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education/windows/edu-take-a-test-kiosk-mode.md

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 - ✅ <b>Windows 11 SE</b>
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-# Configure Take a Test
+# Configure Take a Test in kiosk mode
 
 Many schools use online testing for formative and summation assessments. It's critical that students use a secure browser that prevents them from using other computer or Internet resources during the test. To help schools with this, Windows provides an application called **Take a Test**. The application is a secure browser that can be configured to only allow access to a specific URL or a list of URLs. The application also provides a number of other features to help with testing, such as preventing printing, preventing screen capture, and preventing text suggestions.
 

education/windows/take-tests-in-windows.md

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+---
+title: Take tests and assessments in Windows
+description: Description of the built-in Take a Test app for Windows and how to use it.
+ms.date: 09/30/2022
+ms.prod: windows
+ms.technology: windows
+ms.topic: conceptual
+ms.localizationpriority: medium
+author: paolomatarazzo
+ms.author: paoloma
+ms.reviewer:
+manager: aaroncz
+ms.collection: education
+appliesto:
+- ✅ <b>Windows 10</b>
+- ✅ <b>Windows 11</b>
+- ✅ <b>Windows 11 SE</b>
+---
+
+# Take tests and assessments in Windows
+
+Many schools use online testing for formative and summation assessments. It's critical that students use a secure browser that prevents them from using other computer or Internet resources during the test. To help schools with testing, Windows provides an application called **Take a Test**. The application is a secure browser that can be configured to only allow access a specific URL or a list of URLs. The application provides more features to help with testing, such as:
+
+- prevention of printing, screen capture and text suggestions (unless enabled by the teacher or administrator)
+- clearing of the clipboard
+- prevention of accessing other applications
+- prevention to change system settings, such as display extension, notifications, updates
+- disablement of Cortana
+
+## How to use Take a Test
+
+There are different ways to use Take a Test, depending on the use case:
+
+- For lower stakes assessments, such a quick quiz in a class, a teacher can generate a *secure assessment URL* and share it with the students. Students can then open the URL to access the assessment through Take a Test. To learn more, see the next section: [Create and distribute a secure assessment link](#create-and-distribute-a-secure-assessment-link)
+- For lower stakes assessments, you can configure Windows devices to use a dedicated account for testing and execute Take a Test in a locked-down mode, called **kiosk mode**. Once signed in with the dedicated account, Windows will execute Take a Test in a lock-down mode, preventing the execution of any applications other than Take a Test. For more information, see [Configure Take a Test in kiosk mode](edu-take-a-test-kiosk-mode.md)
+
+![Set up and user flow for the Take a Test app.](images/takeatest/flow-chart.png)
+
+## Create a secure assessment link
+
+Anything hosted on the web can be presented in a locked down manner using the **Take a Test** app, not just assessments. To lock down online content, a URL must be embedded with a specific prefix and devices will be locked down when users open the link.
+
+To create a secure assessment link to the test, there are two options:
+
+- Create a link using a web application
+- Create a link using schema activation
+
+### Create a link using a web application
+
+For this option, copy the assessment URL and open the web application <a href="https://aka.ms/create-a-take-a-test-link" target="_blank"><u>Customize your assessment URL</u></a>, where you can:
+
+1. Paste the link to the assessment URL
+1. Select the options you want to allow during the test
+1. Generate the link by selecting the button Create link
+
+This is an ideal option for teachers who want to create a link to a specific assessment and share it with students using OneNote, for example.
+
+### Create a link using schema activation
+
+For this option, you embed a URL with a specific prefix and specify parameters depending on what you want to allow during the test.
+The URL must be in the following format:
+
+```
+ms-edu-secureassessment:<URL>#enforceLockdown
+```
+
+To enable printing, screen capture, or both, use the above link and append one of these parameters:
+
+- `&enableTextSuggestions` - Enables text suggestions
+- `&requirePrinting` - Enables printing
+- `&enableScreenCapture` - Enables screen capture
+- `&requirePrinting&enableScreenCapture` - Enables printing and screen capture; you can use a combination of `&enableTextSuggestions`, `&requirePrinting`, and `&enableScreenCapture` if you want to enable more than one capability.
+
+If these parameters aren't included, the default behavior is to disable the capabilities.
+
+For tests that utilize the Windows lockdown API, which checks for running processes before locking down, remove `enforceLockdown`. Removing `enforceLockdown` will result in the app not locking down immediately, which allows you to close apps that aren't allowed to run during lockdown. Take a Test will lock down the device once the applications are closed.
+
+To enable permissive mode, don't include `enforceLockdown` in the schema parameters. For more information, see [Permissive mode](take-a-test-app-technical.md#permissive-mode).
+
+## Distribute the secure assessment link
+
+Once the link is created, it can be distributed through the web, email, OneNote, or any other method of your choosing.
+
+For example, you can create and copy the shortcut to the assessment URL to the students' desktop.
+
+To take the test, have the students open the link.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> If you enabled printing, the printer must be pre-configured for the account before the student takes the test.
+
+:::image type="content" source="./images/takeatest/desktop-shortcuts.png" alt-text="Windows 11 SE desktop showing two shortcuts to assessment URLs." border="true":::
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> If using `enforceLockdown`, to exit the Take a Test app at any time, press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Delete</kbd>. Students will be prompted to type their password to get back to their desktop.
+
+For more information about the Take a Test app, see [Take a Test app technical reference](take-a-test-app-technical.md).