BetterExaminations Online Updates

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
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Question Tagging

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner
We’ve made it easier than ever to keep your Question Banks organised. It’s now possible to Tag items in your question bank so you can organise and find them again in the future. Tags are free text so can be used to tag questions by any
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Question Bank Improvements

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner
We’re delighted to announce we’ve made improvements to how you can manage questions within the question bank. It’s now possible to copy questions between courses to save you having to recreate the same questions more than once! You can now
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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
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Course Roles Are Here!

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner
We’ve heard your feedback and we’re delighted to announce we now give you even more control over roles within BetterExaminations. It’s now possible for users to have different roles in different courses. This closer aligns with the way our
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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
Improvement

Rename your exam sittings

by Dave Larkan, Product Owner
Sometimes you create an exam sitting and then realise you made a mistake. Before now we allowed you to change all the details about a sitting (Like the assigned students, the proctoring rules, the start and end times etc) but we didn’t
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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
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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”
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