A checklist of items your institution needs to consider and create before you can start setting up your first exam.
When creating Exams in invigilatorPlus, your organisation will also need to complete the following items:
Create Departments
Your organisation must create at least one Department. Each Exam belongs to a Department, so it helps to create a Department before creating an Exam.
Create Staff
Information about time zone settings in Staff accounts:Create Terms
Each Exam belongs to a Term, so it helps to create a Term before creating an Exam.
Set rules and policies
Exam rules may affect an Exam’s details and settings so it is helpful to set the rules before creating an Exam. However, you can enter the rules and update the Exam settings after the Exam has been created.
Your existing assessment policy and procedures may need to be examined and revised due to differences between online assessments and onsite, hardcopy assessments.LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)
The LTI allows students to be transferred from the LMS into invigilatorPlus without any additional authentication.
You can start creating Exams on invigilatorPlus without implementing an LTI, but eventually you will need to link your LMS to invigilatorPlus so that students can access invigilatorPlus.
Only Staff with the appropriate invigilatorPlus permissions may implement the LTI.
How to link your LMS to invigilatorPlus using the appropriate LTI:
- Integrating invigilatorPlus with Moodle LMS using LTI 1.1
- Integrating invigilatorPlus with Moodle LMS using LTI 1.3
- Integrating invigilatorPlus with Canvas LMS using LTI 1.1
- Integrating invigilatorPlus with Canvas LMS using LTI 1.3
API
Depending upon your organisation’s needs, you may choose to use the API to batch create exams or the invigilatorPlus application to set up single exams. The following article can help you choose the method best suited to your organisation:
Choosing between the application or API
Find out what batch functions you can perform via API: