Which LMS does Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026) use for proctored exams?

Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard Learn/Ultra, or D2L Brightspace depending on the school. Verify in your course; the LMS launches LockDown Browser via LTI 1.3.

Does Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026) require Monitor (webcam recording) for all online exams?

Monitor enablement is configured per-quiz by the instructor, not globally by the institution. High-stakes exams typically enable Monitor; low-stakes quizzes typically do not.

How does Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026) handle accommodations for proctored exams?

Through the institutional Disability Services or Office of Student Accessibility (institutional name varies). Documentation from a treating clinician is required before the academic term starts.

Where can I download LockDown Browser for Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026)?

From the institution-specific LockDown Browser download page, not the generic Respondus.com download. The institutional download is pinned to the version your courses expect.

What is Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026)'s recording retention policy?

Specific to the institution and jurisdiction. The Registrar or the institutional Data Protection Officer is the authoritative source; the public-facing privacy notice for exam recordings is also a valid reference.

What if LockDown Browser fails during a graded exam at Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026)?

Document the failure with a phone photo or video, email the instructor immediately with timestamps, and follow up with the institutional IT helpdesk. The instructor decides under the missed-exam policy.

Misconception: All universities configure LockDown Browser identically.

Institutional configuration varies along recording retention, Monitor enablement defaults, accommodations workflow, and LMS integration. Two universities running the same LDB version can produce different student experiences for the same kind of exam.

Misconception: The institutional IT helpdesk can answer policy questions about exam recordings.

IT helpdesk answers technical questions (the application failed, the LMS handshake broke). Policy questions (retention, AI use, accommodations, recording access) belong to the Registrar, the Data Protection Officer, or Disability Services depending on the question.

Misconception: Students must use whatever proctoring tool the institution selects without recourse.

Most institutions provide an alternative testing modality (in-person, paper, on-campus) for students with documented privacy or accessibility concerns. The request route is typically through Disability Services or the Registrar.

Misconception: The institution can share exam recordings with third parties at will.

Sharing is limited by FERPA (US), GDPR (EU/EEA), UK GDPR, LGPD, DPDP 2023, and equivalent regulations. Specific consent or a legal basis is required; routine sharing without notice is generally prohibited.

Misconception: The institutional academic integrity process treats Monitor flags as proof.

Institutional academic-integrity hearings treat flags as one input alongside instructor judgement, student rebuttal, and contextual evidence. Burden of proof and student rights are defined by institutional honor-code policy.

Misconception: Exam recordings are deleted automatically after the term.

Retention is configured per-institution and ranges from 6 months to 7 years in practice. Default is 5 years in US institutions under Respondus defaults; 1 to 2 years in EU institutions under GDPR storage-limitation principles.

LockDown Browser at Georgetown University in Qatar on a Mac: Q2 2026 student guide

Last updated 2026-05-13 · LDBypass Editorial · Reviewed by S. Ortiz on March 3, 2026

GU-Q runs Canvas with Respondus LockDown Browser and an optional Monitor add-on reserved for GU Qatar instructors only. On a 2024 or 2025 MacBook the install is straightforward; the harder problem is knowing where the Doha-specific routes diverge from the main Georgetown stack.

Quick reference

Field	Value
Institution	Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026)
Predominant LMS family	Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard Learn/Ultra, or D2L Brightspace (institution-specific; verify in your course)
LockDown Browser version expected	2.1.x throughout 2026; current institutional build available from the institution's LDB download page
Recording retention default	1-5 years depending on jurisdiction and institutional policy; Registrar is the authoritative source
Regulating privacy authority	Federal Department of Education (US, FERPA), national Data Protection Authorities (EU/EEA, UK), per-country authority elsewhere
Accommodation route	Disability Services / Office of Student Accessibility (institutional name varies); accommodations propagate to specific LMS quiz instances via instructor configuration
AI-use policy authority	Course syllabus first; institutional Academic Integrity / Honor Code second; instructor written confirmation when in doubt

Prerequisites

Your institutional email address and SSO credentials.
Access to the institutional LMS course where your exams are administered.
A copy of the relevant course syllabus and the institutional Academic Integrity policy.
A Mac configured per the institutional minimum specification (Apple Silicon recommended; supported Intel acceptable through 2026).
Where applicable, accommodations documentation from a treating clinician filed with Disability Services before the term starts.

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) is the Doha campus of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. The university sits in Education City under Qatar Foundation and teaches international relations, history, government, economics, and culture and politics. Canvas is the LMS. Respondus LockDown Browser is the standard proctor, and Respondus Monitor is available but explicitly restricted to GU-Q instructors only — unauthorised use by other Georgetown faculty makes the requesting department liable for the cost. That restriction matters: it tells you GU-Q has its own licensing footprint inside the larger Georgetown contract.

Quick orientation

Campus: Education City, Doha. Main entrance off Al Luqta Street, in the same QF cluster as NU-Q and Texas A&M at Qatar.
LMS: Canvas at canvas.georgetown.edu, with GU-Q's LibGuide "Up and Running with Canvas LMS" curated specifically for Doha students.
Proctor: Respondus LockDown Browser by default; Respondus Monitor reserved for GU-Q instructors; Proctorio also available for some Georgetown courses.
Current LDB build: 2.1.5.00 for Mac.
EdTech: edtech@georgetown.edu at the main Washington DC team; local GU-Q support through the Office of Academic Services (OASQ) and the Doha IT help desk.
Phone: +974 4457 8100 (main switchboard).

LMS and proctoring stack

GU-Q teaches inside the global Georgetown Canvas tenant, federated through Georgetown's NetID. Inside a Canvas course, Georgetown surfaces several proctoring options — Respondus LockDown Browser, Respondus Monitor, Proctorio, and Zoom-based proctoring — under the campus EdTech Online Exam Tools catalogue. GU-Q's faculty have written their own Monitor authorisation policy that warns other Georgetown campuses against enabling Monitor without coordination, because the licence cost falls on the requesting department.

Component	GU-Q specifics	Mac note
Canvas	canvas.georgetown.edu, NetID + DUO MFA	Safari 18 on Tahoe 26 supported
LockDown Browser 2.1.5	Surfaces inside the Canvas quiz; Georgetown-tagged installer	Universal binary; native M1-M4
Respondus Monitor	GU-Q instructors only; written authorisation policy in place	Camera, mic, Screen Recording in Privacy panel
Proctorio	Used by some Georgetown courses; a browser extension under the hood	Runs in Chrome, not LDB

GU-Q's library publishes a dedicated Canvas onboarding guide at guides.qatar.georgetown.edu/canvas. If you are new to Georgetown's Canvas, the GU-Q LibGuide is more useful than the main DC version because it adjusts the screenshots for the Education City flow and notes which Georgetown LTI tools are on for Doha students.

Installing LDB on a 2024 or 2025 MacBook at GU-Q

Sign into canvas.georgetown.edu with your NetID, complete DUO push.
Open the Canvas quiz; click the "LockDown Browser is required" download link. The installer is tagged with the Georgetown institution ID, which is what LDB checks at first run.
Mount the .dmg, drag LDB into /Applications, eject. Right-click > Open the first time on Tahoe 26 to clear Gatekeeper.
Launch LDB once. Grant Camera, Microphone, and Screen Recording in System Settings > Privacy & Security. Sequoia 15.2+ re-prompts for Screen Recording weekly.
Run the test page's webcam check from inside Pressdock or the GU-Q building. Education City's QF Connect SSID is the default for guest visitors; use Georgetown's NetID-authenticated SSID for the cert pin to hold.

Privacy framework: Qatar PDPPL at GU-Q

Qatar's Law No. 13 of 2016 on Personal Data Privacy Protection (PDPPL) is the relevant statute. The PDPPL applies to personal data received, collected, extracted, or processed through electronic means in Qatar. Biometric data — including the facial frames Respondus Monitor captures during an exam — is treated as sensitive personal data deserving heightened protection.

Principles: transparency, fairness, respect for human dignity, processing tied to a specified purpose.
Consent: required for processing, demonstrably obtained. Georgetown obtains it through the Canvas quiz click-through before LDB launches.
Data subject rights: access, rectification, erasure, and objection are recognised; the controller has a duty to respond.
Supervisory authority: the National Cyber Governance and Assurance Affairs inside Qatar's NCSA (assurance.ncsa.gov.qa) supervises compliance.
Penalties: administrative fines up to QAR 1,000,000; serious breaches up to QAR 5,000,000.

The cross-border-transfer question matters here too. Canvas data lives in the United States with Instructure; Respondus stores Monitor recordings in the United States. Georgetown's privacy notice for educational records under FERPA does not displace the PDPPL for data collected inside Qatar. The conservative reading is that both frameworks apply to your exam recording — FERPA in DC, PDPPL in Doha. Practically, your access route is through Georgetown EdTech and the Office of Academic Services.

Accommodations route: Office of Academic Services

GU-Q's Office of Academic Services (OASQ) is the front door for accommodations. Students with a diagnosed disability or medical condition bring Required Documentation for Academic Accommodation to the Student Wellness & Counseling Center; if approved, a counsellor arranges a meeting with the student to scope appropriate services. OASQ then writes to the instructor and the Canvas quiz settings receive the per-student override.

Need	OASQ accommodation	Canvas / LDB effect
ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia	1.5x or 2x time	Per-student override in the Canvas quiz; LDB respects the timer
Anxiety, panic, depression	Quiet testing room in the GU-Q building	Monitor often disabled
Visual impairment	Accessible alternate format	Exam removed from LDB; offered as Canvas-native quiz with screen-reader support
Religious head covering	Monitor opt-out, LDB stays	OASQ letter to instructor
Temporary injury (broken arm)	Note-taker, dictation, or extended time	Notify your academic dean immediately

OASQ's process is documented under qatar.georgetown.edu/current-students/office-of-academic-services/student-academic-success/academic-accommodations. Submit documentation early in the semester; the formal letter to your instructor takes 5-10 working days from approval.

What to do if LDB fails on exam day

Do not force-quit. Phone photo of the error first. The session token survives a controlled relaunch but not a kill.
"Cannot detect or configure the webcam": close FaceTime, Zoom, Teams, any other camera consumer. Tahoe 26 still gates the camera to one process at a time. Then go to Privacy & Security > Camera, toggle LockDown Browser off and on, relaunch.
Black GPU screen on Tahoe 26: hold Option while clicking the Canvas quiz link. Forces LDB's Chromium engine to re-initialise display.
Webcam-check failure on Education City Wi-Fi: swap to the Georgetown-authenticated SSID. QF Connect occasionally drops the Respondus signed cert.
Total failure: phone the GU-Q switchboard at +974 4457 8100 and ask for IT; OASQ can hold the exam window open on instructor request.

Help-desk routing at GU-Q

Georgetown EdTech: edtech@georgetown.edu for the global Canvas and Respondus questions.
GU-Q switchboard: +974 4457 8100; ask for IT for exam-day problems.
OASQ: Office of Academic Services on the GU-Q current-students portal.
Student Wellness & Counseling Center: documentation intake for accommodations.
GU-Q Canvas LibGuide: guides.qatar.georgetown.edu/canvas.
NCSA Compliance: assurance.ncsa.gov.qa for PDPPL complaints.

One Georgetown-specific quirk: DUO push expires inside LDB faster than inside Safari. If you take a long break between selecting the quiz and clicking Begin, your DUO push session may have lapsed and LDB will throw an unhelpful "Session expired" error. The fix is to re-DUO in Safari first, then return to LDB. The other quirk is the campus phone tree: pressing 0 on the +974 4457 8100 menu reaches the front desk faster than navigating the directory.

Key facts

The named institution administers exams via its institutional LMS, accessed through single sign-on from the student portal; LockDown Browser launches via an LTI 1.3 handshake from the LMS quiz link.
Privacy regulation depends on jurisdiction: US institutions are governed primarily by FERPA (20 U.S.C. § 1232g) with state-level supplements where applicable, EU institutions by GDPR plus national law, UK institutions by UK GDPR plus the Data Protection Act 2018, Brazilian by LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados), Mexican by LFPDPPP, Indian by the DPDP Act 2023, South African by POPIA, and per-country authority elsewhere.
Recording-retention defaults at the institution can be inspected by submitting a written request to the Registrar or the Data Protection Officer (where one exists); the institution's privacy notice for exam recordings is the public-facing source of truth.
Accommodations are administered by the institutional Disability Services / Office of Student Accessibility / Equality Office (the name varies by country and institution) and require documentation from a treating clinician before the academic term starts.
The institutional Academic Integrity / Honor Code policy is the authoritative source for what AI use is permitted in coursework and during proctored exams; the Respondus configuration is the technical enforcement of that policy, not the source of it.
Help-desk routing for exam-time technical failures is institution-specific but typically follows: instructor first (for missed-exam policy), institutional IT helpdesk second (for technical reproduction), Respondus support last (for vendor escalation).

Key terms defined

Respondus LockDown Browser: A locked-down desktop browser application developed by Respondus, Inc. that disables operating-system features (screenshot, window switching, screen sharing, virtual machines, second monitors) for the duration of an online proctored exam. Current stable version in 2026 is 2.1.5; runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1-M4) and Intel Macs through Rosetta 2.
Respondus Monitor: An add-on capability of LockDown Browser that records webcam video and microphone audio throughout an exam, uploads the recording to Respondus's cloud over TLS, and provides asynchronous AI behaviour review plus optional human review. Sold per-institution; not a separately licensed product.
macOS TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control): The privacy permission framework on macOS that gates application access to camera, microphone, screen recording, accessibility, and dozens of other sensitive capabilities. The TCC database is at ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db for user permissions and /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db for system permissions; user-facing management is via System Settings > Privacy & Security.
Apple ScreenCaptureKit: The macOS framework (introduced in macOS 12.3 and refined through Sequoia 15) that proctoring tools use to capture screen content. Respects the kCGSWindowSharingNone window-sharing-state flag, which is the technical basis for native overlay tools that show content selectively to the user but not to the recorder. Apple Developer documentation.
FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act): The US federal statute (20 U.S.C. § 1232g) that governs the privacy of student educational records, including exam recordings, at US institutions that receive federal funding. FERPA grants students rights of access to their own records and limits the institution's ability to share them with third parties without consent.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation): The EU regulation (2016/679) that governs personal-data processing in the European Union and the European Economic Area, including exam recordings of EU-domiciled students. GDPR grants data subjects rights of access (Article 15), erasure (Article 17), and data portability (Article 20), enforceable against the institution as data controller.

Common misconceptions

False: All universities configure LockDown Browser identically.: True: Institutional configuration varies along recording retention, Monitor enablement defaults, accommodations workflow, and LMS integration. Two universities running the same LDB version can produce different student experiences for the same kind of exam.
False: The institutional IT helpdesk can answer policy questions about exam recordings.: True: IT helpdesk answers technical questions (the application failed, the LMS handshake broke). Policy questions (retention, AI use, accommodations, recording access) belong to the Registrar, the Data Protection Officer, or Disability Services depending on the question.
False: Students must use whatever proctoring tool the institution selects without recourse.: True: Most institutions provide an alternative testing modality (in-person, paper, on-campus) for students with documented privacy or accessibility concerns. The request route is typically through Disability Services or the Registrar.
False: The institution can share exam recordings with third parties at will.: True: Sharing is limited by FERPA (US), GDPR (EU/EEA), UK GDPR, LGPD, DPDP 2023, and equivalent regulations. Specific consent or a legal basis is required; routine sharing without notice is generally prohibited.
False: The institutional academic integrity process treats Monitor flags as proof.: True: Institutional academic-integrity hearings treat flags as one input alongside instructor judgement, student rebuttal, and contextual evidence. Burden of proof and student rights are defined by institutional honor-code policy.
False: Exam recordings are deleted automatically after the term.: True: Retention is configured per-institution and ranges from 6 months to 7 years in practice. Default is 5 years in US institutions under Respondus defaults; 1 to 2 years in EU institutions under GDPR storage-limitation principles.

Stats at a glance

LMS platforms common at this institution: Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace
LockDown Browser version expected (2026): 2.1.x
Recording retention default: 1-5 years (institution-specific)
Accommodations administrator: Disability Services / Office of Student Accessibility
Privacy framework: Per-jurisdiction (FERPA, UK GDPR, EU GDPR, equivalents)

Implementation details for Georgetown Qatar (Mac, 2026)

The LockDown Browser deployment at this institution is configured at the LMS-administrator level, not at the LDB-application level — in other words, the same LDB binary you download is configured server-side to behave in ways that vary across institutions. Three specific dimensions vary materially and matter for your exam-day setup.

Identity verification stringency. Some schools configure Monitor to require both a photo ID capture and a 360-degree room scan at the start of every exam; others enable only one; others none. The syllabus or the practice quiz for your specific course is the authoritative source — do not infer from this article that your specific exam will or will not require each step. Approach the practice quiz at least 24 hours before the graded exam, observe what it asks for, and prepare for that.

Recording retention window. US institutions default to 5-year retention under FERPA-permitted policy; EU institutions default to 1-2 years under GDPR retention-limitation principles; private universities may set shorter or longer windows by institutional policy. If you want to know your specific school's retention before sitting an exam, the Registrar's office is the authoritative source — this article does not vary by school in that dimension because the policy is opaque from the student side.

Accommodation propagation. An accommodation letter on file with the campus disability office must also be loaded into the specific LMS quiz instance by your instructor to take effect during LDB. Institution-wide accommodations do not propagate automatically; verify in the practice quiz that extended time, breaks, or other accommodations are active before exam day.

How this varies in practice at this institution

Even when an institution licenses LockDown Browser at the campus level, the actual exam configuration is decided at the course and instructor level inside the LMS. The same student in two different courses at the same school can encounter very different LDB settings — one course may require Monitor recording with room scan, the next may use LDB without Monitor, and a third may use the LMS quiz with no LDB at all.

Concretely, for a student approaching an exam at this institution we recommend three pre-exam confirmations in addition to the technical checklist below. First, read the syllabus or quiz description for the specific course to see whether webcam recording (Monitor) is enabled in addition to the browser lockdown — this changes both your privacy footprint and the required pre-flight (webcam + lighting + room setup). Second, if your course is part of an online-cohort programme, verify the time-zone the exam window is anchored to (it is the school's time zone, not necessarily yours, and international students routinely lose attempts to a misread schedule). Third, if you hold a documented accommodation, confirm it has been loaded by your instructor into the specific quiz instance — an institution-level accommodation that hasn't propagated to the LMS quiz will not apply automatically when LDB launches.

Pre-exam checklist for Mac users

Most Respondus exam-day failures are preventable with a 10-minute pre-flight. Run this 24 hours before the exam window opens, and again 5 minutes before launch:

Plug your Mac into wall power and verify the battery indicator shows charging. Two-hour exams routinely drain MacBook Air batteries by 30-50% even on M-series; do not rely on battery alone.
Update macOS to the latest stable point release (Sequoia 15.x or Tahoe 26.x throughout 2026). Then update LockDown Browser by re-downloading from your LMS quiz page — do not assume an LDB installed two months ago is current.
Quit every browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Arc) via Cmd+Q, then open Activity Monitor and confirm no browser processes remain. LDB blocks launch if any are detected.
Disable VPN, pause iCloud Drive and Photos sync, pause Time Machine, and disable any active "auto-update" agents that might restart Mac during your exam window.
Test the network at speedtest.net: minimum 5 Mbps upload and 10 Mbps download for Monitor-enabled exams.
Confirm the three TCC permissions (Screen Recording, Camera, Microphone) for LockDown Browser are still granted — macOS occasionally clears these silently across major version updates.
Take the instructor's practice quiz if one exists. This catches permission, network, and webcam issues while you still have time to fix them.

Accommodations and accessibility

If a documented disability or temporary medical condition makes the steps in this article impractical, you are entitled to accommodations under the ADA (United States), the Equality Act 2010 (United Kingdom), and analogous statutes in most jurisdictions. The standard path is: contact your university's Disability Services / Office of Student Accessibility, submit current documentation from a treating clinician, receive an accommodation letter, and forward that letter to the instructor for the course where the proctored exam is administered.

Common accommodations relevant to Respondus exams on Mac include extended testing time (1.5x or 2x), a private testing room (reduces room-scan friction), permitted breaks, alternative input devices (Voice Control, Switch Control, eye trackers configured through macOS Accessibility), permitted hearing devices, and approved external assistance for students with reading or writing disabilities. Accommodations are configured by the instructor inside the LMS quiz settings, and LockDown Browser respects the configured time and structure.

What this article does and does not cover

The information in this article is calibrated to the specific topic in its title and is intentionally narrower than a comprehensive guide. We do this because Respondus LockDown Browser on Mac is a large topic with many interacting failure modes; trying to cover everything in every article produces shallow coverage everywhere. Instead, each article in this knowledge base focuses on one well-defined topic and links out to other articles for adjacent questions.

What this article specifically does not cover: it does not document Respondus LockDown Browser on Windows (Windows installations have a different binary, different TCC-equivalent permission system, and different process inventory; our Mac-focused testing does not apply); it does not document Respondus Monitor as an AI behavioural-review product in isolation (Monitor is treated here as an integrated capability of LockDown Browser rather than a standalone product); it does not document general macOS troubleshooting beyond what is necessary to set up or recover from a LockDown Browser issue (Apple's own support documentation is the appropriate reference for general Mac problems).

What this article does cover: the specific topic identified in the title, on macOS Sequoia 15 or Tahoe 26 (the supported macOS branches throughout 2026), with the current shipping LockDown Browser version (2.1.5 throughout most of 2026), on Apple Silicon (M1 through M4) or supported Intel Mac (2018-2020 cohort). For each documented step or recommendation, we identify the macOS subsystem involved (TCC, ScreenCaptureKit, AVCaptureSession, WindowServer) so you can cross-reference with Apple's developer documentation when you need to understand the underlying behaviour rather than just the procedure.

How this fits in the broader landscape of online proctoring

Respondus LockDown Browser is one product in a broader landscape of online-proctoring tools that students encounter throughout an academic career. The landscape stabilised meaningfully between 2020 (the COVID-driven expansion of remote testing) and 2026 (the current state of the market), with five product families serving most students: Respondus LockDown Browser plus Monitor (academic proctoring, US-dominant), Proctorio (academic proctoring, Chrome extension model), Honorlock (academic plus pop-in human proctoring), Safe Exam Browser (open-source, EU and Australia/NZ dominant), and Pearson VUE / OnVUE (high-stakes professional certifications). Examplify (by ExamSoft) sits separately as the dominant tool for state bar exams, medical board exams, and similar high-stakes licensure.

From a student perspective, the differences across these products matter for three reasons. First, what is technically capable of being observed and recorded differs: Monitor captures full session video; SEB does not record video by default. Second, what an instructor or proctor reviews after the exam differs: Respondus is asynchronous AI plus optional human review; Pearson VUE has live human proctors. Third, your rights regarding data access and deletion differ by jurisdiction more than by product: GDPR rights are stronger than US default rights regardless of which product processed the data.

The macOS-specific behaviour for any of these products depends on Apple's standard frameworks (ScreenCaptureKit, AVCaptureSession, TCC). Where this article addresses a Respondus-specific behaviour, the underlying mechanism is usually the same Apple framework that other products use, with Respondus's particular configuration choices being the differentiator. Understanding the Apple framework underneath helps when troubleshooting across products.

How we research and update this article

This article is part of the LDBypass knowledge base on Respondus LockDown Browser for Mac. Our editorial process for every article in this category combines three sources:

Direct testing on Apple Silicon hardware. We reproduce the documented issue on M1, M2, M3 and M4 Macs running the current stable macOS (Sequoia 15 and Tahoe 26 throughout 2026), with the current shipping LockDown Browser version installed from the Respondus distribution URL provided by partner institutions.
Vendor documentation. We cross-reference Respondus' official release notes, the Respondus Help Center, and Apple's macOS support documentation for the relevant macOS subsystem (TCC, ScreenCaptureKit, AVCaptureSession, WindowServer).
Student field reports. Our team includes current and former students who took proctored exams on Mac in 2024-2026; specific failure modes documented here were reproduced or witnessed at named institutions, not synthesised from search-engine sources.

We disclose where information is uncertain or vendor-side rather than user-side, and we update each article when LockDown Browser ships a new release or Apple ships a macOS major version that materially changes the behaviour described.

This article uses AI-assisted drafting under human editorial review. Final wording, factual claims, technical procedures, and recommendations are checked against the sources above before publication.

References and further reading

Respondus LockDown Browser official resources — vendor documentation for current behaviour and known issues.
Apple macOS User Guide: Screen Recording permission — how the TCC permission that LDB requires is granted and reset.
Apple Developer: ScreenCaptureKit — the screen-capture API LDB uses on Mac and the architectural contract for window-sharing flags.
U.S. Department of Education: FERPA — the federal student-records statute governing exam recordings in the US.
GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) — EU framework for requesting deletion of exam recordings.

About this article

LDBypass Editorial. Articles in our LockDown Browser knowledge base are produced by a team that has covered the macOS exam-proctoring landscape since the 2020 expansion of online proctored testing. We maintain a working install of LockDown Browser on at least one Mac of each Apple Silicon generation (M1 through M4) plus a 2019/2020 Intel reference machine, refreshed against current macOS releases and the current shipping LDB version. Our editorial team holds combined backgrounds in macOS systems engineering, higher-education IT, and educational assessment, with members who have taken proctored exams at institutions in the US, EU, and LATAM in the past three years.

Editorial review for this article: reviewed by S. Ortiz (former educational-assessment lead at an R1 US university; current proctored-exam testing lead) on March 3, 2026. Technical claims about macOS subsystems, Respondus product behaviour, and institutional configuration patterns were verified against current vendor documentation, Apple developer reference, and direct testing on our hardware bench. AI-assisted drafting under human editorial review per our methodology.

Corrections and questions can be submitted via the contact channels on our About page. We log every substantive correction with the date of update on the article it affects.

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References

LockDown Browser product documentation. Respondus Inc.. Accessed 2026-05-12.
ScreenCaptureKit framework reference. Apple Developer Documentation. Accessed 2026-05-12.
Privacy & Security on Mac (TCC permissions). Apple Support. Accessed 2026-05-12.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. United States Department of Education. Accessed 2026-05-12.
General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU 2016/679). European Union (EUR-Lex). Accessed 2026-05-12.
GDPR Article 17: Right to erasure. gdpr-info.eu. Accessed 2026-05-12.
Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD), Lei nº 13.709/2018. Presidência da República, Brasil. Accessed 2026-05-12.
Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), 2023. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, India. Accessed 2026-05-12.
LDBypass editorial methodology. LDBypass Editorial. Accessed 2026-05-12.

Frequently asked questions

What LMS does Georgetown Qatar use?

Canvas at canvas.georgetown.edu, on the global Georgetown tenant. GU-Q has a dedicated LibGuide "Up and Running with Canvas LMS" at guides.qatar.georgetown.edu/canvas, tuned for Doha students.

Why does the Respondus Monitor policy say "GU Qatar instructors only"?

Georgetown's Monitor licence is allocated per-department. GU-Q has its own Monitor allocation and its policy warns other Georgetown departments against piggybacking on it because the cost falls on whoever requests it. It does not mean students elsewhere at Georgetown cannot use Monitor; it means GU-Q's instance is paid by GU-Q.

Does the PDPPL apply if Canvas is hosted in the United States?

Yes for data collected in Qatar. Qatar's Law No. 13 of 2016 applies to personal data received, collected, extracted, or processed through electronic means in Qatar regardless of where the cloud server sits. FERPA also applies through Georgetown's US registration. Both frameworks layer on your exam recording.

How do I request extra exam time at GU-Q?

Bring documentation to the Student Wellness & Counseling Center. If approved, the Office of Academic Services (OASQ) writes to your instructor, who applies a per-student override in the Canvas quiz settings. LDB respects the override. Allow 5-10 working days for the letter to reach the instructor.

LDB throws "Session expired" right when I click Begin. Why?

Your DUO push session lapsed during the wait. Quit LDB, complete a fresh DUO push in Safari at canvas.georgetown.edu, then relaunch the Canvas quiz. DUO inside LDB times out faster than inside Safari, which surprises students who walk away between joining the quiz and starting it.

Will Monitor work on my M4 MacBook Pro running Tahoe 26?

Yes. LDB 2.1.5.00 is a universal binary and supports macOS 12 through 26. On first run grant Camera, Microphone, and Screen Recording in System Settings. The Sequoia 15.2 weekly re-prompt for Screen Recording is the most common late-2026 surprise on a 2025 MacBook.