Inspera for Professional Services Colleagues
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Inspera for Professional Service Colleagues
Inspera Digital Exams are supported by the Digital Assessment Team within LTDS. The Digital Assessment Team set up all centrally supported Inspera exams in the University assessment periods.
The Digital Exams Team also support a small amount of summative ad-hoc Inspera exams between assessment periods. If Module Teams within Schools are setting up practice or formative tests for their students, they can use the instructions on the Inspera Canvas course, or can contact Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk if School's would like to arrange specific training.
This page is devoted to providing guidance for Professional Service (PS) colleagues who support Inspera exams in their School, as well as direct academic colleagues to relevant support. This content is designed to empower and inform colleagues with their current workflows.
There is a short video series within this page which includes demonstrations of 'actions' within Canvas and Inspera.
There are also links to the online training webinars available to PS and academic colleagues, as well as links to guidance pages for students.
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Getting started with Inspera
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Can students practice on the Inspera system?
There is information about demo Inspera exams on the Inspera ASK website for students.
To complete a demo of Inspera, all students are welcomed to access a self-enrol Canvas course which allows access to two demo exams:
- Open book (which is open to all students and can be used on any machine)
- A locked down demo (which can be used but only on campus PCs, as additional software is installed on campus PCs).
All staff are also welcomed to try out these demo exams as needed.
A student has asked if their submission was successful for their exam on Inspera?
As exam submissions are made within Inspera’s Exam Portal, it’s completely fine (and normal) that there’s no submission registered on the Canvas assignments area. Until the marks are confirmed on Inspera and grades are ported into Canvas, students will not see any further Inspera exam information on Canvas.
Please reassure your students that any potential unsuccessful submissions to Inspera exams within on-campus PC cluster venues would be flagged by the invigilator. The Digital Exams Team could then investigate.
If you believe your student may have used a paper copy of the digital exam, this information should be logged within the invigilator report.
I need to collect a sample of student submissions from an Inspera exam, how can I do this?
To do this you must be registered as a teacher or teaching assistant on the Canvas Module.
- Go to the Canvas module assignment.
- Click on the name of the exam, e.g. ‘MODXXXX Inspera Digital exam [Date]’.
- Click the grey load button.
- This opens Inspera, click the orange ‘Open in Grade’ button.
- To download student submissions from Inspera you can download individual scripts.
- Go to Results in the left hand menu (labelled ‘a’ on the image below).
- In the table find the student whose script you wish to download (you can identify them by student number) and click the 3 dots icon next to their record (labelled ‘b’ on the image below).
- Click Download and print (labelled ‘c’ on the image below).
