How it works and recommendations
SMOWL captures audio through your microphone when it detects noise. To avoid audio capture, here are some recommendations:
Quiet environment: Please make sure you are in a quiet, noise-free place during the exam.
Suitable device: Use a device with good audio and stable internet connection to avoid technical problems during the exam.
Pre-testing: We recommend pre-testing to make sure that your microphone is working properly and that there are no problems with background sound.
Microphone permissions
When you start the activity with SMOWL, the browser will ask you for some permissions to activate your computer's microphone.
In order for SMOWL to access the audio capture, you must allow it to use your microphone.
Si no concedes los permisos en tu navegador, aparecerá un mensaje de alerta como en la siguiente imagen.
In the SMOWL block the icon will appear in red.
We must also make sure that the microphone is working properly, there are many ways to check if your microphone is working, we suggest one of these two.
Test your microphone through this external tool: online mic test
Open the native Windows microphone application and you can test through the app and view the audio waves.
How to check permissions to enable the microphone?
If you are accessing from the CHROME browser, you can enable them as follows.
Click on the option that appears in the URL part of the page and enable the microphone:
The browser will ask you to reload the page.
Once this step is done, the SMOWL block will appear correctly connected, indicating that the microphone is working properly.
