BetterExaminations Online Updates

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Improved Marking Features

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

We’ve now made it easier than ever to override marks that were assigned automatically. You may have noticed a misconfiguration of the original question, or realised the answer submitted is actually worth a different score than was auto

Rename Users via the User Interface

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

Sometimes users and students names change. Other times, users are just created with a typo in their name. We’ve now made dealing with modifying a user easier than ever. Admin users now have the ability to modify a user and change the Family

Last Login Details for Users and Students

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

We’ve made it easier for you to see when a user or student has last logged in to BetterExaminations. When listing students or users we’ll now let you know how long it has been since that user has last logged in. If you hover over the

SSO Improvements and Authentication Type Tags

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

We’ve made a few changes to authentication which should make the lives of your support teams a lot easier. We’ve now simplified the process of logging out of BetterExaminations when you have authenticated via Single Sign On. We’ve also

Inactive Courses Are Now Hidden By Default

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

When listing courses you really just want to see what courses are running right now. We’ve made this simpler by hiding all non-active courses by default. But don’t worry, if you need to see them you can still switch the new “Show inactive”

Improvements to the student experience when starting exams

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

Sometimes when a student starts an exam, things can go wrong. Most commonly the student experiences some kind of temporary drop in internet connectivity. In some very rare cases we may get an error returned from our servers due to a

Sticky scoring and marking

We’ve made some improvements to how scores are displayed when marking questions. We heard your feedback that when questions get very long it can be tricky to find where to enter your scores when you’re marking an exam. We’ve improved this

Improved Manual User Management in Courses

For customers that manually manage users in courses we’ve added some improvements to make life a bit easier. Users with the appropriate permissions will now be shown a simplified table by default that lists only the users assigned to the

Improved Email Invites

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner

Some users have reported that newly received account creation emails are showing as expired. This seems to be affecting a small number of users using Microsoft Outlook as their email client. We've modified our invite emails to attempt...