Exams

Exam seating, timings and invigilation in one record

Exams runs your school’s exam series: the papers, who sits each one, the rooms and seats, and the invigilators in every room. Each candidate’s finish time is worked out once, with their own extra time, so the screen, the door list and the timetable in their hand all agree.

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What it does

Candidates from a rule

Say who sits a paper by class, by year or cohort tag, or by name. Build the candidates again and anyone who has joined is entered and anyone who has left is withdrawn.

A room for every arrangement

Record each student’s access arrangements once. Allocating gives every candidate a room and a seat, with extra time, readers and word processors in rooms of their own, and a dry run shows the result before anything is written.

Ready for the day

Print door lists, desk labels, room signs and invigilator packs. On the day, one board shows every room in an exam, invigilators take the register and log incidents, and each candidate can print their own timetable.

How it works

  1. Set up your school

    Sign up, then add your students and your staff on the People page, or send them a join link.

  2. Prepare the series

    Record your rooms and how many each one seats, create a series, and add its papers by hand or from a spreadsheet.

  3. Seat the candidates

    Build each paper’s candidates, settle any clashes, allocate rooms and seats, assign invigilators, then lock the paper and print its sheets.

What it costs

Exams is free on its own, with no card, for up to 30 people. Each app you add after it is $25 (NZD) a month, and each person beyond those 30 people is $2 (NZD) a month.

Questions people ask

Who sees a candidate’s access arrangements?

Your exams office: by default any member of staff, and you can narrow it to your administrators. A student sees only their own papers, rooms, seats and finish times, and the sign on a room’s door carries no names.

Do we need our timetable or our classes?

Not to run exams. Candidates come from your classes and groups, from year or cohort tags, or by name, and a series needs only your rooms and the school year. With your timetable set up too, candidates can be taken out of the lessons their papers overlap. Entering everyone who takes a course comes with the whole of MyTime.

Can we bring in the exam board’s timetable?

Yes. Import the papers from a spreadsheet and check its columns before anything is saved. A date that could be read two ways is refused rather than guessed, and a candidate named in the file is entered only on an exact match.

Can we add more later?

Yes. Add another app, such as cover for the lessons of colleagues who are away, or the whole of MyTime, and keep everything you already have.