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.
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