Hi Craig

In answer to your questions:

1) Do you encourage ‘shifts’ where cohorts sit the exam in shifts throughout the day to space out numbers?
The largest cohorts we tend to have are around 180 candidates, we split them across 3 computer clusters and restrict access(using ip address) to just those clusters for the period the exam is running.

2) Do you have any specific policies in your examination regulations about online exams (e.g. policies around network failure, technical issues etc)
Yes we do, so for example, if a student’s PC fails we will move them once (and add a small amount of time) a second failure will normally result in the student reverting to a paper script.

3) Do you ‘lock down’ your PC’s during examinations (we are testing Impero and would be happy to share our findings)

We deploy an e-assessment desktop during the exams which allows us to restrict student access to a range of options such as the Internet, various programs and their home drives.

The on-line exams are run in partnership between the Exams Office, IT Services, Disability Advisory and Support Service and E-Learning and all four devote considerable resources to it. During the recent January exams period we ran 25 on-line exams with a total of over 870 different papers all of which submitted successfully.

I hope this helps

Duncan

Duncan Greaves. Assistant eLearning Manager, Faculty. eLearning Team (FeLT). Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. Room 3.35, Simon Building. Tel: 0161 306 0456

From: Diane Bennett
Sent: 26 February 2016 11:09
To: Duncan Greaves
Subject: FW: Online Examination Guidance

Do you want to respond?  Or Neil may do?

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Wakefield
Sent: 26 February 2016 11:06
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Subject: Online Examination Guidance

Apologies for cross posting….

We are currently investigating how to best support our growing number of online examinations (usually using Blackboard). At some of our sites, we do not have large enough computer pool rooms to cater for all students in a cohort (e.g. 200 students) which results in multiple rooms being utilised at any one time, stretching technical staff.

I wondered if anyone would share their experiences of how they cater for large scale computer based examinations? Specifically:

1) Do you encourage ‘shifts’ where cohorts sit the exam in shifts throughout the day to space out numbers?

2) Do you have any specific policies in your examination regulations about online exams (e.g. policies around network failure, technical issues etc)

3) Do you ‘lock down’ your PC’s during examinations (we are testing Impero and would be happy to share our findings)

Many thanks in advance

Craig Wakefield

Learning Technologies Adviser

University of Brighton (Eastbourne Campus)

Tel: 01273 64 (4112)

Mob: 07964431090

Twitter: @craig_wakefield

Blog: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearning/

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