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Online exam / test guidance
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This guide is for staff who want to use the MyBeckett test tool to run an online exam.
Advice and tips to ensure the online exam goes as smoothly as possible.
To provide a trouble free user experience for students undertaking exams in MyBeckett, we recommend you consider the following points when planning online exams:
- Creating questions: If preparing questions in Word, paste your question / answer text into Notepad first, to avoid any unwanted underlying HTML characters which may affect the formatting.
- Number of questions: Avoid creating large exams (maximum 50 questions). If you have more than 50 questions, consider breaking them into smaller exams taken in sequence instead.
- Question sets: When building a test using random selection of questions from pools, keep exam as short as possible.
- Test availability options: When adding a test to a module content area, don’t use the force completion option if you are only allowing students one attempt at the test. A student experiencing an error would not be able to resume from where they left off or start again.
- Test presentation options: When adding a test to a module content area, choose question-by-question display if you have more than 25 questions. Avoid using randomised display order in combination with question-by-question display.
- Student preview: You can use the student preview tool to check that your test is set up and working as you expected.
Before the exam starts, we recommend that you advise students to:
- Use Google Chrome, not Internet Explorer. Chrome is faster and less likely to time out.
- Save their attempt every ten minutes (but avoid saving too frequently, as this may overload the application).
