How does an e-examination on campus work?
When you are about to take an e-examination, your teacher has prepared the questions in the service Inspera Assessment. If needed, the teacher has also prepared with, for example, websites, audio files or PDF files. You will write your answers using either your own or a prebooked computer. A secure web browser will lock the computer and only show the exam content.
Here is a checklist on how to prepare yourself for taking an e-examination.
Sign up for an on-campus e-examination
You always need to sign up at least ten working days before the exam date if you intend to attend a written exam or e-examination. To be able to sign up for an exam, you must be registered on the course, and the signing up period must have opened. You can cancel your exam attendance until the time when the exam begins.
Read more about signing up to an exam
Preparations for an e-examination using your own computer
To go through with an e-examination with your own computer, you need to make sure that the wireless network Eduroam is configured on your computer. You also need to install the secure web browser Safe Exam Browser. To make sure that your computer is working before the exam, you are recommended to take a demo exam.
Go through with your preparations in the order described below:
1. Configure Eduroam
2. Download and install Safe Exam Browser
3. Take a demo exam
- Check 1–5 days before each exam occasion that your computer works in Inspera and that all software including Safe Exam Browser is updated, by conducting a demo exam.
- Guide: Take a demo exam
4. Make sure you know the login details for your UMU ID
- You need to memorise both the username and the password for your UMU ID. It is not sufficient to have them stored in your browser.
- You can reset your login details here: https://administrationsverktyg.umu.se/Settings/ResetUser
- If you do not remember your username and/or your password when you are in the exam hall, it could lead to you not being able to take your exam.
Prebook if you need to borrow a computer
If you do not have a computer or if you could not get your computer to work when you took the demo exam in Inspera, you have the option of prebooking a computer. Prebook a computer through TimeEdit.
Read the manual if you need help with booking a computer.
The computer will be prepared for you in the exam hall. You will be directed to your seat by the exam supervisor after the identity check when entering the hall.
Checklist before an e-examination on campus
It is important to be well-prepared before an e-examination and below are some preparations you need to make and things you need to bring to the exam.
E-examination on your own computer
- Your computer and computer charger.
- Eduroam configured.
- Safe Exam Browser installed.
- Username and the password for your UMU ID. It is not sufficient to have them stored in your browser.
- A valid photo ID.
- Approved aids.
E-examination on a prebooked computer
- Prebook a computer.
- Username and the password for your UMU ID.
- A valid photo ID.
- Approved aids.
Settings during an exam
An e-examination in Inspera is conducted in a secure browser. At the time of the exam, a number of settings are available to you as a student.
Take part of the exam results
Once the e-examination has been assessed and the results are published, it will be available to you in Inspera. Log in to Inspera using your UMU ID and view your result by opening the exam that you find under “Archive”.
Guide: View an assessed exam in Inspera
Sign off your submission
Once your assessment is complete, you have the right to get the original or a copy of your exam submission. Since a submission in Inspera is digital, getting the original of your exam submission means you have to delete your exam submission. Please note that if you delete your exam submission, they cannot be recreated and Umeå University will no longer have any access to them. In the system, this is called "to sign off".
Guide: Sign off your submission
Support
Contact Servicedesk (the IT support) about any technical problems or questions you have around using Inspera before the exam. If you experience technical problems during the exam, the exam supervisor will help you.
