HUJI2023/24

General

1. • In flex courses: A Moed and Time limit.
     A user is considered to have an exam at the current time if he has registered to take an exam in that course/moed and and it is not more than an hour after his registration time, or he has already begin the exam that day, and the exam Time limit has not elapsed.
     The exam Time limit can be overridden
   • In other courses: An Opening time and either a Closing time or a Time limit.
     A user is considered to have an exam at the current time if there is an exam in a course to which he is enrolled as a student, and it is not more than the Start delay after the exam Opening time, or he has already begin the exam that day, and the exam finishing time or Time limit has not elapsed.
     The exam Opening time, Closing time and Time limit can all be overridden
2. A network restriction (i.e. Require subnets must be set)
   Require subnets can be a combination of IPs, IP ranges, rooms and WIFIs
   (A room or WIFI is effectively a list of IPs. EXAM Moodle knows about most rooms that are used for exams on the various HUJI campuses. The only WIFI currently supported is exams-test.)
   A user is considered to have an exam at the current location if Require subnets is set and his IP complies with it.
   Unlike in regular Moodle, Require subnets can be overridden.
   Note: If, for whatever reason, a network restriction cannot be set then a password must be set instead.

How is EXAM Moodle different to regular Moodle?

• There is no option to Remember username
• If the IP is in a known room, or an a known WIFI, the name of the room or WIFI is shown
• If the IP is in a room, or an a WIFI, for which there is a pre-configured SEB key, a warning is shown if the version of SEB is incorrect, or the SEB key is incorrect or not the current version.
• If the SEB key is correct, there is a Quit SEB link. If the SEB key is not the current version, there is a Try to quit SEB link
• There are links to:
  • The Exams released for review login page.
  • The Manage my files login page.
  • EXAM Moodle of the following year, if available, or the previous year

• In the Course settings:
  • All irrelevant options are hidden
  • There is a Force editor option. Used to force the use of TinyMCE in exams that require auto wordcount
  • Besides that, only Force language and Access key for test users can be changed
  • Section Test users is renamed Local users and includes an option to set the Access key for proctors.
    It includes also an option to display a QRcode which logs the user in to EXAM Moodle and allows him to proctor the course. See below

• Five additional roles exist at system and course levels: Extension 25%, 40%, 50% and 100%, and Audition
  A student with one of the Extension roles automatically gets an extension on the default Time limit and Closing time and also on any Group override, Time limit and Closing time.
  Such students are everywhere marked with a small superscript e.g ²⁵.
  A student with the Audition role sees the audio players even if Hide audio players is enabled
• Teachers and TAs see only IDs - not names, emails or pictures. This can be waived by assigning the secondary role of Unrestricted
  They can search the exam Grades and Responses reports by ID prefix.
• There are HelpDesk and TomaETest exempt roles. See next questions and the Roles miniguide

• Similarly, show all exams of a particular student
• Allow a student who missing starting on time, to start (within an hour of the time he was allowed to start)
• Allow a student extra time during the exam or after it was submitted (within an hour of the time it was submitted)
• Exempt a student from using TomaETest

• Use the HelpDesk tool
• Manage User overrides
• View the Participants page and assign the TomaETest exempt role
• View, but not edit, the exam Settings page
• View the Grades report
• View active attempts only i.e. real attempts (not previews or attempts of test users) which have not yet finished or should have finished
• View the TomaETest dashboard

How do EXAM Moodle exam pages differ from regular Moodle quiz pages?

• General
  • Type of exam:  Quiz or Assignment
  • Name:  Not seen by students (except when more than one exam is available)
  • CourseAdmin assignment name:  CSE courses only. Used for grading using CourseAdmin penalties
  • Instructions:  Shown at start of exam and in popup that can be opened during the exam
• Exam settings
  • Active exam:  The exam is available only if enabled
  • Restrict to group/s:  If set, only members of the chosen groups (and users with a User override) can take the exam
  • Disable extensions: If enabled, both global and local extensions are ignored. See below. Advanced option
  • Moed:  Used together with the course name to name the exam
  • Supplementary documentation:  A file that can be opened in a popup during the exam
  • Enable Chat:  If enabled, a Chat box appears below the quiz navigation block. See below.
  • Allow access to private files:  Currently available only in the Law school. See below.
• Timing
  • Opening time:  Required. Time at which students can authenticate and - unless a Starting time is set - start the exam
  • Start delay:  Exam must be started within this interval of the Opening time. Default is 1 hour for flex courses and 15 minutes for others. Advanced option if default.
  • Starting time:  Time before which exam cannot be started. Advanced option unless set
• Time limit: Either a Time limit or a Closing time is required. The exam cannot continue past midnight.
• Closing time:  If set, it should be no later than the Time limit plus the Start delay after the Opening time. Advanced option unless set

• Allow students to reopen attempts:  Useful if an extension is granted after attempts have finished

• Grade using:  Assignment or TomaGrade

• New page
• Navigation method:  If set to Sequential, the student cannot move on to next page before he has answered all the questions on the current page.
• Shuffle sections:  Shuffle order of sections is shuffled. If enabled, edit options Keep the highest and Max questions to grade are not available
• Show save button:  Useful if there are essay questions or pages with many questions.
  See section Quiz autosave of Is there an autosave feature? in the FAQ for teachers for how it interacts with autosave.
• Hide audio players  If enabled, only students with the role of Audition see the audio players. Also, audio can be toggled in Preview

• Shuffle within questions:  Additonal option Yes, if shuffled in question

• Release grades to students:  If enabled, students can review their attempt. One can optionally set a window of time.
• Appeal subnets:  IPs from which attempts can be reviewed
• Show marks and grades:
• Quiz only:
  • Questions to show:  All questions, Only answered questions, Only answered questions that did not get full marks......
  • Answers to show in Multichoice and Cloze questions:  All answers, All answers but no indication of correct answer, Only chosen answer, Only chosen answer and correct answer
  Note: One cannot review questions that were Disqualified. See below
• Show feedback: 

• Require password:
• Require subnets:  Multiselect menu of rooms and WIFI networks in the various campuses that are used for exams plus a textfield for additional IPs
• Browser security:  Classic Require use of Safe Exam Browser and custom Require use of Safe Exam Browser with HUJI Exam Browser Key. (Section Safe exam browser is not shown.)
• Declaration of honesty:  Per-faculty default decalarations. Declaration is configurable. Signature is optional
• Enable Originality:
• Enable TomaETest proctoring:

• For a Quiz:
  • For each quiz section, one can set
    • Max questions to grade: If the student answers more than that number of questions, he is graded only on that number of questions, in the order of his layout.
      All further questions that he answered are marked as Disqualified
      Questions with a grade of zero are ignored.
      Disqualified questions are not included in overall grade, averages or statistics and the student does not see them in his review.
      
    • Keep the highest: If more than this number of questions are graded, only this number of questions - the ones with the highest marks - are included in the overall grade
    Of course, these options make sense only if all questions in the section with a non-zero grade are of equal value.
    Also, Keep the highest (if set) must be less than Max questions to grade (if set) and both must be less than the number of questions in the section.
    Any attempt to set any other value will be ignored.
• For an Assignment:
  This is simply the edit page of an Essay question, preconfigured and without all irrelevant headings and options. Thus the Teacher requires no knowledge of creating questions.
  The Response options depend on whether Grade using is set to TomaGrade or Assignment

• • The Group override pages warns that it is usually preferable to use the Restrict to group/s setting of the exam settings rather than a Group override.
    If Restrict to group/s is set, it warns that the Group override will apply only to students who are also member of those groups
  • The User override page warns that it overrides the Exam's Restrict to group/s setting
• Start within, Require subnets (rooms/WIFIs and/or IPs) and Browser security can also be overridden
• The student must be selected before opening the User override page.
• The User override page lists the Closing times and Time limits that the student would receive by virtue of his Extension role (if any) and Group overrides (if any).
• Time fields are fully validated, as on the Exam settings page
• If extra time has been given using the Extend selected attempts button, or the Allow extra time feature of the exams.php utility, a log of changes since the start of the attempt is shown
• During an exam, there is a utility on the Group override page for creating a group consisting of students currently taking the exam in one of the allowed rooms or subnets.

• The Edit exam link leads directly to the edit page of an Essay question. See above
• There are buttons, enabled as appropriate,:
  • Prepare attempts for grading: Exports attempts to a real Assignment.See below
  • When Grade using is set to TomaGrade:
    • Upload to TomaGrade:  Uploads attempts to TomaGrade
    • Save grades:  Imports grades and links to the TomaGrade graded assignments
    When Grade using is set to Assignment
    • Grade attempts:  Redirects to the grading page of the real Assignment
    • Save grades:  Imports grade and feedback back from the real Assignment

• Column Time limit shows the time limit taking into account whether the student has an Extension role (see below) and/or a Group overide or User override).
  For exams that are already finished, it shows the time limit that was in effect during the attempt.
• In addition to the Overall average row, there is also a Standard deviation row.
  Both do not take into account Disqualified and Unanswered questions
• Disqualified and Unanswered questions are distinguished from Incorrect answers
• Quiz only: If there are any Essay questions in the exam, link Grade essays (below each link Review attempt) opens a page for grading all the essays in the attempt.
  The page is similar to the Manual grading page, but is per exam attempt rather than per question.
  It can be toggled to show all questions - not just essays.
  It can also be toggled to hide the question text i.e. to show just the responses
• There is a link just below the Regrade buttons to a view of the log report which includes only regrades of individual attempts (or question attempts).
  Allows one to ascertain whether there is any regrading currently in progress.
• Checkbox Use current version alongside the regrade buttons ensures that regrading uses the current version of questions (as opposed to the versions that were used when the quiz was attempted.)
  (Not needed, unless one of the Save as new version buttons was used on one of the questions.)
• There are Submit selected attempts and Unsubmit selected attempts buttons in addition to the Regrade selected attempts and Delete selected attempts buttons.
• There is an Extend selected attempts button with an accompanying time field:
  If an attempt has not yet timed out (i.e is in progress or was submitted early), the extra time is added to the Time limit and/or Closing time (whichever set).
  Otherwise, the extra time is measured from that moment.
  If the attempt has finished, it is first unsubmitted.
  See above
• If Chat is enabled, there is a Send message to selected students button with an accompanying message field. See below
• If the Navigation method is Sequential exams, there is a Allow continuing to next page in selected attempts button. This allows the student to continue to the next page from whichever page he happens to be on at that moment, even if his response is not considered complete.
• Exam of type Assignment only: The Marks for each question option and all the Regrade buttons are missing
• In exams that include CodeRunner questions, there are Quick regrade buttons alongside both regular Regrade buttons.
  These are most useful in exams in which the students test their code multiple times and, as a consequence, a full regrade can take hours or even days.
  A student's grade for a CodeRunner question is normally his highest grade over all attempts. In a quick regrade, the grade is that of his last attempt.
  Note: Occasionally, this may be what is actually wanted.

• Disqualified and Unanswered questions are not included in the calculations. (This is clearly indicated.)
• Options Calculate statistics from and Analyze responses for are not available.

• Print selected questions sorted by question and Print select questions sorted by student
• Export selected questions to an Assignment. See How can I use the Assignment PDF editor on files uploaded to Essays?
• In CSE courses, for quizzes associated with a CourseAdmin assignment:
  • Grade/Regrade selected questions to grade/regrade feedback based on CourseAdmin penalties, and
  • Export selected questions to CourseAdmin to export CourseAdmin compliant feedback
• For quizzes with CodeRunner questions: Regrade selected questions. (Respects the group menu.)

• There are additional ordering options:
  • Semi-randomly: Unlike option Randomly, ordering does not change between page loads
  • By grade
• There are additional options:
  • Hide question text
  • Hide feedback
  • Show student view (in CSE courses, for quizzes associated with a CourseAdmin assignment)
• There is a Save button, in addition to the Save and show next (or Save and show first) button, to enable continuing on the same page

• The Start attempt/Continue attempt page shows either when the exam will close or how much more time the student has, depending on his starting time (if he is continuing) and the Time limit and/or Closing time
  The page includes includes forms for declaration of honesty, signature and password, as appropriate, but no further information on other access restrictions
• During an exam attempt, the user picture is enlarged and there is no Log out link
• The header is fixed (i.e. non-scrolling) and includes the course name and moed (if any), and Student's name, ID number and picture.
• There is no navigation bar or footer, or any links to anywhere outside the exam attempt (or exam review, during review).
• The wording is everywhere appropriate to an exam
• There are links to the Supplementary documentation (if any) and Instructions (aka Description) on every question page. Both open as popups
• For a Quiz:
  • So as to allow a student to opt not to answer a particular question, radio buttons (in e.g. Multichoice and True/False questions) can be toggled.
  • If the Navigation method is Sequential, clicking on the Next page link is ineffectual until all the questions in the current page have been answered
  For an Assignment:
  • There is now navigation block
  • In the Summary page, there is no summary
• The timer gradually changes from pink to red during the last five minutes. It has a Refresh button
  The timer is automatically refreshed every 5 minutes, and every minute during the last 15 minutes.
• There is an Announcements box and a Chat box (if Chat is enabled) below the Navigation block. See below
• If the student's laptop is connected through the HUJI exam WIFI network, link Recover from lost connection in the Navigation block allows the student to continue working after the WIFI connection is restored i.e. without the need to reload the page (as would be required on Windows) and thus lose unsaved answers.
• The Start attempt button is replaced by an Open the exam browser if Vix is required and not running

• By default, a Student sees only questions that he answered and were not Disqualified, and only the answers that he chose.
  This can be changed. See question How is the EXAM Moodle Exam settings different to regular Quiz settings?
• Both Teacher and Student can toggle between paged and unpaged views of the exam.
  In the Student view, empty pages are not shown i.e the Next page or Previous page link points to the next or previous page with viewable questions.
• A Teacher can toggle between his view and the Student view
• In the Student view, there is an Announcements box and a Chat box (if Chat is enabled) below the Navigation block. See below

• At the top of the page, there is a:
  • Notice if the question is used in any quiz, including a link to a popup that lists all quizzes in all courses that use the question.
  • Warning if there exist any attempts on the question, including a link to popup that lists all attempts including course, quiz, quiz state, question state and correctness
  (This feature is now included also in other Moodles.)
• Option Alert text:  See below

Communication during an exam

• Course staff can post Announcements on the Announcements/Chats page.
  In both Student attempt and review, Announcements are shown in a box below the Navigation block.
  If Chat is enabled, a Chat box appears below the Announcements box.
  Both Announcements and Chats have a Refresh button. The button turns to red when a message arrives (except during review).
  Students can initiate chats and staff can respond. (Staff can initiate chats on the Grades report.)
  A chat is unique to an attempt.
  Staff can view all chats that await a response, and respond to them, on the Announcements/Chats page. See below
• One can set an Alert on a question. (Field Alert text in the question Settings under Question text when Show more... is enabled).
  After setting an Alert, or making any changes to a question during an exam, one must save using one of the default Save changes button i.e. not one of the Save changes to new version buttons.
  (The option to save to the current version - which is the default - is a HUJI feature.)
  If there is an Alert, it appears in red-on-pink above the question text and the question is highlighted in pink in the quiz navigation block.

Extension and Audition roles

• Minhal Talmidim grants extensions to users for a particular year unconditionally, or per degree, semester, course, or up to a certain date.
  Extensions are 25%, 40%, 50% or 100%.
  Ambiguities are resolved as follows:
  • If a date is specified, there is no extension after that date
  • If both semester and course are specified, the semester is ignored
  • Otherwise, if the semester is specified, the extension is for all that semester's courses (regardless of the date of the exam)
  • If the degree is specified, it is invariably the student's degree in that year and is therefore irrelevant
• Minhal Talmidim grants the right for all Hebrew and/or English exams to be read aloud to the student
  The Audition role is assigned only to students who have the right in Hebrew exams.

Other utilities

This tool is defunct. Entry/Exit can now more easily be recorded by QRcode. See above.
The tool is for recording entrance to, presence at, and exit from the exam room.
It is also available as a web service that requires the course Access key for proctors and as a Mobile app (based on the web service).
It's main use is in BYOD exams or when there is no subnet restriction.
It is available to course staff and the Proctor user. (The Proctor user password is available on request.)
The Proctor user is taken to the tool immediately on authentication. He is required to enter course ID/s and Access key for proctors.
Course staff can access the tool through item BYOD Entry/Exit is in the Exam administration block.
For each student, one enters the student ID and selects a state of Enter, In exam or Exit
The Security report (see above) includes any states recorded (by both tool and the QRcode) cases of a student entering after he started and leaving before he finished, and missing entry and exit recordings

How can I...?
...Know what exams there are today, or over some other period of time, or what exams are currently open?
   Use the Today's exams page. (Item Today's exam on the frontpage of EXAM Moodle for users with appropriate privilege. Also under Reports in the Site administration block.)
...Know what exams a particular student has today, or over some other period of time?
   Search for the student in the Today's exams page.
...Understand why a student is being rejected when he tries to get into his exam
   Look at the Access report. Note: Much of the information in this report is shown to the student when he is rejected.
...Quickly give a time extension to a student during an exam or shortly after it?
   Search for the student in the Today's exams page and click on link Allow more time. When necessary, reopens the attempt. Shows a log of all changes.
   (Requires no knowledge of how Overrides work or what what Overrides apply to the student.)
...Quickly allow a student to start an exam after the Time delay has lapsed?
   Search for the student in the Today's exams page and click on link Allow to start. Option appears only within an hour of the Time delay lapsing.
   (Requires no knowledge of how Overrides work or what what Overrides apply to the student.)
...Do a sanity check on my Gang questions?
   Use the gangs.php utility.
...Check if there are any external links in the exam
   Click on link Show external links below the Preview exam now button
   This is especially important if the exam is on a restricted network e.g EXAM net (exams-test) or in the CSE computer farms
...Check if there are any external links or audio files in any exams in a course, course category, or the system
   Use the sbin/external_links.php and sbin/has_audio.php utilities
   Shows all instances in all questions and optional answers and also in Supplementary documentation
...View all autosaves for a particular exam attempt and question
   Use the Attempt log (Links Show full log in Security report.) Includes a link to the full contents each autosave
...Stress test EXAM Moodle
   Use the create*StressAccounts and exam-stress* scripts. Runs any number of simultaneous attempts on any quiz, from login to loading first page, including all redirects and file loads. (Admin only.)
...Extend all active attempts, or attempts that were active a short while previously
   Use the exam_extend_all.php utility. Useful in case of a major disruption. (Admin only.)
...Know if there is still an unfinished exam on a particular IP or in a particular room?
   Use the active_exam.php utility.

Note: These utilities (except for the last three) are available also in HUJI Moodle.

How can I import grades from EXAM Moodle into HUJI Moodle?
Use the EXAM Moodle import type in the HUJI Moodle Gradebook.

BYOD

What is a BYOD exam?
BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device.
In the case of an exam, it implies that students will be allowed to take the exam on their own personal laptops.

What is SEB?
SEB stands for Safe Exam Browser .
It is an application that is available for Windows and MacOS.
It is essentially a full-screen web-browser that opens on a pre-configured URL - in our case EXAM Moodle.
By default, the browser has no navigation menus and keyboard shortcuts (such as Back and Forward). Also system control by keyboard and mouse is disabled.
SEB (or equivalent) should be used for all exams - regular and BYOD.

How do I require students to use SEB
To force students to use SEB, select one of the Require the user of Safe Exam Browser options from the Browser security menu in the exam or override settings.
If in all the exam workstations, SEB will be running and students won't be able to quit it, it is not strictly necessary to set the Browser security.
However, in a BYOD exam, it is absolutely essential.
Students should configure their SEB with Start URL https://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il.
However, SEB has many other configuration options. For proper security in BYOD exams, students should use SEB with the HUJI configuration.
See next question.

What is SEB with HUJI configuration?
To save students the trouble of configuring SEB on their laptops, and also to ensure that they cannot exit SEB during the exam
(or allow themselves to navigate outside their exam, or view files that are not part of their exam)
they should be required to use SEB with the HUJI configuration
To do so, simply select Require the use of Safe Exam Browser with HUJI Exam Browser Keys from the Browser security menu.
Prior to the exam, students should have installed and tested SEB on their laptops according to the instructions under BYOD on the frontpage of Moodle.

Does requiring SEB with HUJI configuration provide sufficient security for BYOD exams?
No! It does not ensure that students are not taking the exam some place else.
It also does not prevent a remote agent controlling students' laptops.
See the next two questions.

How can one ensure that students do not take a BYOD exam some place else?
To ensure that students do not begin or end the exam (or take it entirely) some place else:

1. Use the BYOD Entry/Exit tool. See above
2. Then, after the exam check the Security report. See above

Alternatively:

To ensure that students do not begin the exam some place else:

• Students are not allowed to enter the exam room after the Opening time
  During the exam, the invigilator makes a note of the student ID shown in the header of the EXAM Moodle window on each laptop.
  It is later checked that no other students took the exam.
  Or...
• Require password is set.
  The password is announced only after all students have opened SEB and authenticated to EXAM Moodle.
  The time at which the password is announced is noted and it is later checked that no student authenticated after that time.
  (This assumes that students cannot communicate by mobile phone or other device.)

To ensure that students do not continue the exam some place else:

• When a student wishes to leave the room, the invigilator makes a note of his Student ID and the time.
  The time is later checked against the time that Moodle shows the student submitted.
  Better still, the invigilator checks that Moodle shows the student has submitted.
  Or...
• A Closing time is set.
  Students are not allowed to leave the room before the Closing time

To ensure that an accomplice does not assist during the exam:

• It is checked that no student changed IP.

How can I prevent students allowing a remote agent to control their laptops?
You should set Require subnets to EXAM net (exams-test) and instruct students to connect to the exams-test network.
The network is available everywhere on campus. So it doesn't provide a solution to the problem posed in the previous question.
However, the only IP/port it connects with is that of the EXAM Moodle server (http://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il)
So it prevents communication with all other agents.
Note: If there is an image in the exam instructions, or in any of the questions, that is hosted on another site, it will not be displayed.
(A utility is available to list all links and images in an exam to external sites.)

What if some students will be taking the exam on workstations and others on their own laptops?
Either set Require subnets to a combination or rooms and WIFIs.
Or create a Moodle group and Group override for just the BYOD students.

Troubleshooting

Why can't a student do his exam?
If a student is thrown out with message Sorry! You do not have an exam scheduled at this time and location, it could be because:

• Option Active exam has not been enabled
• He is not in one of the rooms selected, or his IP is not in the list in section Require subnets
• The student has not yet started his exam and either more than an hour has elapsed since the exam Opening time or it is after the Closing time
• There is a Group override for a group to which he belongs, or he has a User override, which overrides one of the above two items
• He is not enrolled to the course (or is not registered to an exam in a flex course).
• If he is trying to review his exams and is not using the exact URL http://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il/review. See next question

Note: During the first few weeks of the semester, if the student does not have an exam at the current time and location, he is redirected to the previous year's EXAM Moodle.
Thus if he does not have an exam in that year's EXAM Moodle either, the message ultimately comes from the previous year's EXAM Moodle.

FAQ

What if a student has more than one exam?
If according to course enrolment (or exam registration for flex courses) and the exam Opening time and Closing time and Require subnets (and relevant overrides, if any), a student currently has more than one exam at the current time and location, then he can chose between the exams

What if Max questions to grade is set and a disqualified question is graded?
If a grade is given to a question that was originally marked as Disqualified, it will no longer be considered Disqualified.
Note 1: Simply adding a comment to a Disqualified question does not change its state.
Note 2: If a grade was given to a disqualified question, the question's original state can be restored by removing the grade and regrading.

How can I use EXAM Moodle to enable students to take regular pen-and-paper exams remotely?

• Create an exam of type Assignment, configured as follows:
  • Instructions: General instructions.
  • Active exam: Yes
  • Enable chat: Yes - enable to allow students to communicate with you during the exam
  • Opening time: As for the onsite-exam
  • Time limit: As for the onsite-exam plus allowance for scanning and uploading
  • Grade using: Either Assignment or TomaGrade
  • Declaration of honesty: Required
  • Browser security: Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security (or Require the user of Safe Exam Browser. See below)
• Click on Edit exam and enter Question text
  If grading is with Assignment, configure whether response should be text and/or uploaded files,
• Add a single Essay question configured as follows:
  • Question text: An image of the exam question paper
  • Response format: No online text
  • Allow attachments: 1 or Unlimited (to save combining pages into a single PDF)
  • Require attachments: 1
  • Accepted file types:
    • jpg - quick and easy but insufficient quality
    • pdf - requires a scanning app such as Camscanner, Adobe Scan, MicroSoft Office Lens or Google drive Most scanning apps can combine several pages into a single PDF
    • doc - for documents written on Word, or
    • A combination of the above
• During the exam, check for new messages from students under Announcements/Chats.
  See also What facilities are there for communicating with students during an exam? above
  Consider how to communicate with students before they start the exam and after they have finished.

How can I use the Assignment PDF editor on files uploaded to Essays?

• On the Manual grading page, select one or more Essay questions and click on Export selected questions to Assignments.
  A new Assignment is created for each question exported (unless the question has already been exported).
  The Assignment's name is a concatenation of the Exam name and the question name.
  A submission is created for each student who answered the question. (Or each student who answered the question since the previous export of that question.)
  The submission includes all uploaded files, as well as any text entered in the editor.
  The Assignment Settings page includes only options relevant to grading.

After grading:

• On the Manual grading page, select one or more Essay questions and click on Import selected questions from Assignments.
  Feedback files, comments and grades are imported back from the Assignment to the Essay question

Of course, one can use any of Assignment features: Offline grading, Advanced grading, plagiarism checking using Originality etc.
In particular, PDF files and Word documents can be graded using the Assignment's built-in editor.

How can I prevent a particular student from reviewing his exam?
Assign him the role of On hold in the exam as follows:

• In the Exam administration block, click on Locally assigned roles
• Click on On hold
• Enter the student's ID in the search box below the Potential users panel and click on Search
• Click on the ◄ Add button between the panels

What demo exams are available?
An exam can be used as a demo by enabling advanced option Demo (in section Exam settings).
There can be only one demo per course.
Demos don't have an Opening or Closing time
A student prepares his demo by accessing https://exam4.cs.huji.ac.il/ex23/demo/ID where ID is the course number

In addition, the following demos are available to all users:

• Safe Exam Browser: https://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il/byodemo
• Safe Exam Browser on exams-test network: https://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il/byodemo/examnet
• Uploading files: https://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il/uploademo
• TomaETest:: https://exam2.cs.huji.ac.il/etestdemo (This demo can be taken only once.)
  (The links are for preparing the demos.)

Notes: A demo is available for one hour only from the time of its preparation.
A demo exam can be done only if the student does not have a real exam at that time.
Except for the TomaETest demo, demos can be prepared and retaken any number of times

How can I see the detailed history of an attempt?
Use the Attempt log. (Link Show full log alongside each Student's entry the Security report.)
By default the Attempt log shows all page saves and page loads, including IP, time and page number.
However, there are options to show also:

• Autorefresh events, including IP, time and page number, and/or
• Autosave events, including time, slot number (with link to the question) and size of the autosaved response (with link to the response)

The Attempt log is useful to help dispute claims that a student lost connectivity or lost his response to a question.

Is it possible for students to access their own files during an exam?
Yes. Enable Allow access to private files in the exam settings. (Currently available only in the Law school.)
If enabled, a Private files block appears in the quiz attempt.
Prior to the exam, students will be able to use the Manage my files link on the login page to manage their files.
A student will be able to manage his files only within the week before he has an exam in which this option is enabled.
Note: Clearly, this option is useful only in an exam on a restricted network

How do I authenticate to EXAM Moodle?
Mispar Zehut and Kod Ishi is sufficient for most access.
However HUJImail or CSE credentials are required to access CSE courses and by users with role of Coordinator, Exam HelpDesk or Editing at category level or higher.
HUJImail, Savion or CSE credentials are sufficient to take or review an exam, and to manage private files.
Two-factor authentication is required for all other purposes. (Implemented but not yet enabled.)

What if I...?
...Increase the Closing time and/or Time limit during an exam?
   The Closing time and/or Time limit in any user override in which it is set is increased by the same amount, factored by the student's extension. Group overrides are not affected