Student Lifecycle › Examinations
Exams
Each exam: who sits it, when, in which rooms (a large exam is split across rooms) and who invigilates. A change that gives a student two exams at once, too many in a day, or a room more candidates than exam seats is refused.
Where to find it
- Module: Student Lifecycle
- Group: Rooms & Exams
- Section: Examinations
- Screen: Exams
Address in the console: /slcm/exams
List · 11 columns · 13 fields on its form · 3 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | Code | exam_no |
| Title | Text | title |
| Period | Code | period_no |
| Date | Date | exam_date |
| From | Code | start_time |
| To | Code | end_time |
| Candidates | Number | candidates |
| Seats | Number | seats_allocated |
| Rooms | Text | rooms |
| Invigilators | Text | invigilators |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exam period required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Section | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Or choose a course, for one exam sat by all its sections. |
| Course | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Assessment it marks | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Title required | Text | ||
| Type | Choice | final, midterm, resit, practical, oral | |
| Length (minutes) required | Number | ||
| Room type | Choice | lecture, lab, seminar, tutorial, exam_hall, studio, computer_lab, other | |
| Date | Date | ||
| From | Time | ||
| To | Time | ||
| Keep it where it is when scheduling | Yes or no | ||
| Notes | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.