, can be patched too easly. Sometimes it freezes the system, and let's not talk about the fact that if the computer is installing a graphics driver in the background and the screen refreshes, you get the red screen asking for a password. I almost couldn't continue the test because of this. If a students wants to cheat, let them. They will face the consequencies themselves. Talking about the UI, it's pretty bad considering the standards of 2025, it should be more modern. Also SEB isn't so easy to set up and configure with moodle, sometimes teachers screw up and we get locked. Easy to use for students, a pain to set up. We can add even the cherry on top, they claim it's open source but they still include a closed source module (seb.dll) which is for the Browser Exam Key algorithm. The project is released with MPL license so they should release the source code for that module as well. Stay away from this.
  • Recommendable
  • let me play fc in 6.7 class ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿค–๐Ÿค– also ots Clanker i see you with the wind breaker ๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ’จ Made our school wifi so horrible that we can't play fc vor even ceheck our internet speed test in google nto allowing us to learn or our exams such a traitor ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Difficulty in downloading was inconvenient but functions well otherwise.
    2 users found this review helpful.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Mac, Windows

Intended Audience

Developers, Education, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

.NET/Mono, Cocoa (MacOS X), Web-based

Programming Language

C#, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C 2.0, Swift

Related Categories

C# Security Software, C# Browsers, C# Exam Software, C++ Security Software, C++ Browsers, C++ Exam Software, JavaScript Security Software, JavaScript Browsers, JavaScript Exam Software, Objective-C 2.0 Security Software, Objective-C 2.0 Browsers, Objective-C 2.0 Exam Software, Swift Security Software, Swift Browsers, Swift Exam Software

Registered

2008-07-10