Equivalent Exam

Let us walk you through the process of creating an equivalent exam, highlighting its key features separately to ensure a clear and simple experience.

On the home page, go to the “Exams”, and click on “Manage Exams.”

An “Exam Listing” screen appears.
Click “Add New Exam”.

Choose “Single Exam” under “Single Course, and proceed to “Next.”

A “Select Course” screen opens.
Choose the course. You can search for the course name too.
Upon selection, click on “Next.”

Next, the screen for selecting the exam type will appear.
Choose “Equivalent Exam”, and enter the “Number of Equivalent Exams” you want to create.
After doing this, proceed by clicking “Next.”

Now, you are on the “Manage Exam” screen.

Exam Info

In this phase, by default, “Ad-hoc Exam” is selected. You can link it with some assessment activity as well.
Give your exam a “Title”.
Besides, “Choose Language”.
Write “Student Instructions” if you want to write special notes regarding the exam.
Click “Save”.

Next phase is ‘Exam Construction.’

Exam Construction

Now, you are on the “Exam Construction” screen.

Assessment Type

The first phase of ‘Exam Construction’ is Assessment Type.

See the “Assessment Type” as “Summative”.
Write the “Weightage in Course”, “Exam Total Marks”, “Passing Marks”, and “Number of Questions Required.”
After doing all of these, click “Update & Next.”

You are now on the ‘Blueprint’ screen.

Blueprint

Here, you can add a new blueprint.

To add Blueprint, please refer to the steps we followed in “How to Create a Blueprint-based exam?”

We are skipping the Blueprint phase for the equivalent exam by clicking “Skip Blueprint.”

Upon selecting “Skip Blueprint”, a pop-up appears asking you to “Select Item Types.”
Choose the item type that has items, and proceed to the next step.

You are now on the ‘Sections’ screen.

Sections

If you want to divide equivalent exams into sections, then check the box “Divide Exam Into Sections.”

To create a section-based exam, please refer to the steps we followed in “How to Create a Section-based Exam?”

For now, we are skipping it and clicking “Update & Next.”

You are now on the ‘Exam Management’ screen.

Exam Management

Here you will see the “Total Required Items”, “Total Selected Items”, and “Duration”.
You selected the total number of items that you require previously, and added items as well.
The system automatically distributes marks equally across all items.
However, you may adjust the distribution as needed by selecting the “Divide Marks” option.
The “Select Equivalent Exam” shows you tabs of equivalent exams that you can select for an exam.
Default Sections illustrate the selected item type, its “Marks”, and “Display Order”, allowing you to distribute the marks as needed and decide the order in which you want the items to be displayed.
You can “Add Items”. To do this, first increase the number in “Total Required Items.” Once the required number of items is fulfilled, additional items cannot be added.

You are now on the ‘Manage Students’ screen.

Manage Students

Here you will see the “Equivalent Exams”. All equivalent exams that you created, and the “Assigned Students.”
Besides, you will see “Free”, and “Assigned to Exam”.

This will lead you to the ‘Locations’ phase.

Locations

If you want the exam access outside university premises, click “Yes.”
To restrict exam access within the university premises, select “No.” You will then need to assign rooms and define IPs to enforce location-based restrictions.

To create an IP-based exam, please refer to the steps we followed in “How to Create an IP-based Exam?”

Exam Settings

Here, you can check boxes to tailor the exam settings.
Each section can be enabled by selecting it or left unchecked if you don’t wish to use it.

Please refer to the ‘Exam Settings’ part of “Single Exam” section if you want detailed instructions.

After ‘Locations’, you will be on the ‘Exam Settings’ phase.

After “Exam Settings”, it’s now time for “Proctor Management”.

Proctor Management

From the options, “User identity and face images not required” or “User identity and face images required”, choose whether you want the identification and face images of the proctor or not.

If you check the box of “Use Proctoring Feature”, the options of “AI Proctoring”, “Human-Based Proctoring”, or “Both” will appear.
Please choose your preferred option to proceed.
Besides, you will see “Allow Students to Skip Face & ID Card Images” if you don’t want the face and ID card images of students while the exam is being conducted.

After “Proctor Management”, now comes scheduling the exam.

Schedule an Exam

Here it includes “Time Zone”, “Availability Based Exam”, “Conduction Date”, “Start Time”, “Duration (min)”, “Time for students to join after exam starts (min)”, and “Exam Upload Time”.

If you want to schedule the exam based on the availability of students, you need to check the box for “Availability Based Exam.”

You need to specify the “Start Date”, “Start Time”, “End Date”, “End Time”, “Duration (min), and “Exam Upload Time”

After scheduling the exam, it’s time to “Save” it. Saving the exam is the last phase of exam creation.

Save the Exam

Please click the “Save” button to finalize and save all exam details.

When you click on “Save”, a confirmation pop-up appears asking, “Are you sure you want to save the exam?”

By clicking “Yes”, a success message appears at the top right, indicating that the exam has been saved successfully.

You have now completed the process of creating an equivalent exam.

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