Previewing the question set

Checking what your question set will look like is primarily done by previewing the question set as a student. (What is a question set?) Depending on your role in relation to the assessment, you can preview the question set from: 

From the Deliver tab, click on the name of the test you want to preview and you will see the eye icon in the top right hand corner of the screen.

 

Eye icon in Inspera

Eye icon in Inspera

 

When you click on the eye icon it will open up another Inspera tab where you will see the question set laid out as the student will see it in the test. Please note that you will only be able to do this if you have the planner role.  

To view the question set from Grade, navigate to the ‘options’ button in the top right hand corner of the screen. Click on the small arrow, navigate down to ‘Question set’, hover over this and you will then see three options. Click on ‘View as candidate’, and this will open up the question set in a new Inspera tab.

 

Steps to take to 'view as candidate'

Steps to take to 'view as candidate'

To view the question set from Author, navigate to the eye icon in the top right hand corner of the screen within the question set. Click on the eye and this will open a new window which displays how the question set will look to the student. This is the way to check before the question set is attached to the test by the Digital Exams Team.

Eye icon in Inspera

Eye icon in Inspera

New to Inspera?

If you're new to Inspera, you may want to preview the full, end-to-end student experience of submitting work in Inspera. You can do so by adding yourself as a 'one-time user' to an Inspera test. (What is an Inspera test?)

Before you do so, please be aware that:

  1. If you add a one-time user to a test which you have activated for your students, that one-time user may appear as a non-submitter in subsequent administrative processes. Any responses you submit as the 'one-time user' will also be visible to examiners marking the test in Inspera. 
  2. Once a candidate has started an Inspera test, that test can no longer be edited. This is therefore not the best way to check your test for errors, you should instead preview the question set as described above and check carefully the test settings you have selected (the start date, time etc.). Alternatively, create a separate test to the one you intend to make live for your students.

How to add one-time users in Inspera

When editing a test in the Deliver tab, navigate down the page to the section showing the number of candidates enrolled on your test. Select the orange ‘Manage’ button next to the number of candidates.

 

Manage button in Inspera

Manage button in Inspera

 

Click the orange 'Add' button and select ‘One-time users'. 

 

Selecting one time users from dropdown in Inspera

Selecting one time users from dropdown in Inspera

 

Next select the option to ‘auto-generate candidates’. It will ask you how many logins you want to create.

Press ‘save’ and close that screen.

When you have activated your test, you'll see an orange button labelled 'candidate login details'. This will provide you with the username(s) and password(s) for logging in as the one-timer users you added. You can save these details as a PDF or download a CSV file. 

 

Candidate login details button in Inspera

Candidate login details button in Inspera

 

To log in as one of the 'one-time users', log out of Inspera, go to ‘https://oxford.inspera.com/’ (the student tab should be selected, rather than the admin tab). Don’t log in using the multi-factor authentication. Instead, enter the username and password of the dummy student in the ‘or with registered user’ option.

 

The student login view of Inspera

The student login view of Inspera

 

You can now complete the full assessment as if you were a student. When you log back into oxford.inspera.com/admin, you will be able to see any work you submitted while logged in as a 'one-time user'. 

 

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