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Exam Scheduler and Exam Management System
Educational and Exam Logistics
Presented by David ReanneySISLink 2013, Noordwijkerhout
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Introduction
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Background
• Founded 1989, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom• Higher Education Scheduling and Resource Management
expertise• 500 Education institutions worldwide (UK, Europe, Australia,
New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia & 26 other countries)• Experiences in Resource Optimization, Planning, Scheduling &
Timetabling
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Client Base Stats
• Over 60 of the world’s top 100 research Universities schedule with Syllabus Plus
• 75% of the UK Times top 200 schedule with Syllabus Plus• Market Leader in Scheduling solutions for Higher Education• 170 clients in Northern Europe• 27 in the Netherlands
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Commitment
• Specialist Development Resources with many years of experience developing and refining scheduling and resource management solutions.
• Significant ongoing investment in Product Development – over 11 million GBP committed to development this year.
• Heavy commitment to client engagement• Active User community• User Groups• User Forums
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Solutions Outline
Staff & Academic Workload
Syllabus Plus Enterprise
Exam Scheduler
Student Allocation
Web Solutions
Scientia Space Manager Scientia Facilities
Manager Scientia Mobile
Calendaring
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Exam Scheduler - Summary• Exam Scheduler has been designed with the aim of helping
institutions provide an improved service to students, whilst saving time and effort for staff.
• It allows the examinations scheduler to create a conflict-free timetable that balances the needs of the institution with student requirements.
• Exam Scheduler can be used to:• Schedule planned examinations• Allocate Invigilators• Allocate students to seats• Manage students that require extra provision
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Benefits
Automatically creates a clash-free timetable for Students in minutes not hours or days
Powerful and configurable scheduling engine designed for examination scheduling
Reduces back-to-back exams and balances the overall load for students
Spreads exams across the available examination period
Allows the scheduler to take account of ‘real-world’ scheduling requirements
Scheduling engine can be tuned to meet institutional requirements and has full manual over-ride and control
Reduces cost of invigilation and can remove the need to rent costly external space
Improves room use for exams – fits multiple exams into a single room or splits large exams across multiple rooms
Minimises the time it takes to take account of changes needed to meet special provision for students with additional requirements
Improved management of sessions for students that need extra provision
Minimise data entry, improves accuracy and speeds up the publication of draft and final exam timetables for staff and students
Can take data from and send data out to other management and reporting systems
Exam Scheduler – Benefits and Features
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Exam Scheduler – Demo
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Exam Scheduler – Summary• Schedules exams for real or planned numbers of students• Handles rooms, examiners, invigilators and seat allocation• Assists the management of students that need extra provision• Interactive scheduling engine can be used:• For automatic bulk scheduling• For interactive scheduling• For manual (guided) scheduling• To manage changes to the schedule after draft and final
publication
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EMIT Interface Tool - Features• Required for the import and export of:
• Students and Exam enrolments • Examiners and Invigilators• Locations • Curriculum Structure and Exam Requirements• Student Additional Requirements• Scheduled Exams
From any ODBC data source• Oracle and SQL Server fully supported
• Import and export of multiple periods simultaneously
• Synchronisation of availability data from Syllabus+/Enterprise Timetabler
• Full data validation on import• Automatic handling of data changes
through timestamps on data
• Can be used interactively or as a scheduled background command-line process
• Easy to use UI for configuration• defined configurations can be saved for use
later by a background process
• Comprehensive logging
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And coming soon..
Extending our solutions – Exam Management System
• Providing extended Invigilator Management• Exam Paper Management and Logistics• Management of Distance and Special Exams
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Exam Management System
Extending our solutions – Exam Management System
• Seamless Integration with Exam Scheduler• Entirely Web Deployed• User Defined Stage Based Workflow
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Exam Management System - Demo
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And Further Down the Road
Serial Exam Extension
• Serial exams are where students undertake the exam in batches as opposed to all at the same time.
• Common serial exams include oral assessments for language testing, performance based assessments and medical practise exams.
• At present these are often managed outside of the central exams scheduling process.
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And Further Down the Road
Serial Exam Extension
• Extended venue allocation support covering preparation and support spaces.
• Extended time allocation support providing for preparation time examiner breaks etc.
• Students are only assigned to their batch slot for the exam.
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Questions?
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Thank You!
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