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February 28, 2012
SEB MacOSX 1.5.2 is now also available in the Mac App Store.
February 20, 2012
SEB Windows 1.8.2 fixes a bug: Reloading / Refreshing the current page in the browser window by pressing the F5 key did not work. Now it is possible, provided that the F5 key is admitted. The new default setting for the F5 key is therefore "enabled".
February 13, 2012
SEB Windows 1.8.1 fixes two bugs:
1.) Clicking on the SEB icon of the user's desktop in some cases launched the SEB installer rather than the actual SEB application. Now the SEB installer creates a shortcut to the SEB application on the common desktop. Thus the SEB icon and shortcut are visible to all users, and clicking on this icon launches the SEB application as intended.
2.) When finishing, SEB restored the default registry values for Task Manager etc. (on the blue Windows Security Screen). Now, SEB instead restores the previous registry values (= the values before SEB was started).
January 31, 2012
SEB MacOSX 1.5 supports additional browser windows and improves integrity of the SEB environment by elevating all SEB windows on a higher windows level, improving suppression of other applications opening alert windows, requesting to become active and switch to foreground. New security features include clearing the clipboard, blocking browsing forward/backward, preventing possible security holes in Flash content, offering fine grade settings for opening and blocking links in new browser windows and in addition the upload of files edited in third party applications was made easier and more secure.
December 22, 2011
SEB Windows 1.8 easens the configuration for the teacher. It is now possible to do the configuration in a new GUI editor called SebWindowsConfig.exe using mouse clicks, without directly editing the initialisation files SebStarter.ini and MsgHook.ini. The file format of these ini files has been simplified and is now better human-readable. In addition to the full version of SEB (installation via .msi file), a classic portable version can be built (copying of a zip file without installation), which has less functionality.
November 14, 2011
SEB MacOSX 1.4.1 fixes two bugs when when running on OS X 10.7.2 Lion.
November 7, 2011
In the Safe Exam Browser Workshop at ETH Zurich, mainly technical aspects about using SEB were discussed. You can find the presentations in German language here.
September 12, 2011
SEB MacOSX 1.4 easens the deployment of the application including an individual configuration. The adapted preferences can be written into the application bundle. Then the modified application can be distributed on all exam Mac's and will start up with the right settings (Start URL, passwords etc).
August 25, 2011
SEB Windows 1.7 easens the configuration and deployment for the teacher. It is now possible to modify the configuration files before rather than after installation, so the students can directly install SEB without patching it by additional configuration files after installation. Also, an Administrative Install via network is now possible. Downloading a zip file, as in former SEB versions up to 1.4.1.
July 19, 2011
Safe Exam Browser 1.3.1 for Mac OS X is now available to download from this site and the Mac App Store. Install this version for better compatibility with the soon to be expected OS X 10.7 Lion.
July 18, 2011
Now you can subscribe to the SEB news also as a RSS feed, so you won't miss any new program versions in future.
July 6, 2011
SEB Windows 1.6.1 simplifies the configuration. The ini files and log files are now located in the program data directory (Windows 7) or in the common application data directory (Windows XP), respectively. See user documentation.
June 30, 2011
The latest versions of SEB for Windows and Mac OS X can detect if they were started in a virtual instead of a native environment and refuse to start up. This VM Detector hinders manipulating SEB when used in unmanaged environments.
SEB Windows 1.6 is multilingual (German, English, French menus and error messages) based upon the current user default input language and contains further usability refinements, the VM Detector and improvements in the built-in XULRunner browser.
SEB MacOSX 1.3 features the VM Detector and enhanced compatibility with OS X 10.7 Lion.
June 16, 2011
Safe Exam Browser 1.2.1 is now also available in the Mac App Store, the online shop from Apple for Mac software. From there SEB can be downloaded for free and automatically installed (you need to use a current Mac OS X and have a Apple ID). Future SEB updates can be easily installed through the Mac App Store. SEB MacOSX will of course still be available on this website too.
June 3, 2011
In SEB MacOSX 1.2 down- and uploading can be allowed. Downloaded files can be opened automatically. This is useful when running additional applications during an exam in a separate, managed OS X user account.
May 12, 2011
SEB Windows 1.5.1 further simplifies SEB installation by automatically starting the Windows Service at the end of the installation (no computer reboot or manual start of Windows Service as administrator required anymore).
April 30 2011
SEB MacOSX 1.1 features a new preferences window with panes, which offers additional configuration options. It is now possible to run additional applications during an exam together with SEB MacOSX.
April 29 2011
The user documentation and other information about SEB for Windows and Mac OS X on the SEB website have been revised and are completely translated to German.
April 28, 2011
SEB Windows 1.5 has been released. Its main feature is a new Windows Service component, which enables also Windows 7 to successfully suppress the Task Manager etc.
March 31, 2011
The SEB MacOSX source code has been released. Please see the developer manual for information about the architecture of Safe Exam Browser for Mac OS X, about getting the SEB and WebKit sources, linking the components and how to build SEB. In addition how to localize SEB for other languages.
March 25, 2011
In SEB MacOSX 1.0.2 French localization has been added. Alerts (including browser error messages), text and buttons in preferences window (including tool tips) are displayed in French when SEB is started on a Mac OS X system set to French language.
March 24, 2011
SEB has been presented at the eduhub days 2011 in Lugano. The national meeting of e-learning executives, support center leaders and members of the Swiss eLearning Community gave an ideal plattform to discuss with professionals existing and possible future use of SEB at their institutions. We also discussed some future features of SEB and got feedback about what professional users think about the further development of SEB.
February 9, 2011
SEB was demonstrated at the Workshop E-Assessment at ETH Zurich. Besides a tutorial how to use SEB, enhancements planed in the new project SEB2012 were presented and community questions answered. Here can find the presentations in German language.
January 26, 2011
New SEB version 1.3.4 and SEB version 1.4.1 eliminate a potential problem regarding write permissions of the logfile. Since the logfile functionality was contained in both the Portable Firefox version 1.3.3 and the XULRunner version 1.4, both versions were replaced by the new bugfixed versions.
January 18, 2011
New SEB version 1.4 is based on XULRunner rather than on Portable Firefox.
December 23, 2010
In SEB MacOSX 1.0.1 German localization has been added. Alerts (including browser error messages), text and buttons in preferences window (including tool tips) are displayed in German when SEB is started on a Mac OS X system set to German language.
December 22, 2010
New SEB version 1.3.3 adds logfile functionality (set the variable LOG_FILE in Seb.ini).
December 14, 2010
The general release of stable version SEB MacOSX 1.0 brings many improvements in security and usability.
December 2, 2010
Structure of the SEB website has been rebuild to improve access to information for both system architectures SEB is available for now (Windows and MacOSX). Visual appearance and navigation has also been improved. The SEB demo movie now can be watched as MP4 or Flash movie.
October 30, 2010
The first release candidate RC1.0 for the stable version of SEB MacOSX is released.
September 13 - 15, 2010
SEB is presented at GMW'10 in Zurich. The yearly congress of the society for scientists and professionals in the field of digital media use in universities and other higher education institutions was reflecting about the use of media in research and teaching.
September 7, 2010
New SEB version 1.3.2 bugfixes problems when starting up SEB version 1.3
August 19, 2010
The first beta version of SEB MacOSX is released.
July 22, 2010
After it got evident that XULRunner cannot be embedded under Mac OS X while maintaining kiosk mode locking of the system, it was decided to use the WebKit browser rendering engine for SEB on Mac OS X instead of XULRunner/Mozilla Gecko. A first beta version of SEB for Mac OS X will be released soon.
July 15, 2010
New SEB version 1.3 also supports Windows 7.
April 7, 2010
Safe Exam Browser has been presented at Netzwerk E-Learning at Zürcher Fachhochschule.
March 24 and 25, 2010
Safe Exam Browser has been presented at OpenExpo 2010 in Berne.
March 17, 2010
User documentation improved, mainly the ambiguous explanation of shortkeys to quit SEB. A new table shows how the function keys are coded in MsgHook.ini to define the SEB exit sequence.
March 2, 2010
Daniel Schneider joins the SEB team. He is mainly responsible for porting SEB to Mac OS X.
January 12, 2010
Dirk Bauer joins the SEB team, mainly being responsible of improving SEB and porting it to Windows 7.
January 1, 2010
The AAA/Switch Project for further development of the Safe Exam Browser starts.
April 29, 2009
Safe Exam Browser in combination with Moodle is presented in the eLearningForum at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
April 1, 2009
Safe Exam Browser is presented at Open Expo Berne.
March 19, 2009
Safe Exam Browser has been successfully introduced to the Moodle Community at Moodlemoot 2009 in Bamberg by Thomas Korner.
The presentation is available here (registration required).
February 20, 2009
Safe Exam Browser has been downloaded more than 1000 times so far.
January 15, 2009
The project Safe Exam Browser will attend the ILIAS Forum at Learntec 2009 in Karlsruhe on February 4.
January 8, 2009
The first exam in computing labs at the ETH Zurich with SEB has been carried out successfully.
December 1, 2008
Extensions fitting the Learning Management Systems Moodle and ILIAS are now available.