New Features
Segregated Question Bank
Question bank segregation allows you to control the authoring and management of items more granularly across your organisation. It provides efficiency and extra security in your exam processes as users only see what they need to reducing errors. Previously permissions were based around functional elements of the Practique system (create an item; edit an item set etc). The new Question Bank Segregation feature gives you the capability to manage permissions across different groups within your organisation, such as specialities or year groups.
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As an administrator, you will be able to determine which areas of the system users can view and edit by tagging them based on a blueprint dimension, with the ability to assign different roles per speciality for those users with multiple.
Question Bank Translation
For customers who need to deliver exams in multiple languages, you can now create and manage translated versions of your questions and resources. Question authors can select the language with which they want to create the question/resource in, and from the original item create a translated version to link them together simply. New filtering is available so you can search for specific language versions. When adding resources to questions Practique will automatically choose the resource in the same language as the question if there is one available.
Users can have a preferred language as authors, so everything they create will be in their language as default.
Multi Part Written Questions
Question authors can construct multi part SAQs so that questions can have sub questions included. Each sub question has a stem, number of lines, number of marks, model answer, comments and tagging associated with it. You can also add image resources and tables at the sub question level. And you can re-order the subquestions easily. The questions can be exported to word should paper based exams be required, and will be available by PDF in a future release. You can also now upload multi-part questions by CSV/XLXS should you be looking to batch larger quantities.
Translated Exam Delivery
Your translated questions can now be delivered electronically or on paper (PDF or Word).
MCQ/SBA Randomisation
You can view questions in the question bank with the answers ordered either alphanumerically or custom order (order they are created in). When delivering the exam you can choose to display the question answers either alphanumerically, custom order or randomly.
Customised Item Review Process
Your organisation can now add extra stages to the default item review process (draft, pending, approved, archived/retired) to more closely match your in-house process. For example 'ready for review' before pending, or 'reviewed' after.
Mark Amendments Logging
For added security any mark amendments have to be approved and an audit trail is now available to assure that any changes to marks are attributed to a user.
Adjustable Borderline Marking
In standard setting, you can now apply ‘Adjustable Borderline Regression’ to set the intercept value for the exam or at individual station level if required. By default, Practique sets the intercept at 1.0, this value can now be adjusted to 1.5 for example.
Marks for SAQ Questions
Question Markers are now able to see maximum marks available for SAQ questions in the word and PDF previews, and space has been added to the questions to allow room for marks to be added. Candidates will also be able to see the total marks for SAQ items in their exam so they know how long their answers should be.
Sequential testing for OSCE
For customers who use sequential testing for OSCE, it is now possible to combine the results of each sequence to produce an overall set of results for a cohort. In sequential testing, candidates who fail the exam (sequence 1) are required to sit a further exam (sequence 2) to determine their overall pass/fail outcome. Candidates who pass sequence 1 undergo no further testing.
Resolved Support Requests
PSD-3494 Fixed answer order for EMQ stems (all stems must use the same order)
PSD-3545 Fixed quotes stripping, fixed and updated tests
PSD-3604 Fixed tests
PSD-3545-Importing-numeric-answers
PSD-3604 XSS - removed |safe filter from page_header template, changed all render_page_header tags to not use HTML code
PSD-3603 updated wording
PSD-3603 Added per exam P4B download count
PSD-3545-Importing-numeric-answers) Removed pdb
PSD-3591 Allow to check exam details even if diet is in progress
PSD-3591 Showing whether an exam is randomised on Edit exam details page
PSD-3595 Display an item set assigned to an exam day on View sessions page
PSD-3584 Answer Option rendering
PSD-3580 Make sure the raw response is exported as a string as well
PSD-3580 Fixed exporting responses with a leading = character
PSD-3469 Do not show View raw responses button for a Combined exam
PSD-3575 Fixed unhandled error when exporting ResultJson objects to XLS
PSD-3553 Itemset name change
PSD-3469 OSCE Marksheet formatting
PSD-3558 Fixed base class for P8
PSD-3450-Marking-VSAQ-Answer-Colours
PSD-3523 Fix wrong session timeout behaviour
PSD-3524 Fixed tests
PSD-3542 XLS file is parsed as "data_only" so it does not keep the formulas during import but evaluates them if possible. That fixes issue with references to other cells that contain the required value
PSD-3526 Updated rounding - format_score method - we round the displayed value according to the round_decimal to keep the same rounding as on other places
PSD-3526 Added configurable decimal rounding method to settings
PSD-3537 Added validator for Max score when importing items
PSD-3517 Item not showing in preview
PSD-3524 Convert carriage returns on import
PSD-3527 Fixed import of items/resources tagged with text dimensions
PSD-3518 Changed integer reference to WSI user roles to constants
PSD-3518 Fixed serializing P4B candidate resources
PSD-2046 a few fixes related to persistent global criteria found after migrations
PSD-3512 Use int_to_letter instead of string.ascii_uppercase to allow more than 26 possible answers
PSD-3505 updated sync script
PSD-3341 WIP - prepare Chime meetings
PSD-3341 Use separate exma files for Candidates and Examiners on OSCE exam
PSD-3452-Update-TinyMCE-Pluggin
PSD-3454 Fixed datepicked on Create combined exam page, exam block date change and reposrs pages
PSD-3420 Fixed OSCE marksheet filename again, Fixed bug in the downloaded file extension, Fixed extension of a generated MHTML file bundle, Log errors caused by invalid PDFs
PSD-3420 Fixed path, Make user web server can access generated files before serving to user, Fixed item and item set preview with resourtces if some resources are invalid PDF files
PSD-2981 PSD-943 fixing "Back to Report" link error when creating items
PSD-2943 avoiding Permission denied when using backlink after editing an item, also removing "Back to item edit" backlink we dont need that anymore
PSD-2926 print login information for examiners is now in this order: circuit, role, room
PSD-2836 Fixed pdf error handling
PSD-2888 It is now possible to reorder automatically assigned item sets on the Pre-select item sets page. This order is preserved when the item sets are assigned to exam days. This applies to multi-block exams only
PSD-2919 Fixed workflow for persistent marksheet criteria if item was submited/rejected
PSD-2919 Added borderline_marker_origin field which allows to reset borderline_marker to the previous value in case of Reject
PSD-2805 Added url handler for downloading the itemset preview Word template. There is no button yet.
PSD-2836 Apply the current filter for count of items not tagged by any blueprint
PSD-2836 Share the filter between item list and blueprint report
PSD-2897 Fixed interview serializing to iPad devices for stations with more than one examination rounds
PSD-2836 Improved blueprint report and added search for not tagged items from the Item list page
PSD-2836 Added a RangeParameter for filtering
PSD-2885 bugfix: if user has no permission to edit items he is not allowed to change the order of custom schema answers as well by drag&drop
PSD-2280 Adding item preview buttons to Marksheet page also
PSD-2046 Implemented actions as background tasks, features for Global criteria changes
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