Eazy Eval

Exam Scheduler

Before conducting an examination using the Eazy Eval Environment, the examination should be configured and the "Exam Scheduler" window provides the user with this functionality. The steps involved in the scheduling of an examination are explained below.

The The Exam Scheduler Screen

• Provide a name for the examination. The exam name should be unique.
• Type in a description for the examination.
• From the Question Paper list, select the question paper which you want to use with this exam. The Question paper list will contain all the question papers into which the current user has access permission.
• Using the Exam duration time control, set the desired time interval for the exam.
• Usually, when an examination is configured for future access, the candidate can attend it at any later time. If you want to impose time-based restrictions, on the date & time before which the exam should be attempted, then the "Valid From" and "Valid To" Options can be used. If an examination is configured using these two values, then that exam can be accessed only during the time slot provided by these values.
• Select the various configuration options available for the current exam.
  
  The different options that are provided are:

  Allow Navigation - If this option is selected, the candidate will have the permission of navigating between the questions while attempting an exam. i.e, the candidate can go back and forth between the questions and answer them according to his choice. Selecting this option will remove the restriction of attempting questions in a forward only order.

  Allow Modification - If this option is selected, then the candidate is allowed to make changes to questions that are already answered. If this option is disabled then each question will get locked the moment the candidate answers them and they are not permitted to change the answers. So if you want to make your exams to have such a restriction, then don't select this option

  Allow Skip - This option controls whether a candidate can navigate to the next question, without answering the current question. If this option is selected, then candidates can leave a question unanswered. If this option is selected, then the candidate is not allowed to navigate from a question without answering it.

  Shuffle Questions - This option enables the shuffling of questions while displaying a question paper during an examination. Shuffling ensures that questions are displayed in a randomly picked order. If more than one candidate is attempting the same question paper at the same time, then shuffling can be used to make certain that the order in which the questions appear for each candidate are different.

  Shuffle Options - This option can be used to randomize the order in which the options for each question are displayed. If this option is selected then each of the questions which support option shuffling will be presented with their options all arranged in a random order.

  Negative Points - If you want to implement negative points to an exam then select this option.
  
  The steps involved in implementing negative points in Eazy Eval environment are:

  • Choose between "Negation in Points" and "Negation in Percentages" from the "Negation In" panel. If "Negation in Points" is selected, then negative marks will be deducted in the form of points and if "Negation in Percentages" is selected, then negative marks are calculated using a percentage of the point carried by a question.
  • Select the way in which negative mark is to be implemented, i.e. same point or percentage of negation for each question, or different points or percentages for each questions.
  
  
  If you want to implement the same amount of negative mark to all the questions in an examination, then select the "Same for All" option from the "Negation Mark" Panel and then type in a desired amount of negative mark to be applied to each question.

  If you want to set individual amount of negative marks to each questions, then select the "Individual Marks" option. Now the required negative mark for each question has to be provided and for doing this please refer the section Implementing Individual Negative marks & Individual Question Time which is given at the end of this Topic.

  Time Lock - If you need to implement a maximum answering time for each of the questions involved in an examination, then this feature can be used. In normal cases, Eazy Eval Environment places no restriction on the amount of time that can be spend on answering a question while attempting an examination. The time restriction is placed for the entire examination only. The Time Lock option implements restrictions on the amount of time that can be spend on individual questions, and these timings can be set in 2 different ways. The restriction can be the same amount of time for each question, or different answering time for each questions.
  
  If you want to implement the same amount of answering time to all the questions in an examination, then select the "Same for All" option from the "Question Time" Panel and then type in a desired amount of answering time to be applied to each question.
  
  If you want to set individual amount of answering time to each questions, then select the "Individual Time" option. Now the required answering time for each question has to be provided and for doing this please refer the section Implementing Individual Negative marks & Individual Question Time which is given at the end of this Topic.

  Animated Assistant - The animated assistant provides the candidate with an audio response option while attempting an examination. In exams configured with Animated Assistant, the candidate is provided with options for listening to the questions and answers in an aural way.

  Training Mode - This option when selected, will configure an examination as a training assessment. Exams configured in this mode can be attempted more than one time and options are provided in this mode the candidate to lookup the answer of a question during attempting the mock exam. This mode is suitable for repeated preparation purposes

  The various Presets Explained

  For ease of access the configuration options comes in 4 different preset settings. Select a Setting from the "Preset Settings" panel in the "Exam Settings" tab.
  
  The available preset settings are explained here.

  
  

  1. Easy Mode

  
  The Easy Mode Configuration

  Here, Options like "Allow Navigation", "Allow Modification" and "Allow Skip" are selected by the Eazy Eval system and all other options except "Animated Assistant" and "Training Mode" are locked. This mode is suitable for configuring exams without Negative mark and Time based locks.

  2. Medium Mode

  
  The Medium Mode Configuration

  Here, Options like "Allow Navigation", "Shuffle Questions", "Shuffle Options" and "Allow Skip" are selected by the Eazy Eval system and all other options except "Animated Assistant" and "Training Mode" are locked. This mode is suitable for configuring exams without Negative mark, Modification restrictions and Time based locks.

  3. Strict Mode

  
  The Strict Mode Configuration

  This mode is suitable for configuring exams with all the restrictions imposed. In this mode, the navigation options are not selected and the options like "Allow Skip", "Shuffle Questions" and "Shuffle Options" are selected. If needed the user is permitted to change these options in the Strict Mode. The Negative Mark and Time Lock are imposed by default in this mode and they cannot be removed.

  4. Custom Mode

  
  The Custom Mode Configuration

  This mode permits the user to select any of the combinations from all the available configuration options. The user is allowed to impose any of the restrictions according to his wish in this mode.

• Implementing Individual Negative marks & Individual Question Time
  
  

  
  Individual Negative marks & Individual Question Time

  This step is necessary only if Individual Negative marks and Individual Question Time are configured for an examination. In normal cases, the "Question Settings" tab lists all the questions included in the question paper selected for the exam along with the point carried by each question. If you have selected "Individual Marks" in the "Negation Mark" panel or "Individual Time" in the "Question Time" panel, then this tab will list all the questions in the selected question paper along with the points and a provision for typing Answering time and negative mark for each question.
• The last step involved in the scheduling process of an examination is to add one or more candidates to the exam. An examination can be scheduled for multiple candidates and each of them can attend the exam using the unique exam code generated for each of the candidates.

  
  Candidate settings

  
  
  The steps involved in adding a candidate to the exam is:

  1. Select one or more candidate group from the Candidate Group list box. This list box displays all the candidate groups into which the current user has permission.

  2. The "candidates in selected groups" grid displays all the candidates contained in the selected candidate groups. Select the needed candidates by double clicking on each of the row or by using the "Add" or "Add All" buttons. All the selected candidates are added to a grid named "Candidates selected for exam". You can remove a candidate from this grid by double clicking a row or using the "Remove" or "Remove All" buttons.

Now the exam can be stored in to the Eazy Eval system using the "Save" button. This button will store the currently configured exam into the data bank and a message like the one displayed below will be displayed.

Exam Code Details

The "Edit" button will load a list of all the exams to which the current user has access permissions in to a grid.

Scheduled Exams

You can load an exam for making any changes by double clicking on a row or selecting a row and pressing the "Edit" button.

The editing of an examination is controlled by certain criteria's and they are explained below.

1. Ongoing examinations are locked and they cannot be edited. You will be prompted by a message, when an attempt is made to edit such an exam.

2. An examination, which is attempted at least once, can be edited only partially. All other options except "Candidate Settings" and "Valid To" will be locked and they cannot be edited. For such examinations, you can allot new candidates and can remove existing candidates, if they haven't attempted the exam.

The "Delete" button can be used to permanently remove an existing exam from the Eazy Eval System.