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Benefits

These are the benefits we see in Next Exams' design. What you gain depends on how you assess people, so treat this list as a starting point: adapt the software to your needs and you may find benefits of your own.

For authors and teachers

  • Reusable questions
    • Questions live in a bank, independently of exams
    • Editing a question updates it everywhere, except in attempts already under way
  • Less marking
    • Fourteen of the fifteen question types grade themselves
    • Essays queue for a human marker
  • Evidence about your questions: item analysis shows difficulty and discrimination
  • Existing work carries over: import from CSV, Aiken, GIFT, Moodle XML or QTI 2.1

For examinees

  • Answers are kept: the runner autosaves, so someone who closes the browser can return and continue, until the time limit, closing time or inactivity period is reached
  • A paper that doesn't shift: the question set is frozen at start, so editing the exam never changes a running attempt
  • No half-marked papers: review stays locked until every essay is marked
  • Clear next steps: per-subject breakdowns name the areas to revise
  • An accessible exam flow: remediated to WCAG 2.1 AA, based on our own testing
  • Works with scripting off: the runner still submits without JavaScript

For invigilators

  • See who needs help first: the live board puts whoever needs a human at the top
  • Act quickly: one-click help for a person or a whole room
  • No Joomla account needed: invites work by link, PIN or QR code, always scoped to a single exam
  • A record of what happened: every action is written to an audit log

For administrators and developers

  • Assessment stays on your site: questions, results and personal data stay in your own Joomla installation
  • Enable only what you use: the App Manager switches twenty-one optional capabilities off without deleting data
  • Trusted scoring: the clock, question set and score live on the server, so a tampered browser changes nothing
  • Privacy tools: GDPR export and erasure through Joomla's privacy component
  • Open to integration: LTI 1.3, signed webhooks and a REST API
  • Open licence: GNU General Public License v2 or later

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