LockDown Browser Hack 11.0 + Redeem Codes

This is the first app review I’ve ever made and I’ll just start off by saying that using lockdown browser was the absolute worst test taking experience I have ever had. I started logging into canvas to take a 30 minute quiz just so the app would freeze and crash over a dozen times, effectively taking more time than the quiz allowed for, granting me a 0 on it. Considering most professors in this online day and age don’t trust students when test taking at home, they didn’t buy that this garbage app was the culprit and not my iPad or WiFi which has never had any problems to date. I might as well have just gone to a public bathroom and flipped through pages of an STD textbook for 2 hours instead of going through the immeasurable suffering that was trying to make this app work. The former would even be preferred at this point. And here I am, a straight A student getting the first B in my college career all because of an embarrassing excuse of a mobile test proctoring application. The quiz was an easy 10 questions long and would have taken me no more than 10 minutes to complete. Screw this app and its Neanderthal developers.

Because of distance learning, college Board requires AP students to download this app for the exams. While I was taking a practice exam(I was on question 43 out of 60), I was randomly kicked out of it and brought back to the sign in screen. It at first didn’t bother me since I usually get kicked out of practice test on the college board site, however, because I had the LockDown browser open, I was not able to login again. I also couldn’t use the home button or the power button either, so I was stuck on the sign in screen. I spent 20 minutes stressing out because I had other assignments I had to work on. I had to fully shut down the IPad to exit out of the frozen screen. While I was able to access my other applications now, it still didn’t allow me to finish my practice exam. I had to ultimately email my teacher so I don’t get points take away for not completing this assignment. I partially blame this on college board as well since I get kicked off of practice test all the time. I really hope this situation does not happen during the actual test and ruin my chances of passing.

After reading the one-star reviews of this app, I was very nervous to use it. I needed it for an astronomy final I had to take while on vacation, and I was only given a 6 hour timeframe to complete it. Thankfully, no crashes or freeze-ups occurred during the half-hour it took me to complete the test, but there was a bit of a fiasco that occurred beforehand. When I first tried to take the test. I got a notification saying that my teacher hadn’t allowed the use of the iPad app to take the test. This freaked me out, because it was 10:00 already and I only had 2 hours left to take the final. I emailed my teacher explaining the situation, and he was able to remove the restriction in time for me to take the test. To prevent this from happening to you, I would recommend emailing your teacher a week or so beforehand to let them know you will be using the iPad app to take the test.

I just finished checking your website and noticed that you are consistently updating lockdown on Mac and windows users. So please do the same for the iOS app version. Speaking from my personal experience, i tried using lockdown respondus and everything seemed fine, then literally 5 minutes into my exam it kicked me out. I could easily just reboot the app and log back into my exam right? Nope. It wouldn’t work and only continued to kick me out. The reason this is a problem for me and others is because these exams are timed. I had an hour to do a 30 question exam and i literally spent 20 of those minutes trying to get back in the exam. And the worst part is i was going through all the comments and you have not responded to anyone. So i can see where your priorities are. The only reason I’m going to 5 star this is so I hope i get some acknowledgement and you all decide to update the app. If not might as well delete this app from the App Store and save every student a headache.

🙏PLEASE PLEASE UPDATE THIS APP FOR iPADS.🙏I’ll send you virtual pizzas in perpetuity.🙏Is this app is supposed to work on iPads? I’m sorry to say it very much does not. In short, it took me two days to attempt to complete a 60 minute exam. After being frozen out twice and kicked out of the browser completely three times, I only had about 20 minutes total to complete 30 questions. You do the math on that. Every time I was kicked out of the browser I had to go through the entire pre-test check, and all this time the clock was ticking on my time limit. Trying to complete a speed biochem exam is highly stressful and ultimately a poor performance by a well-prepared student. I talked to Respondus tech support and they say it’s my LMS (Canvas) where the problems exist. I talked to Canvas and they say it’s a Respondus issue. WHAT THE HECK?!? I’m just at the beginning of my course and very stressed out about the remaining 8 tests. For the love of testing students everywhere, PLEASE FIX THIS!

I read all of the reviews but I had no choice but this app. I used it on two separate occasions both were 15 minute quizzes. Overall It never crashed for me or anything like that, but every now and then the app would flash a screen with a long line of codes for maybe 2 seconds then return to the normal page. This would happen randomly every two minutes or when I click a link or change the page. I’m assuming this is a possible fix to the app crashing or something like that I really dont know. I did need to ask my professor during class to unlock it for the ipad and in about 5 minutes I had full access. The app worked how it was supposed to but it was very sketchy and nerve racking using it the whole time, definitely not something I want to have to deal with during a quiz.

NOT a joke review like almost everyone. Not only did it say something was disabled and "test can't be delivered." What does that even mean? Is this a pizza? But it also didn't even let me close the app afterwards. I gave up trying to get the test to start so I tried closing the app. A screen popped up and said I needed a password to exit even though there wasn't one and I couldn't even shut down the iPad so I could close the app. I found a way to hard restart but it took a while to find out how to do that and this app makes a huge deal out of me just wanting to exit the app. Atleast add the functionality of being able to power off the iPad. It works on pc though but my review is based on this app in particular. On pc it makes a huge deal out of me wanting to exit and says your teacher will know don't exit like I should worry about that? I bet my teacher wouldn't even care because I like exiting tests and coming back later and that shouldn't be a big deal.

Plead with your professors, teachers, or educators of any sort to NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP. I spent an hour and a half on an AP practice test only for it to randomly give me an error message. This meant that the app was still locking my iPad and I couldn’t leave. I was forced to hard reset my iPad. Luckily, the AP website saved my progress and I was able to continue, but at the expense of all the functions on my iPad locking up again until I finished. When it “locks down” your iPad, it LOCKS IT DOWN. You cannot exit the screen you are on nor turn your device screen off. You cannot adjust the brightness of your screen which is essential to helping with eye strain after an entire day of using this horrendous app. The only, and I mean ONLY thing this app lets you do, is adjust volume and touch the screen in the browser. Everything else is locked out. Every. Single. Thing. What a terrific way to make your students hate your class. DO. NOT. DOWNLOAD.

We have to use this browser for tests and exams in AP, and it's by far the worst app for the job possible. It's very glitchy and slow. It doesn't even allow me to log into my AP Classroom account. Just last 9 weeks for my first AP Lang exam, I wasn't able to take it at the selected time and spent over 40 minutes stressing over how to make it work. I ended up powering off my device multiple times, creating new tabs, and changed my password altogether to no avail. It doesn't try to process the user or password; it's just stuck on the log-in page. My teacher had to create a file on Schoology containing a pdf of the exam as an alternative because so many students were experiencing issues with this app. I can't even begin to imagine how things will go once finals arrive in the spring. There's no way I can take AP exams under these conditions.

Why do colleges and universities even use this app? I am sure there are much better ones out there. This app has been the same the whole three years I have had to use it. Today I took my physical geology exam (well, tried to) on lockdown browser. I was halfway through my exam when the app crashed, kicked me out, and froze my iPad. I couldn’t even turn it off or tap anything. I finally had to reset my iPad. I lost all of my test time and had to beg my professor to reset the test for me. She did, but it kept crashing and I kept loosing test time. I was finally about out of time and I just had to submit it. I ended up being kicked out about 6 times. I’m sure I failed it just because I ran out of time due to the stupid app malfunctioning. This has happened with so many of my tests. HIRE SOME APP DEVELOPERS AND FIX THE PROBLEM. Students are failing because of you!!!