What is DigiExam?

DigiExam (DE) allows you to administer an assessment to students with the ability to prevent students from looking at outside resources or applications. As the teacher, you have to configure DigiExam how you like, create your exam at DigiExam.com, administer the exam to students, then grade the exam. A number of Overlake teachers use this already in their classes and during finals to administer multiple-choice or essay style tests. Once a test is started the teacher can see who has started and who has not. Once a test is started the DE application forcibly quits all other applications and takes over the student’s screen so no other applications can be accessed.

Some quick terminology:

• DigiExam: an online software tool that allows teachers to create exams for students that give the ability to lock students' computers down so they may not access other resources on that computer during the exam.
• DigiExam Student App: Students must download the DigiExam app on their computers to take a DigiExam test. 
• Exam ID: This is the unique identifier or ID for each exam so that DigiExam knows what exam a student is attempting to complete.
• Student Code: If you use the "Exam ID" method of giving an exam your students will be asked to provide a student code - this is their six-digit Veracross (VC) ID that they can find on the Veracross Student Portal or at https://overlake.org/user. It's the same code they use in the Campus Center and Library and Bookstore.
• Unlock: occasionally students will have their test interrupted due to a network issue, battery life on their laptop, etc., and the teacher will need to manually unlock their exam to allow them to continue working on their exam. This will allow them to pick up where they left off.

How do I get started?

 The basics of using DigiExam are as follows:

1. Ensure your students have downloaded the DigiExam App and know how to login. (Instructions here - feel free to share with your students)
2. Before your run your first real exam it is STRONGLY recommended that you run a quick trial exam in your class - maybe just one silly question. This will allow you to see that all your students are properly set up, and for you to see what monitoring the exam looks like. 
3. Create exam in DigiExam
4. Determine how you will administer your exam:
   • There are two primary ways to administer an exam in DigiExam: first, you can distribute an Exam ID for students to use via Canvas, and have the students enter the exam ID into the DigiExam app on their computer, along with the Student Code, and then can begin the exam. This option is easier to set up, but does not bring DigiExam grades back into your Canvas gradebook, if that is of interest to you.
   • Exam ID
     • You can distribute an Exam ID for students to use via Canvas, and have the students enter the exam ID into the DigiExam app on their computer, and then can begin the exam. 
   • Canvas Integration
     • You can set up an assignment in Canvas and link it to an exam in DigiExam. This will also allow the grades to be automatically added to the Canvas Gradebook. 
5. Troubleshooting
   • If something goes wrong during the exam, the solution is nearly always to just restart the student's computer. 
   • DigiExam may prompt you to save work on a USB drive, but many computers don't have a USB drive, and have problems saving to these drives. HOWEVER - I have found that DigiExam has always saved all the student work, no USB drive necessary as a backup. 
   • You may have to unlock the exam for the student once they are logged back in.
6. Grade Exam

Where can I learn more?

DigiExam has excellent documentation that you can use to find the answer to nearly any questions you might have.General Resources are available in the TeacherKnowledge Base or the StudentKnowledge Base.

1. Selected specific tasks here

   1. Set up an exam

   2. Add questions to an exam

   3. Start an exam

   4. Schedule an exam

   5. Grade an Exam

   6. Monitor students