Features, Improvements, and Fixes

These Release Notes contain a summary of the changes made for the July 12, 2024 release of EchoExam. For changes made in previous deployments, visit the Deployment Notes section of our Knowledge Base or contact support@echo360.com.

New Features

Performance by Metadata

Performance by Metadata card of the Learners section of the Instructor Report

Instructors can select metadata tags to surface on their exam reports. For each selected metadata tag, instructors will see the performance summary for all questions associated with the tag. Performance details include individual learner performance, average roster performance, and performance range. Metadata tags are flagged as On Track, Review, or At Risk based on instructor-configured thresholds.

Exam Passwords

Student view of the Exam start showing a field for an Exam Password

Instructors can add an additional password when creating a new exam. Passwords are exam-specific and learners are prompted to enter the password when beginning their exam attempt. Learners who do not have the correct password will not be able to access and complete the exam, even if they are assigned to it.

Block Cut, Copy, and Paste

Exam settings with Block / Cut / Copy / Paste option selected

Instructors have an optional setting to prevent learners from using cut, copy, and paste functions during an exam. When this setting is turned on, learners will not be able to paste text from another source into their exam answers, and they will not be able to copy question or other exam text out to another location.

Browser Lock with Respondus

Exam settings with Browser Lock option selected

Browser lock from EchoExam is now powered by Respondus, a trusted partner for secure exam delivery. Instructors will have all of the secure exam features that they love, with additional options to allow specific URLs, or to allow specific applications to run in the background, like Microsoft Teams. Instructors can configure these settings for each exam, so learners will never have access to additional items unless the instructor has allowed it.

Instructor Annotations

Instructor Annotations from the Feedback and Rationale tab of a question shown

All question types include a new option for Instructor Annotations, allowing instructors to add additional notes that learners will never have access to, regardless of exam settings. Instructors using publisher content redeemed in EchoExam will see annotations provided by the publisher in this area.

Improvements

Improved question formatting with added support for bold, italic, and underline font styles in answer options for matching, fill in the blank, and drag and drop question types.
Additional support for images and equations in the answer options for matching questions.
Updated question Rationale to support bold, italic, and underline text formatting as well as images and equations.
Renamed "Publish" action to "New Exam" for a more intuitive experience

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where instructors were unable to see search results for Publisher Titles in the Test Generator.
Resolved issue where matching questions did not import with the correct formats.
Corrected issue where text box responses intermittently carried over to the next page.
Updated short answer scoring to remove conflict between equations and keywords when both are added to the question