TestPilot quizzes for the Testing Center

Most settings will be the same whether you give an open quiz available anywhere, or a high stakes exam in the Testing Center. When creating your TestPilot quiz, use the following information as a guideline for recommended settings for Testing Center exams. For questions on specific settings, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at scan@psu.edu.

Submit Actions:

• Score: You have a choice to report the score for the exam at the time the student submits their exam.
• Answer: You have a choice whether to report the correct answers for an exam when the student submits their exam.
• Feedback: TestPilot can deliver question-level feedback when the student submits the exam. This is NOT recommended because of time constraints at the Testing Center.

Security:

• Global information: Standard settings are recommended
• Time limits: Set start and an end times that correspond with the times you are offering the exam in the Testing Center.
• Recall time: This is an auto-submit time. It is recommended that you set this to the same time as the end time of the exam.
• Elapsed time limit: Set this to the amount of time you wish your students to have to complete the exam.
• It is recommended that you include a "time remaining" message.
• Warn participants x minutes before expiration: It is recommended that you set this to ten. It will give your students a message when they have ten minutes left for the exam.
• Submit user responses automatically upon expiration: It is recommended that you check this. It will automatically submit the exam at the end of the testing period.

Attempt Limits:

• Request limit: It is recommended that you set this to three. If a student has a technical problem during an exam, this will allow the Testing Center staff to move the student to a new workstation and restart the exam.
• Submission limit: It is recommended that you set this to one, allowing students to submit the exam only one time.

Authorized Participants:

• Set the lookaside file to: "RosterX.tpx" automatically pulls the current roster file from the Registrar’s office.

Authorized Workstations:

• Set the lookaside file to: "TestingCenter.tpx" allows the exam to be taken only in the Testing Center.

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