Along with the comprehensive guide, we have included some important videos, and webinars to guide you along the way.
Steps
Step 1: Creating Your Exam Paper
Before you begin on EP you should have your Exam pre-prepared with Questions and Assessment Schedule ready to go – including all resources, images and audio/video files needed
Then use your My Content (private) or My Schools Content (shared with Teachers) space in the Library to create your own Exam.
Language teachers should pre cut or compress their audio to under 10mb sized parts using Audacity or another audio tool before creating their exam.
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Step 2: Class Management and Enrolment
Teachers, HODs and exam managers should check the classes all exist in EP and are correct and up to date. If classes do not exist in EP for any exams they should be enrolled using the schools normal EP enrolment method
Schools should check all Exam managers have EP teacher accounts so they can access all classes.
School should check all teachers who will be involved from building and running exams to invigilating have access
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Step 3: Assigning your Exam to class/es
When your exam is created and tested, use Assessments to Assign to the cohort or class/es that will be sitting it. Use Options and Time to craft the exact exam parameters needed over the entire exam week. Consider all SACs required.
If using Safe Exam Browser - get students to pre-download and install the application, and recommend teachers to set a Practice question and do a run through before the actual exams.
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Step 4: Monitoring the Exam
Add any invigilators to EP with accounts and show them + teachers how to find the class in Classes > All Classes, or in Assessments. Use Monitor tab alongside normal school invigilation procedures, and any other monitoring software.
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Step 5: Marking and Exporting
Exams can be marked within EP or exported and marked externally. All student responses and data can also be exported.
To mark or export students answers; go into the Assessment and select the Responses tab, then you can use Begin Marking to mark within EP (guide below), or you can use the “Export as pdf” to get a zip file of each students response emailed to you for marking outside of EP or submitting as an external.
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Step 6: Data and Insights
Only for Exams marked in EP.
Data reports are available and data can be exported as excel spreadsheets for uploading into school report systems and for post-processing.
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