Secure Assessment Mode

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Secure Assessment Mode

Brandon Lax 21

I am trying to build an application to offer examinations. I can see that in the App Capability Page there is an option for secureAssessment. However, there is little other documentation that goes along with that. I have previously asked about this on this forum and was direct to the Take A Test API but this API only seems to work when you open a webpage from within the built-in Take A Test app. My goal is to be able to build my own app natively and not have to work with in the Take A Test application as it does not meet my needs.

I feel like there must be something missing like an C#/C++ API connected to this.

Fay Wang - MSFT 5,226 Reputation points

2020-07-29T02:14:00.937+00:00

I'm not sure if there is any other way to lockdown Windows for secure assessments, I will confirm with team about it.
Brandon Lax 21 Reputation points

2020-07-29T02:24:31.91+00:00

Thank you so much. Simply put I am building a solution that has to work cross platform in a non-managed environment. Simply put, the platform is going to be used in higher education where students are bringing their own computers to exams and might take different exams on different computers (especially with the current pandemic) and potential remote learning.
Brandon Lax 21 Reputation points

2020-08-08T02:02:12.547+00:00

Hi @Fay Wang - MSFT have you heard anything back from the team?

It definitely seems weird for the capability and the api to be related. Simply put if you are using the take-a-test api, you are building a web app that would not ever need to declare capabilities as it is not a native app so it does not seem that these two things should be related.

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Fay Wang - MSFT 5,226 Reputation points

2020-07-29T02:14:00.937+00:00

I'm not sure if there is any other way to lockdown Windows for secure assessments, I will confirm with team about it.
Brandon Lax 21 Reputation points

2020-07-29T02:24:31.91+00:00

Thank you so much. Simply put I am building a solution that has to work cross platform in a non-managed environment. Simply put, the platform is going to be used in higher education where students are bringing their own computers to exams and might take different exams on different computers (especially with the current pandemic) and potential remote learning.
Brandon Lax 21 Reputation points

2020-08-08T02:02:12.547+00:00

Hi @Fay Wang - MSFT have you heard anything back from the team?

It definitely seems weird for the capability and the api to be related. Simply put if you are using the take-a-test api, you are building a web app that would not ever need to declare capabilities as it is not a native app so it does not seem that these two things should be related.

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Fay Wang - MSFT 5,226

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

There's an app and an API for Take a Test. The API requires the use of the restricted capability secureAssemsment when we try to use it. The API is supported from UWP apps and makes use of the security namespace of the JavaScript API to do so. There are samples of using the API methods in that document.

Since that's a JavaScript API, they'd have to call it from somewhere that can invoke JavaScript. So it could be in a WebView or directly from a UWP app made with JavaScript. In addition, if you primarily develop in C#, you can create WinRT components for most things and use the WinRT component(s) from the JavaScript application.

Thanks.

Brandon Lax 21 Reputation points

2020-08-27T23:39:28.747+00:00

Hi @Fay Wang - MSFT . Thank you so much for the information.

I am following your suggestion and using a WebView to control the secure browser system, however, I am unsure how to get all the necessary pars set up. I have been trying to debug the web view content through the Microsoft Edge DevTools and no matter what I change I can not get it to give me the global SecureBrowser object.

I have the page set up to have full access to Windows Runtime and I have the secureAssessment capability properly declared in my package.appxmanifest. Is there any additional work that needs to be done outside of the package.appxmanifest to get the Take A Test Api to work (there is no additional documentation to this api)?

Thanks

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