5. Initial Settings

ExamSys follows the following structure.

Before you can have students taking exams you will need to populate this structure.

Faculties

The first entity you must populate is faculty.

• manually via Administration Tools > Faculties

  • Faculties can either be entered one at a time or uploaded via a csv file

• via a student mangement system plugin

• via the ExamSys API

• via the IMS Enterprise integration

Note: by default only the following faculties are created on install: Administrative and Support Units, UNKNOWN faculty.

Schools

The next entity you must populate is school.

• manually via Administration Tools > Schools
  
  

  • Schools can either be entered one at a time or uploaded via a csv file

• via a student management system plugin

• via the ExamSys API

• via the IMS Enterprise integration

Note: by default only the following schools are created on install: Training, UNKNOWN school.

Courses

The next entity you must populate is course.

• manually via Administration Tools > Course

  • Courses can either be entered one at a time or uploaded via a csv file

• via a student management system plugin

• via the ExamSys API

• via the IMS Enterprise integration

Note: by default no courses are created on install. You will need some if you wish to add student users.

Modules

The next entity you must populate is module.

• manually via Administration Tools > Modules

  • Modules can either be entered one at a time or uploaded via a csv file

• via a student management system plugin

• via the ExamSys API

• via the IMS Enterprise integration

Note: by default only the following modules are created on install: TRAIN, SYSTEM

Users

The next entity you must populate is user.

• manually via Administration Tools > User Management

  • Users can either be entered one at a time or uploaded via a csv file

• only students can be added via a student management system plugin

• via the ExamSys API

• via the IMS Enterprise integration

Note: By default only the sys admin user is created on install.

Assessments

The next entity you must populate is assessment.

• manually via Module > New Paper

• via a student management system plugin

• via the ExamSys API

Questions

The next entity you must populate is question.

• New questions

  • can be added manually via Paper > Create New Question

  • imported from a QTI file via Paper > Import/Export > Import QTI format

  • imported from a ExamSys assessment file via Paper > Import/Export > Import ExamSys assessment format

• Existing questions

  • can be added manually via Paper > Add Questions to Paper

Further Reading

• Functional Specification

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