) while iPad was disconnected from the WiFi
Following table lists all supported combinations of Practique application and Apple iOS versions with indication on which versions of iOS Practique application has been extensively tested.
Practique version | iOS 7 and lower | iOS 8.0.x - iOS 8.3.x Installation via backend '/ipad page' not supported. Install via Apple Configurator or MDM | iOS 8.4.x | iOS 9.0.x - iOS 9.2.x | iOS 9.3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 4.0.x | No | Yes? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| >= 2.1.27 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| <= 2.1.26 | No | No | No | No | No |
New versions Practique for iPad will discontinue support for all versions of iOS8 by 1st September 2016. In order to use Practique for iPad on iOS8 after the 1st September 2016 you will need to keep using latest version at that time. Newer versions released after 1st September 2016 will drop support iOS8. |
No - Not supported for the iOS version Yes? - Supported, testing required Yes - Supported, fully tested |
Practique is supported on iOS8 and iOS9 which means that in order to use Practique for iPad you need to have iPad device which is able to run iOS 8 or iOS 9. Table bellow shows compatibility of iPad devices with iOS8 and iOS9.
If you need to identify your device you can use use http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/
Some devices do not support new features (Slide Over, Picture-in-Picture, Split View, Transit in maps) of iOS 9. Practique does not use any of these features so any iOS 9 compatible device is fully compatible with Practique.
Device | iOS 8 | iOS <9.3 *denotes partial iOS9 support | iOS >=9.3 | Practique |
|---|---|---|---|---|
iPad 1 (iPad1,1) | No | No | No | No |
iPad Mini 1, 2, 3 (iPad2,5, iPad2,6, iPad2,7, iPad4,4, iPad4,5, iPad4,6, iPad4,7, iPad4,8, iPad4,9) | Yes | Yes* | Yes* | Yes |
iPad Mini 4 (iPad5,1, iPad5,2) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iPad 2 (iPad2,1, iPad2,2, iPad2,3, iPad2,4) | Yes | Yes* | No | Yes |
iPad 3, 4 (iPad3,1, iPad3,2, iPad3,3, iPad3,4, iPad3,5, iPad3,6) | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes |
iPad Air (iPad4,1, iPad4,2, iPad4,3) | Yes | Yes* | Yes* | Yes |
iPad Air 2 (iPad5,3, iPad5,4) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iPad Pro 12.9" & 9.7" (iPad6,7, iPad6,8, ?) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Upcoming release is next major update of the Practique application. While we publish the current progress of the release we don't provide pre-releases to customers by default.
If you wish to participate in testing pre-release version of Practique application please contact us via Service desk. If you choose to participate in testing you can always easily revert to any previous stable version of Practique application.
We have added possibility for information that Candidate/Student did not attend an exam to be propagated in real time to Examiner and Marshall iPads.
Examiner independent marking
In certain exam situations it is not practical to require Marshall role during the exam as Examiners may be in different locations with/without Wi-Fi connectivity. In this case it may be more practical to allow Examiners to mark any candidates on their schedule and do not require Marshall to manage examination rounds.
This page contains list of releases and changes for the Practique application for iPad.
Fixes
PRACIOS-65: Written - Exit SAM (Single Application Mode) when exam is finished
When exam team stops Session on the Practique server SAM needs to be unlocked for any Student who is using the iPad application otherwise students will end up with locked iPads. This has not been the case due to the bug in the iPad application.
iPad application has been updated to make sure that the SAM is disabled properly when Session is stopped on the Practique Server.
PRACIOS-47: Written - Exit SAM (Single Application Mode) when user's time for an exam expire (only for exams with specified time limit)
Practique for iPad contained bug which caused application not to disable SAM mode when user's allocated time for an exam expired.
This has now been fixed and user is correctly logged out and SAM disabled.
Improvements
PRACIOS-122: OSCE - Unable to submit mark sheet when it defines mandatory question which uses schema without any answers
It is possible to create mark sheet question (of type Discrete) which uses schema without any answers defined. This is used (as a workaround) to add arbitrary text row to the mark sheet. Because such a question is just an ordinary question on the mark sheet editor it is possible make it mandatory - Practique will not stop users from doing so. This will however create marksheet which is not possible to submit on the iPads because iPad will require an answer for such a question.
iPad mark sheet validation has been updated so that it ignores questions (of type Discrete) which do not have any answers defined to protect against this situation.
Fixes
PRACIOS-69: WRITTEN - Certain questions were not rendered properly after device has been rotated
When device has been rotated while on the last or first question of the exam then subsequent navigation to previous/next question resulted in question text not being completely visible or the space for the question text become too large.
Question rendering has been fixed to reliably resize question text to fit screen size and resize reliably after device is rotated.
Improvements
PRACIOS-115, PSD-192: When Marksheet amendments are allowed do not display “You cannot reverse this action.” as part of the submit marks confirmation message
Fixes
PRACIOS-113, PSD-191: Protect against possible rare conditions resulting in marks corruption
We have identified possible scenario when marks could potentially be corrupted during input on the iPad device. Scenario is very rare and has been observed with 1/100 frequency and does depend on the setup of the concrete exam/marksheet as well as actions of the examiner and realtime exam status changes.
Steps taken to mitigate the issue:
Marksheet code updated to minimise influence of the Examiner actions and Exam status changes
Added diagnostic information logging to verify issues does not occur again
PRACIOS-98: Fixed rare application crash when user tried to open Application Details screen (using ) while iPad was disconnected from the WiFi
This was due to the fact that the IP address of the device can not be determined. Application Details now opens and IP address is reported as "Unknown".
PRACIOS-114: Fixed situation when User had to tap twice in order to de-select already selected option on the Marksheet.
This now works as expected and single tap de-selectes previously selected option.
In case User filled in the Marksheet and navigated to the Schedule screen and back to Marksheet where he/she wanted to de-select previously selected answer he would need to tap twice for the intended change to take effect. This issue only impacted situations where users had filled marks and navigated back to the Marksheet not when they were filling in the Marksheet in one session.
Fixes
PSD-169: Unable to launch app in offline mode under certain circumstances
This is major release of Practique for iPad, please refer to separate release notes 4.0.0 Comenius.
This release is required by the fact that Fry-IT Apple distribution certificates expired and had to be re-newed. As this requires us to acquire new certificates from Apple and reissue applications with new certificates we have to release new application.
Please upgrade your iPads to at least this version of the application.