Virtual keyboard Windows 8.1 touch screen Chrome edition

We are running a number of touch enabled Samsung panels with Dell micro PC's attached all have Windows 8.1 installed and have secure lockdown Chrome edition installed. Once secure lockdown is enabled we can not access the virtual keyboard via the touch enabled panels, when clicking in a text field no keyboard appears.
Is there a way to get the virtual keyboard to be displayed when a user touches a text field while secure lockdown is enabled?

For Windows 8.1, the recommended solution is to use a Chrome extension such as "Virtual Keyboard".

When we install the Chrome virtual keyboard extension and then put the PC into lockdown it strips the extension and the virtual keyboard is not available, No extensions is not checked in Chrome lockdown general settings.

Please be sure you're running the latest release of Secure Lockdown (currently build: 2.00.158)