Respondus nearly bricked my computer.
So im taking and exam for my online precalc course and it is using Respondus. I already absolutely fucking despise it as it is invasive as hell and this professor decided to use it and make it have room checks which I am extremely uncomfortable with but I compromised and went to my hobby room to use it as I did mot want tk be in my bedroom and have it record anything in there. I open the exam get maybe 10 questions in and then the app just freezes and crashes. It closes and I of course cant open anything including the actual respondus app. I turn computer off and on again and apps open but I cant use or open within anything including task manager. Ctrl+alt+del just gives me the option to lock so I cant even hard restart or fully shut down. I ended up fully panicking over this and pulled the back of my laptop off and took my battery out which thankfully did fix this. I have seen issues where this didn’t fix it for other people and the idea that COULD have happened to me enrages me so much. Mind you my school doesnt even require respondus for anti cheating measure and have taken classes with proctorio which i actually don’t really mind. But respondus is horrible and is a crap program. Anyone having to use respondus should absolutely look for an alternative to use.