This table shows a history of recent updates to the Examena user guide.
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Article |
Change |
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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: How to use Power BI desktop to view and customise visual report? | |
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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 default exam setup settings to initialise the system? |
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 |
Marker: |
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 default exam setup settings to initialise the system? |
Support configuring to show or hide the chat box for exams. |
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January 28, 2024 |
Exam administrator:
How to configure default
settings for publishing exam results to candidates? |
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. |
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November 26, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring custom colours for Examena in MaivenPoint Online Services. |
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November 26, 2023 |
Course manager: |
•Support configuring online proctoring settings for open-book exams. •Support disabling screen recording and candidate recording when screen proctoring and candidate proctoring are enabled. |
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November 26, 2023 |
Paper crafter: |
Support creating a paper with AI questions. |
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September 24, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring approval processes for courses. |
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September 24, 2023 |
Approver: |
Approvers can handle approval tasks in task centre to approve or reject exams and/or papers. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support integrating with LMS platform to provide online proctoring service. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support activating and deactivating email templates for management. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Support synchronising all candidates to the exams of which exam end time or deadline has not reached. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Added enhancements for exam statistics report, question statistics report, and candidate statistics report. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Course manager: |
Support enabling ID verification and face verification for an exam separately. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Course manager: |
Added enhancements to the marking staff for both marking processes. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Course manager: |
Added enhancements to both marking processes. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Course manager: |
Support synchronising scores to reports to view the candidate total scores in reports at any time. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Paper crafter: |
Support the Categorisation and File upload question types. |
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July 30, 2023 |
Paper crafter: |
Support specifying sections when importing a PDF paper. |
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May 28, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring email templates for notification emails. |
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May 28, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring announcements for staff and candidates. |
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May 28, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Support configuring the list of authorised URLs at the global level. |
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May 28, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Support configuring the default marking process for exams, regular marking or double-blind marking. |
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May 28, 2023 |
Exam administrator: How to configure Turnitin integration to enable similarity check? |
Support enabling similarity check for exams. |
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March 26, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support creating custom roles at different levels with granular permissions. |
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March 26, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Support configuring semesters and creating courses for semesters. |
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March 26, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Support configuring authoring settings to enable secrecy protection for papers. |
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March 26, 2023 |
Course manager: |
Support assigning checkers and monitors for exams, and sending email notification to remind staff of their assignments. |
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March 26, 2023 |
Paper crafter: |
Support configuring marking guide, appendix, and reference file for a paper, as well as configuring additional marks for the exam. |
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March 26, 2023 |
Paper crafter: |
Support configuring additional marks for questions. |
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January 29, 2023 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring user profile settings to select the information to be displayed in user profiles. |
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January 29, 2023 |
Exam administrator: |
Support configuring and publishing the organisation structure, and creating organisations based on the organisation structure. |
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January 29, 2023 |
Exam administrator: How to configure default exam setup settings to initialise the system? |
Support configuring exam setup settings for exams to enable a key and set an entrance restriction. |
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January 29, 2023 |
Exam administrator:
How to configure default
settings for publishing exam results to candidates? |
Support configuring the default publish settings for exams. |
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January 29, 2023 |
Course manager: |
Support creating exams in bulk via an Excel file, and support enabling a key for closed-book exams. |
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November 27, 2022 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring default font and font size. |
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November 27, 2022 |
Exam administrator: How to configure default exam setup settings to initialise the system? |
Support configuring keyboard shortcuts. |
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September 25, 2022 |
Application administrator: |
Support customising the logo and theme for Examena in MaivenPoint Online Services. |
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September 25, 2022 |
Exam administrator: |
•Support viewing question statistics report to check the status and results of all questions in Examena. •Support viewing candidate statistics report to view the attendance and results of all exams for each candidate. |
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July 31, 2022 |
Application administrator: |
Examena can now be integrated as a tool in any LTI 1.3 compatible LMS platform. |
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July 31, 2022 |
Exam administrator: |
Support viewing sample exam statistics report to view candidate attempts of sample exams. |
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May 29, 2022 |
Course manager: |
Support assigning markers for the exam. |
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March 26, 2022 |
Application administrator: |
Support configuring quick links for staff and candidates. |
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March 26, 2022 |
Exam administrator: |
Support creating sample exams for candidates to be familiar with the system. |
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January 24, 2022 |
Course manager: |
Support configuring facial recognition and video proctoring settings separately. |
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January 24, 2022 |
Paper crafter: |
Support the rich text editor for the question content of all question types, as well as options of the Choice question. |
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November 15, 2021 |
Exam administrator:
How to configure authorised applications?
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Support configuring the authorised applications at the global level. |
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November 15, 2021 |
Course manager: |
Support configuring authorised URLs and applications for exam. |