{"id":8312,"date":"2025-08-01T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:10:55","slug":"preparation-for-august-assessment-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/08\/01\/preparation-for-august-assessment-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation for August Assessment Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The August Assessment Period is taking place from 4<sup>th<\/sup> to 15<sup>th<\/sup> August 2025, with Inspera Digital Exams running from 7<sup>th<\/sup> to 15<sup>th<\/sup> August. In this blog post, we are sharing communications that are useful for Module Teams to share with their students ahead of their Inspera exams, along with information around support with marking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communications for Students\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Module Teams are encouraged to share the following communications with their students. These communications are also shared via emails with module teams once the exam is set up by our Digital Exams Team:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Preparing for your [module code] Inspera digital exam: make sure you know your log in details<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To sit your upcoming Inspera digital exam you will need to know your University login details<\/em> <em>(username and password).&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please check that you know your login details<\/em><strong><em> before the day of the exam<\/em><\/strong><em> and that you can successfully sign into a campus Cluster PC. <\/em><strong><em>If you do not know your login details on the day of the exam it may not be possible to reset them before the exam starts<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your username begins with a letter (usually <\/em><strong><em>c<\/em><\/strong><em>) followed by <\/em><strong><em>the middle 7 numbers <\/em><\/strong><em>from your student number, which you can find on your smartcard. E.g. if your smartcard shows your student number is 212345678, your username is c1234567.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you cannot remember your password, you can <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/account-billing\/reset-a-forgotten-microsoft-account-password-eff4f067-5042-c1a3-fe72-b04d60556c37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>reset it online<\/em><\/a><em> or you can <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/support\/itservicedesk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>contact the IT Service Desk<\/em><\/a><em> for help. If you have your password but would like to change it to something that is easier to remember you can <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/services.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/core-services\/account-admin\/usernameandpassword\/passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>change your password online<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To help you prepare for your assessment, you can try out our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ncl.instructure.com\/enroll\/3PDGCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>demo exams<\/em><\/a><em> via Canvas. There is a locked down demo and an open book demo. Both demo exams reflect the same demo content. The locked down demo allows students to experience the in-person Inspera exam security, therefore this particular demo should only be taken within a Campus PC cluster (as the required software will be installed).<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a student page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/academic-skills-kit\/assessment\/inspera-digital-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Academic Skills Kit<\/a> about Inspera which students may wish to look at ahead of your exams.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marking your Inspera Exams&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the Inspera exams have taken place, Module Teams mark the exams under the Grade area of Inspera. You can find various <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2024\/05\/23\/inspera-marking-hints-and-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>marking hints and tips<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>in a previous blog post about this.\u00a0You can also view our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/marking-exams\/\">Marking Exams in Inspera<\/a> webpage, as well as our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/inspera-feedback-release\/\">Inspera Feedback Release<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Save the Date&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspera are hosting an on-campus event with our users on <strong>Wednesday 5<\/strong><strong><em>th<\/em><\/strong><strong> November <\/strong>(Time TBC \u2013 but will be PM). Further details will be circulated to Module Teams using Inspera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact <a href=\"mailto:digital.exams@newcastle.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital.exams@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a> where a member of our team can assist you.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may also wish to join our <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/team\/19%3Aff1tZTZmgKHyAwIFltT4JEr78DqBfMnLLB3orSromlM1%40thread.tacv2\/conversations?groupId=d0ef542a-4700-4d38-abdb-a9385fdb603b&amp;tenantId=9c5012c9-b616-44c2-a917-66814fbe3e87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Inspera Assessment Teams site<\/strong><\/a> to stay up to date with updates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August Assessment Period is taking place from 4th to 15th August 2025, with Inspera Digital Exams running from 7th to 15th August. In this blog post, we are sharing communications that are useful for Module Teams to share with their students ahead of their Inspera exams, along with information around support with marking. Communications &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/08\/01\/preparation-for-august-assessment-period\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparation for August Assessment Period&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[655,708],"tags":[707,710,653,706,754],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-inspera","tag-digital-assessment","tag-digital-exams","tag-digital-exams-service","tag-inspera","tag-resits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}