Remote Proctoring and Locked Web Browser Policy and Requirements

As part of an effort to use available technology to improve your learning experience by providing convenience, security, and cost-effective education, Rasmussen University requires students to use a locked web browser to enable remote proctoring in some or all courses within its academic programs. The use of locked web browser will require individual student activity to be recorded, both audibly and visually, during certain assessment sessions. Biometric identifiers and information, which include but are not limited to voiceprints and facial geometry scans, may be collected and stored for the purpose of identifying and monitoring students. Other data related to individual student activity during assessment sessions may also be recorded by the locked web browser, including, without limitation, the time taken by a student to answer specific inquiries on an assessment. The locked web browser may analyze the recordings through automated processes to generate additional data derived from the recordings, with the additional data being associated with individual students for use by Rasmussen in evaluating the recordings. The additional data, as well as the original recordings, may be evaluated by Rasmussen employees, including instructors, to review, assess, and analyze student performance and conduct, among other things, for the purpose of improving educational processes for students, including investigating student conduct violations. Rasmussen works with the locked web browser vendor to help ensure privacy regarding the recordings and to comply with federal regulations as to any information or data (including any of the video or audio recordings). Biometric identifiers and information Rasmussen collects from the locked web browser will be destroyed after the initial purpose for collecting or obtaining such identifiers or information has been satisfied or within three years from the student’s last interaction with the University.

The locked web browser must be downloaded and installed for use on the student’s computer. Therefore, students must possess or have access to a computer that meets the Technical Requirements Policy’s Basic Computer Requirements. Immediately before and during an assessment, the use of a webcam and microphone will be necessary. The webcam will be used to record the assessment and will capture the student’s image, proof of federal or state photo identification, and an environmental scan of assessment surroundings. The microphone will be used to record the student’s voice and any surrounding noises during the assessment.

Students are responsible for their conduct and activities arising during use of locked web browser and for any information or data provided to or through the locked web browser. Rasmussen is not responsible for, nor liable for, any mistakes, inaccuracies, lack of usefulness, defamation, omissions, falsehood, obscenity, or otherwise offensive material in any of the information or data provided through use of the locked web browser by users. Rasmussen does not, and has no obligation to, monitor, pre-screen, or pre-approve information or data, but Rasmussen shall nonetheless have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion, to refuse, delete, or move any information or data that is available via the locked web browser, for any reason, including a violation of any policy.

Students agree that they will not infringe the intellectual property rights of others during use of the locked web browser. Students acknowledge that exams, assessments, and other materials of Rasmussen University are protected intellectual property and may not be copied or shared. Students also agree that Rasmussen is not responsible for protecting any intellectual property rights they, or another party, may assert in any information or data provided to the locked web browser.