Inspera External User Group
The Inspera Digital Exams Team at Newcastle have set up and led on a user group for Inspera users at other institutions in the UK.
Through existing connections and the support of our Account Manager at Inspera, we have contacted colleagues in similar roles to ourselves (Learning Enhancement and Technology Advisers) to create a group where we can share best practice, learn from each other and have the opportunity to discuss aspects of our Inspera use.
The group first met in November 2024 and as of June 2025 has 33 members across 13 institutions. We have received lots of positive feedback on how useful the group is, and we have enjoyed meeting other fellow Inspera users.
The Inspera Leads at Newcastle are always looking for ways to improve the service our Digital Exams Team can offer and work with Inspera to share feature requests. The group have been sharing what their priorities are in terms of things we would like to see in Inspera so that we can share this with Inspera.
Inspera Priorities at Newcastle
Maddie and Kimberly of the Digital Exams Team, along with some of our academics who use Inspera, took part in some user research with Inspera in relation to marking and feedback.
In relation to marking and feedback, our key priorities are:
- Release of feedback restrictions, i.e. flexibility to release essay feedback comments without releasing banks of MCQs.
- Editing questions after an exam i.e. where mistakes have been found afterwards upon marking. A request has been highlighted whereby, for auto marked questions, users can use answer key corrections (like the functionality of MCQs) but for all for auto marked questions.
- Data availability for questions used in exams. Inspera are currently working on their analytics, with a psychometric dashboard currently available for the Inspera Digital Exam Leads to access.
Other feature requests we support, which are in relation to question authoring, include:
- Author tab to include example questions and question sets.
- ‘Tick box’ to confirm when a question set has been finalised.
- Ability to have template of example question sets to share across users.
- Being able to collapse sections in assessments to avoid having to scroll up and down when editing one of the later sections.
If you would like to know more about our priorities at Newcastle, you can get in touch with the Digital Exams Team via: Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk.