Learning Suite - Exam Preview and Student View


Exam Preview 

Exams currently allows professors to preview exams. To preview an exam:
  1. Go to Exams in the Learning Suite.

  2. Select the exam you would like to preview.

  3. Go to Questions on the left menu.

  4. Click on the Preview tab that appears to the right of Questions.
 
You will be able to preview how the exam will look. This will NOT, however, allow you to take the exam and receive a score as a student would.
 

Taking an Exam As a Student

Exams also allows instructors to take an exam, just as a student would, and even receive a score. However, they cannot take an exam for a specific student and will be in general student view. They also cannot use student view to take exams that have Proctorio enabled because of how Student View messes with the Proctorio user IDs.
  1. Go to Exams in the Learning Suite.

  2. When in the Exam List, select the "Go to Student View" link in the top right of the screen.

  3. From the Exam List click on the "View" button for the exam you wish to take.



    Note: By default, instructors will see exactly what the students will including time limit, attempts, and status. Beginning the exam from here will enforce all options created for students. To take the exam without those specific options, click "View Page as Instructor." This view will give instructors unlimited attempts and an hour time limit by default, regardless of how long and what date the exam is scheduled for students. (If there is no time limit, the instructor will also have no time limit) This is a feature which allows instructors multiple attempts so they can design the exam to fit their expectations. Students will be given the exam based upon how the instructor scheduled it (date, time, time limit, etc).



  4. Then click on the "Begin Exam" button. 

 

This will ONLY be available for exams that you have published. This is because students cannot view unpublished exams. The results of this test run can be found in the Results tab (in Instructor View) and will be listed under the instructor's name. The instructor's score will not be pushed to BYU Grades, since it is merely for testing purposes.
 
Note: When professors/TAs take an exam in Student View, often an exception is created for them and they may see their name in the list of exceptions for the exam, but this is nothing to worry about.