Honorlock

I thought I knew what digital torture was, but this absolute piece of garbage app defies all laws of software engineering and human decency. A 1.3-star rating is an insult to other terrible apps because it implies this thing actually functions on some baseline level, which it profoundly does not. Testing with this app is less of an academic evaluation and more of an exorcism where your phone gets possessed by a demonic entity. It demands angle perfection down to the sub-atomic level, freezes your entire screen the exact second you try to frame your workspace, and then has the absolute audacity to crash, locking you out of your exam while the timer counts down your academic execution. It acts like it’s guarding the Crown Jewels instead of letting someone submit a simple midterm. Using it feels like a deliberate psychological experiment designed to see how close a human being can get to throwing their $1,000 smartphone directly through a drywall. If you love high anxiety, hardware-frying battery drain, and watching your GPA get murdered in real-time, you'll love it. Otherwise, throwing your phone into oncoming traffic sounds infinitely more peaceful.

My experience with Honorlock was extremely frustrating. The app is unnecessarily difficult to navigate. I kept having to back out and start the entire process over again. This should not happen after a user has already completed and passed the required steps. After getting everything cleared FINALLY .. My amazing proctor Walter paused my assessment at question 9/10 and gave his own personal assessment. The way he waited until the last question to tell me tabs were open and to move my external camera to the left .. when clearly everything had already been verified was frustrating and completely unnecessary. The combination of a poorly designed difficult to navigate app and an unpleasant proctoring experience made what should have been a simple 10 question assessment extremely stressful. Thanks A lot!

It’s awful. I understand students cheat but it’s a terrible thing to have students use. It if was better formatted I think I’d love it to prove my honesty. With that said, why is there NO BACK BUTTON. Why do I have to repeat everything if I misclicked or chose the wrong option. Why doesn’t it correctly see me my computer and my keyboard in 1 go? Even if everything is in place?? I had to download this dumb app just to take a test on my computer, WHICH HAS A CAMERA. AND WORKS. I had just scanned the room JUST FINE. But just fix y’all’s app because every time I do homework for this class I have to redo the entire thing atLEAST 5 times before it works. FIX THIS. Teachers don’t wanna use something else for some reason.