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The Examination Applications

In this section:

• The Exam Location Detail Application
• The Exam Venue Detail Application
• The Student Examination Instance Application
• The Exam Location List Application
• The Student Course Attempt Exam Location Update Application

The Exam Location Detail Application

The Exam Location Detail Application (EX-LOC-DTL) displays information on exam locations in context via a link in the Student Exam Instance Application (STUD-EXAM).

While not provided as part of the application template, it is possible to have maps of locations display as part of the application. These maps can be displayed in context for the exam location by inserting the following code.

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<img src=http://…/calimages/%%ssfp_get_loc_dtl.p_location_cd%%.gif>
</td></tr>
</table>

The code is placed at the end of the application template, after the CREPEAT command. Provided the location image is saved as a gif file with the same name as the location code, the image is displayed as part of the exam location detail application. For example: if the exam location is a building in Melbourne, the location code maybe MELB. If the map displaying the exam location is called melb.gif, it will be displayed for any examinations held at location MELB.

Note: the src=http://…/calimages/ section of the code is the path where the image can be found. The calimages directory is part of the Callista Connect setup. Refer to the implementation documentation for further information. The use of gif files in the above example is a suggestion. Optionally, any form of graphics file could be inserted, such as tif, or jpeg files. Text could also be inserted into the page in context using txt files or linking to an HTML page. Whichever way the information is provided, the file name must be the same name as the location code.

The location address returned is based on the view LOCATION_ADDR_DISPLAY_TT_V. The view uses a fixed address type of EXAM-LOC to find the address. If an alternative address type is required, the view should be updated. Refer to the ETI Database Installation Notes for further details.

The Exam Venue Detail Application

The Exam Venue Detail Application (EX-VEN-DTL) displays information on exam venues in context via a link in the Student Exam Instance application (STUD-EXAM).

While not provided as part of the application template, it is possible to have maps of venues display as part of the application. These maps can be displayed in context for the exam venue by inserting the following code.

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<img src=http://…/calimages/%%ssfp_get_ven_dtl.p_venue_cd%%.gif>
</td></tr>
</table>

The code is placed at the end of the application template, after the CREPEAT command. Provided the venue image is saved as a gif file with the same name as the venue code, the image is displayed as part of the exam venue detail application. For example: if the exam venue is the gymnasium on campus, the venue code maybe GYM. If the map displaying the exam venue is called gym.gif, it will be displayed for any examinations held at venue GYM.

Note: the src=http://…/calimages/ section of the code is the path where the image can be found. The calimages directory is part of the Callista Connect setup. Refer to the implementation documentation for further information. The use of gif files in the above example is a suggestion. Optionally, any form of graphics file could be inserted, such as tif, or jpeg files. Text could also be inserted into the page in context using txt files or linking to an HTML page. Whichever way the information is provided, the file name must be the same name as the venue code.

The venue address returned is based on the view VENUE_ADDR_DISPLAY_TT_V. The view uses a fixed address type of EXAM-LOC to find the address. If an alternative address type is required, the view should be updated. Refer to the ETI Database Installation Notes for further details.

The Student Examination Instance Application

The Student Examination Instance Application (STUD-EXAM) displays examination details for the user. For example: it could display the unit code, and paper name of an examination as well as details of when, where and what time the examination is held for a student course attempt. It also could display what assessment items are allowed/not allowed, and what the institution supplies for the exam.

Some of the features of the student examination instance application are:

• The ability to 'hide' the venue and seating number information. The exam timetable venue/seat display date alias is used to prevent students from viewing their venue and seating details for examinations in the STUD-EXAM application within Callista Connect. For example: an exam timetable is released part way through a teaching period to notify students of when and where their examinations are to be held. However, at this time, seating and venue details have not been finalised. Setting the date alias suppresses the display of venue and seating details until the current date is >= the 'venue date'. The 'venue date' would be set to a date when the finalised exam timetable is to be released. This functionality does not prevent the display of venue and seating details in other examination related reports such as the Examination Timetable report (ASSR4621).
  The exam timetable venue/seat display date alias is defined in ASSF01N0 (Maintain Assessments Calendar Configuration). The date alias must have a System calendar category of EXAM to have effect and should have an instance created in the required exam periods.
• The links to the exam location detail and exam venue applications. The links must first be defined as ANCHORS in the Web Administrator. These link codes are then selected as the web element link codes for the STUD-EXAM application in SSFF1300 (Maintain System Self Serve Application Data).
• The application displays a message detailing from what date and time the examination details were based on. For example: This exam timetable is based on enrolment details as at: 17/3/2000 10:05. This date and time are recorded as part of the examination timetable creation through ETI. An Oracle date is recorded that corresponds to the last roundtrip of examination data between Callista and ETI. For further details refer to the ETI database installation notes in the technical documentation.

The Exam Location List Application

The Exam Location List Application (EXAM-LOC) is not used as a part of the above applications. It is used as part of the student course attempt update application (SCA-UPD) to allow user's to change their examination location. The application is normally accessed via a search button from the course attempt update application. It provides an LOV listing the available exam locations that user's can select from.

The web page code containing the EXAM-LOC application must be the same code as used in the SCA-UPD application template. This is to allow the EXAM-LOC application to appear as a separate window when the user selects the search button. Either use the same code as in the application template or update the application template to reflect the institution defined web page code used for the EXAM-LOC application the Maintain Web Page form in the Web Administrator.

For examination locations to appear in the LOV, the Self Serve Facility indicator must be selected in ORGF0131 (Maintain Locations).

The Student Course Attempt Exam Location Update Application

The Student Course Attempt Exam Location Update Application (SCA-EX-UPD) allows students to update their nominated examination location for their course attempt.

The Student Course Attempt Exam Location Update Application can be controlled through the use of cohort process windows. A cohort process window created for the Process Type SCA-EX-UPD defines the type of students that can access the exam update and application and when access is allowed.

Last Modified on 16 May, 2007 4:04 PM

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