Technical Resources

Lockdown Browser and Language Input

Our students often need to use Lockdown Browser to complete tasks.  Typing in a foreign language can be tricky, as accessing the input with a mouse could cause the browser to detect (falsely) cheating and close the window. Here are solutions to prevent.

For Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Swahili, & French languages.

Lockdown browser has built-in diacritical marking input assistance. The lockdown browser has built-in diacritical marks. This is useful for both Windows and Mac users. https://support.respondus.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409604121499-Accents-For-Languages 

If your diacritical marking can not be found, Windows users can find ALT+ methods seen below on this page or follow the link - https://altcodeunicode.com/ . Mac users, long-press the character you need the accent or refer to this page - https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/accents-emoji-and-special-characters-tanec2c2fdfd/mac . 

For Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Korean, & Japanese

Since Lockdown Browser will assume you are cheating when you try to change the language input with a mouse, you need to be able to switch between the languages with the keyboard.

Windows 11 - Students MUST use the floating language bar. First, install the language, then follow the directions here. https://www.webnots.com/language-bar-missing-in-taskbar-here-is-how-to-enable-in-windows-11/

Windows 10 - Students MUST use the floating language bar. First, install the language, then follow the directions here. https://baylor.box.com/s/mc311qvt2os084bpfqmdo0vo5vwkn252

Mac - Students MUST toggle the language with the "keyboard shortcut." First, install the language, then follow the directions here. https://baylor.box.com/s/008eb79u953vyzubdu9l6iute0ua0y8o 

Typing Diacritical Markings in European Languages

Mac

Long hold a character key in which you want to put an accent. For example, to get the character "á," long hold "a." You will find "a" with multiple diacritical markings. Choose the appropriate character. 

For other special characters, see the following image. For example, to type "«", use option+\. 

Option

Shift-Option

Windows

To type accents and/or special characters with ALT codes, hold down the ALT key, then on the numeric keypad (not the row of numbers across the top of your keyboard) type the three or four digits listed here. When you release the ALT key, the character will appear.

FRENCH

For Windows

GERMAN

For Windows

ITALIAN

For Windows

PORTUGUESE

For Windows

SPANISH

For Windows