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Restrict access to unauthorized material in Canvas with KTH Digicertus Exam

During KTH Digicertus Exam, the computers are locked, but since other parts of Canvas are accessible, you as the designer of the examination need to restrict access to specific items. You can also set limits so that only students who are in the computer room can access the examination. Read more about how to prevent access to materials in Canvas and how to act if you suspect cheating.

Ongoing development 2026

Lockdown to examination rooms on the way

A development project is currently ongoing for KTH Digicertus Exam, focusing on improved lockdown functionality in Canvas. Right now, functionality is restricted within Canvas, but the lockdown is not tied to a specific examination room. The ongoing work aims to enable lockdown to a specific room in Canvas, in order to increase confidence that students only have access to the material intended by the teacher.

A pilot of the new lockdown functionality will be conducted during the re-exam period in August 2026. If you are interested in participating and testing the solution, please contact E-learning at e-learning@kth.se .

Check access to other parts of Canvas

The lockdown solution for examinations in computer rooms restricts students' access to specific parts of Canvas during the exam. Consider how other information in Canvas should be limited. Read more about Locking down computers . 

Limit access to other parts of Canvas 

Since students also have access to other course rooms, lockdown may need to be complemented to prevent access to course materials, such as regular course rooms (if examination rooms are used) and previous course rounds. This is easily done by hiding these options in the navigation menu in the room's settings.

Learn more about how the navigation menu works on the page about how to change the Navigation settings . Make sure to do this as late as possible before the exam, and inform the students that they will not have access to course materials.

Restrict access to the quiz outside the room 

During exams in computer rooms, you may want to ensure that only students in the room have access to the assignment to avoid unauthorized participation. This can be done in two ways in a quiz.

  1. Require a password to open the quiz and only share the password in the room.
  2. Restrict the IP addresses from which the quiz can be opened.

Read more about Settings for examining quiz .

In case of suspected attempt to deceive 

In cases where you suspect that a student may have engaged in an attempt to deceive (or cheating), there are tools available to review user activity. This can be done by examining different types of logs that, in various ways, record the student’s activity. Some logs are available to teachers, course coordinators, and examiners, while others can only be accessed by IT support.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to review logs at scale or monitor the activity of all students continuously. Log reviews are only carried out in rare cases when there is a strong suspicion of cheating.

Logs available to teachers

If the examination was conducted using a New Quiz in Canvas, there are logs that show the student’s activity. As a teacher, course coordinator, or examiner, you can access these by entering the quiz building interface. In the top menu, under “Moderate,” you can view each student’s activity log, which provides details on how the student navigated during the quiz. For example, the logs can show if the student left the quiz or pasted answers.

Written text "View log" with an exclamation mark, in red.
Canvas indicates that the quiz has been accessed from multiple devices.

If you have enabled the “Identify multiple sessions” setting in the quiz, it will also flag if a student has opened the quiz from multiple devices. These sessions are marked in the activity log with a red exclamation mark.

Note! If anonymous grading is enabled for the quiz, Canvas quiz logs are not available for the relevant submissions. Read more about Anonymous Grading in Canvas .

For more information about logs in Canvas, see:

Logs available to IT support

In addition to what teachers can see in the quiz logs, Canvas also logs further user activity. This includes, for example, page loads, authentication events, and API calls. There is also information about the browser and IP addresses used. In addition to Canvas logs, there are local SEB client logs that show whether the lockdown was maintained during the examination and whether the student attempted to break out. To access these logs, you need to contact it-support@kth.se .

Help accessing and interpreting logs

It can be difficult to interpret and understand what the logs mean. If you suspect cheating, contact it-support@kth.se  for further assistance. They can help you interpret quiz logs, provide page view logs with explanations, and examine SEB logs.

Note! IT will never make an independent judgment about whether cheating has occurred, but they can provide support by explaining and interpreting the information contained in the logs.