This table shows a history of recent updates to the Examena user guide.
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Change |
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November 30, 2025 |
Application administrator: |
Examena now supports the OAuth 2.0 (Microsoft Graph API) authentication method when configuring email settings in MaivenPoint Online Services. |
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November 30, 2025 |
Exam administrator: |
You can now choose whether to restrict network access for authorised applications. |
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September 28, 2025 |
Application administrator: How to allow newly enrolled students to take an ongoing exam? |
You can now enable auto sync for candidates to automatically sync new candidates to all incomplete exams in their course. |
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September 28, 2025 |
Exam administrator: How to use Power BI desktop to view and customise visual report? |
Enhanced customization capabilities with an expanded data model are now available. Power BI desktop now includes additional tables and fields from the report database, unlocking new data sources for your reports. |
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September 28, 2025 |
Exam administrator: |
The Only show my courses option is available on the Course configuration page for course managers and co-course managers to display only the courses they are assigned to. |
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September 28, 2025 |
Course manager: |
The Only show exams from my courses option is available on the Exam page for course managers and co-course managers to display exams from their managed courses. |
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December 29, 2024 |
Examena offers a built-in AI chatbot to provide instantaneous online assistance when staff use Examena. | |
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December 29, 2024 |
Application administrator: |
The Approval process now supports a new service type for questions, allowing you to set up approval processes specifically for questions. |
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Approver: | ||
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December 29, 2024 |
Application administrator: |
Deep Linking is now supported when integrating with D2L Brightspace. |
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December 29, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
Support importing questions from Moodle to Examena via Moodle XML file. |
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December 29, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
Support importing a paper from Moodle to Examena via Moodle XML file. |
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December 29, 2024 |
Invigilator: |
•Custom views are now available on the Attendance page. •You can now pause and then resume the exam for candidates on the Attendance page. •You can now review the suspicious activities of candidates when checking the exam recording to choose whether to dismiss or confirm the suspicious activities. |
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December 29, 2024 |
Invigilator: |
On the Live proctoring page of an exam, the following actions are available: •Pause and resume the exam for specific candidates. •Review suspicious activities of candidates to choose whether to dismiss or confirm the suspicious activities. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Exam administrator: |
Support viewing the last updated time of the report and refreshing the report data to up-to-date for the question statistics report, candidate statistics report, and Power BI report. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Exam administrator: | |
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September 29, 2024 |
Exam administrator: How to configure default exam setup settings to initialise the system? |
•Support configuring the default degree settings of suspicious activities for exams at the global level. •Support configuring the default environment verification for exams at the global level. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Course manager: |
Support creating custom views to only show specific columns in desired order on the Grading progress page. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Marking staff: |
•Support exporting staff comments together with candidate responses. •Support viewing overall similarity score of candidates. •Support creating custom views to only show specific columns in desired order on the Marking progress page. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
Support viewing the number of uses for each question. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
•Support generating AI questions from web links or specific topics. •Support generating AI sub-questions. •Support generating suggested topics based on the question source or configured topics. |
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September 29, 2024 |
Invigilator: |
•Support changing the playback speed of proctoring video. •Support configuring degree settings of suspicious activities for the invigilating exam. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Newly added to provide quick answers to common questions to help staff resolve issues raised by candidates efficiently. | |
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June 30, 2024 |
Exam administrator: |
Support viewing statistics of exams, questions, and candidates from various perspectives on the reports dashboard. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Exam administrator: |
Support configuring rubric templates for exams. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Exam administrator: How to configure keyboard shortcuts and exam setup settings? |
Support configuring online proctoring settings for closed-book exams and open-book exams separately. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Course manager: |
Support configuring the following settings for exams: •Enable AI marking •Allow candidates to view their submissions •Publish percentage scores to candidates •Display rubric details to candidates |
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June 30, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
•Support importing and exporting QTI questions that conform to QTI specification v1.2. •Support applying rubrics to open-ended questions. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
•Support importing and exporting QTI papers that conform to QTI specification v1.2. •Support generating PDF with marker view to include the correct answers, model answers, marking guide, appendix and reference file. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Invigilator: |
Support viewing remaining time of the exam on the attendance page. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Invigilator: |
Support tracking file save status of candidates for Secured Excel and WordDoc assignment questions. |
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June 30, 2024 |
Marking staff: |
•Support marking scores with assistance of AI. •Support marking scores with rubrics. |
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March 31, 2024 |
Exam administrator: |
Support viewing Power BI report. |
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March 31, 2024 |
Course manager: |
Support setting up an oral exam. |
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March 31, 2024 |
Course manager: |
•Support flagging candidates on the Marking progress page, and clear flag from candidates if there is no doubt about the candidates. •Support adding annotations in the Word files uploaded by candidates when you mark score for candidate responses. |
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March 31, 2024 |
Course manager: |
Support conduct and mark scores for an oral exam. |
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March 31, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
Support enabling question pool for sections in a paper to randomly select questions from the pool and displayed to candidates in the corresponding sections. |
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March 31, 2024 |
Paper crafter: |
Support creating questions of two new types: Secured Excel and WordDoc assignment. |
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January 28, 2024 |
Exam administrator: How to configure keyboard shortcuts and exam setup settings? |
Support configuring to show or hide the chat box for exams. |
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January 28, 2024 |
Exam administrator: How to configure grade mapping templates and publish settings? |
Support configuring whether to display correct answers to candidates together with response details. |
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January 28, 2024 |
Course manager: |
Support enable or disable the chat box for the exam. |
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January 28, 2024 |
Course manager: |
The regular marking process has been enhanced. |