AI Overlay for Blackboard Learn Ultra Native Lockdown on Mac

Blackboard Learn Ultra, built by Anthology, ships native test security options that work without Respondus: Force Completion, password protection, display dates, IP filtering, and Begin Test in New Window. For instructors who do not need webcam recording, these are the default controls.

Blackboard Ultra Assessment Settings panel contains the native security menu: a Time Limit with optional auto-submit, a Force Completion toggle, Display Dates that hide the test before a date, Password, IP Filtering, and Begin Test in New Window. Anthology has explicitly recommended that institutions move away from Force Completion (it locks students out on browser crashes) toward timer-based enforcement.

Native Ultra lockdown is built into Anthology assessment engine and runs entirely in the browser.

Force Completion only blocks resuming after a tab close.

Ultra logs visibilitychange and focus loss events in some configurations.

No. IP Filter checks your egress IP against an allow-list.