AI Overlay for Blackboard Quizzes with Respondus on Mac

Blackboard Learn (now Anthology Blackboard) is one of the three major US LMSes alongside Canvas and Moodle. Many Blackboard courses use the LockDown Browser plugin to deliver tests under proctored conditions on Mac.

A Blackboard test set to "Require Respondus LockDown Browser" appears as a regular link until you click it; the link launches Respondus, which loads the Blackboard quiz inside its locked Chromium environment. The capture stack is identical to Canvas + Respondus and to standalone LockDown Browser exams: macOS ScreenCaptureKit on 12.3+, with per-window privacy enforced by the OS. Fracture' overlay window has the flag set, so any recording or screen share inside Respondus contains everything except the overlay region.

No. Blackboard's test engine just records answers. The proctoring layer comes from Respondus when enabled, or from a separate tool like Honorlock.

Honorlock is a Chrome extension. The overlay is invisible to Honorlock's screen capture too. See our dedicated Honorlock guide for specifics.

That is a policy and instructor question, not a technical one. The overlay does not cause Respondus crashes; it runs in a separate process tree.