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Company Name | The name of the organisation that is running the exam system. | University of |
Server Settings |
Web Server host | Location of webserver. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | 127.0.0.1 |
ExamSys data directory | Location of datastore for ExamSys to use. The default value is fine for test systems. However, it is advised that the sys admin choses a location outside of the webserver directory on a production system for security and to make the update process more seamless. | <ExamSys install directory> |
Temp Directory | Location of system temp directory. Default is the Linux temp directory, other operating system users will need to adjust accordingly. | /tmp/ |
Database Settings |
DB Username | The database user that is to be used to create the ExamSys database. |
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DB Password | The password for the above user. |
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Database host | Location of database server . The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | 127.0.0.1 |
Database port | Port the database server is accepting connections on. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | 3306 |
Database Name | A name for the database. | examsys |
Main Database Engine | The database engine type. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | InnoDB |
Help Database Engine | The help system database engine type. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | MyISAM |
Basepart of username | Prefix to use on database tables. | examsys |
Date/Time Settings |
Date (MySQL) | Dates displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the date format returned by the database. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | %d/%m/%y |
Long Date (MySQL) | Long Dates displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the date format returned by the database. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | %d/%m/%Y |
Long Date/Time (MySQL) | Long Date/Time displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the datetime format returned by the database. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | %d/%m/%Y %H:%i |
Short Date/Time (MySQL) | Date/Time displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the datetime format returned by the database. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | %d/%m/%y %H:%i |
Long date (PHP) | Long Dates displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the date format returned by the application. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | d/m/Y |
Short date (PHP) | Dates displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the date format returned by the application. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | d/m/y |
Long time (PHP) | Long Date/Time displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the time format returned by the application. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | H:i:s |
Short time (PHP) | Date/Time displayed in ExamSys can be localised to the regions common practice. This setting is the time format returned by the application. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | H:i |
Search results lead-in length | The length (in characters) of the question lead-in to display in the result set of a question search. The default value should not need to be changed in most cases. | 160 |
Current Timezone | The timezone the application should use. | <php timezone setting> |
Authentication |
Allow via LTI | Enable login via LTI. | Enabled |
Internal database | Enable login via application database. | Enabled |
Guest log in | Allow guest user account login. Used by students during exams when they have forgotten there university username/password. | Enabled |
User impersonation | Allow sys admins to impersonate other users. This is helpful when trying to recreate user issues. | Enabled |
Use LDAP | Enable login via LDAP. Enabling will open up the server settings for the LDAP server you wish ExamSys to authenticate against. | Disabled. |
Lookup Data (See more information on lookup data) |
Use LDAP | Enable data lookup via LDAP. Enabling will open up the server settings for the LDAP server you wish ExamSys to lookup against. | Disbaled. |
Use XML | Enable the use of custom XML based data lookup service. Additional manual configuration in the config file will also be required. | Disabled. |
Sys admin user |
ExamSys sys admin user | Please provide details for a sys admin account. This user will be the initial user you will use to set up ExamSys. |
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ExamSys Help Database |
Load Help | Load the default help system database data on install. Unless you intend to write the help files from scratch it is recommend this setting remains enabled. | Enabled |
Summative Exam |
Lab Security | lock summative exams by ipaddress or hostname. This helps to restrict access to summative exams to only the desired cohort. | ip address |
Support |
Email Address | Comma separated list of support email addresses displayed to users when they encounter an error. |
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Contact Number | A maximum of 3 name/number contacts displayed on the invigilator screen. |
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