CIRT, University of North Florida

How do I prevent students from printing tests?

Here's a useful tip to help prevent printing of Blackboard tests.

Copy and paste the following code into the Instructions for your exam, and select Html at the bottom of the text box.
If you have the WYSIWYG text box editor turned on, click , and then paste the code in the HTML View window and click Submit.

<script language="Javascript" src="http://blackboard.unf.edu/support/includes/nocopy.js"></script>

The line does not display in the quiz, however it will prevent printing from any browser that supports Cascading Style Sheets (e.g. Latest versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari).

This does not prevent screen captures, or File/Save As browser function.

**Please Note: Use of this javascript code will prevent students from completing an assessment in the Safari browser as they will be unable to select answers in the assessment. If you use the script, please instruct all Mac users to use the FireFox browser for the assessment. Also, use of this script will prevent Instructors from manually grading the assessment attempts in FireFox.