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ExamView: Publishing a LAN-Based Test with and without a Roster

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Publishing a LAN-Based Test with a Roster

LAN-based tests may be created with or without a roster. To record the students' results from a test, you probably will want to create a test with a roster. If you are creating a study guide for student use and do not want to record the students' results, you do not need to create a roster.

  1. Create a new test or open an existing test.

    A LAN-based test can include any of the question types. Many of these question types are automatically scored.

  2. Click File, mouse over Publish To and select ExamView Test Player on LAN.
  3. Select the radio button labeled Limit access to students in a particular class.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Click Launch ExamView Test Manager after publishing the LAN-based test if you want to set up a class roster and other preferences for this test right away. Or, you may choose to manually open ExamView Test Manager and set these options at a later time. Your test will not be available to students until you open Test Manager and set up your preferences.
  6. Click Save to save the test.

    Save the test to a location that is easily accessible to the students. For example, make sure that your students have read/write access to the folder if you store the test on a network server. If you do not have a network, you must copy the LAN-based test to each workstation. By default, the test will be saved to the Default (LAN) Test Path that is set in the Preferences.

When you save a LAN-based test, the program saves a specially formatted copy of the test (using an EOT extension) to the location you specified. If you saved the test to your hard drive, you will need to copy the EOT file to your network. If your test includes links to any multimedia files, you need to copy those files manually to the same location as the LAN-based test.

Preview your LAN-based test to make sure that everything is working. If you notice an error, make any changes to the original test and publish it again.

 

Publishing a LAN-Based Test Without a Roster

LAN-based tests may be created with or without a roster. To record student results from a test, you will need to create a test with a roster. If you are creating a study guide and do not want to record student results, you do not need to create a roster.

  1. Create a new test or open an existing test.

    A LAN-based test can include any of the question types. Many of these question types are automatically scored.

  2. Click File, mouse over Publish To and select ExamView Test Player on LAN.
  3. Select the radio button labeled Allow access to anyone.
  4. Click Next.
  5. By default, the test title that the student sees when using the Test Player will be the same as the test title of the file. Specify a different test title if desired.
  6. Optionally, indicate whether a password is required to access the test.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Select the question presentation order.

    Questions may be displayed in the same order for all students or scrambled for each student.

  9. Specify how many questions are presented and if they should be recalculated.

    By default, all questions in the test will be presented to the student.

  10. Select Calculate new algorithm values for each student if your test contains dynamic questions and you want the values for these questions to be recalculated for each student's test.

    This option is not available if the test does not contain dynamic questions.

  11. Click Next.
  12. Select one of the following options:
    • Allow students to check each response
    • Do not allow students to check their responses
  13. Select the information shown to the student when a test is completed.
    • Do not show an end-of-test report
    • Show only score (percent)
    • Show detailed report for