Making adjustments to quiz settings to allow for required accommodations such as additional attempts or extra time should be done after receiving a Letter of Accommodation from the Adptive Services. Usually, the accommodation is for additional time on quizzes, but can also include other accommodations such as reading software. Read&Write for Google Chrome™ is a text-to-speech browser extension that can read aloud on-screen text and for a student to use this an adjustment is needed within the Proctorio settings. To allow reading software or text-to-speech within a Proctorio quiz or exam follow the steps below. Note: The most common reading software would be a traditional Screen Reader such as VoiceOver, JAWS, Microsoft Narrator, and NVDA. These screen readers are natively supported by Proctorio without adjustment.
- Log-in to Canvas
- Select the section the referenced student attends
- Within that section navigate to the Quizzes section:
- Locate and select the first Remotely Proctored quiz which needs adjusting. Please note every quiz/exam the student with accommodations will be taking will need adjustment.
- Within the quiz select the "Edit" button.
- Wait a moment for the "Proctorio Settings" tab to load above the Quiz title and then select the "Proctorio Settings" tab.
- Under "Proctorio Exam Settings" and then "Lock Down Options" select the full screen option "Moderate (15s)"
- After selecting "Moderate (15s)" select the "Full Screen Off" option to allow browser-based Chrome Extensions for text-to-speech like Read&Write for Google Chrome™.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and select the "Save" button.
Note on Read&Write Use for Testing
The Read&Write software, either installed on an individual's computer or accessed through the Google Chrome Browser extension, is quite a powerful set of assistive technology tools. While Adaptive Services will make every effort to communicate which settings are appropriate based on their accommodations to the students for testing sessions, we want to provide you with acceptable views of the toolbar and features which will not impact exam integrity.
Hover Speech - Will provide text to speech based on the users mouse cursor hovering.
Text to Speech controls - Allow the user to have the software read aloud webpage content, such as test questions and choices, where the word is both highlighted and spoken.
Screenshot Reader - Allows the user to have images of text or inaccessible PDFs read aloud after the text has been recognized by Read&Write.
Screen Masking - Provides a visual "ruler" across the screen to better focus on a line or multiple lines of text.
Talk and Type - Allows users to dictate what they speak aloud to text.
An example of what the full toolbar should look like while testing is below. Please note, not all students may need to use the Talk and Type feature to take their exams, but for those who need to type with their voice as an accommodation will have it enabled.
To adjust the features available before testing, students should consult the "Can I hide or move features on the Read&Write for Google Chrome toolbar?" TextHelp support article and remove the following features. Similar steps are available for the installed versions of Read&Write.
- Check It
- Prediction
- Dictionary
- Picture Dictionary
- Audio Maker
- Web search
- Translator
- Yellow highlight
- Green highlight
- Blue highlight
- Pink highlight
- Clear highlights
- Collect highlights
- Vocabulary
- Simplify page
- Rewordify
- Voice Note
- Practice Reading Aloud