This is available for Planners and Candidates. 

Inspera Assessment offers spell checker functionality within the Essay question type to assist candidates with their writing. The spell checker tool provides spell checking as you type (SCAYT). It can be a valuable aid for candidates with dyslexia or other forms of reading and writing difficulties, as well as for general quality assurance of submissions.

This article explains how to enable spell checker for all candidates at the test level or for individual candidates, details the candidate's experience with the spell checker menu and settings, and lists supported languages.

Supported languages

The spell checker tool in Inspera Assessment supports a wide range of languages. 

• American English Arabic Australian English Brazilian Portuguese British English Canadian English Canadian French Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Icelandic

  Italian Japanese Korean Māori New Zealand English Norwegian Bokmal Norwegian Nynorsk Polish Portuguese Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Swedish Ukrainian Welsh

How to enable spell checker

You can enable the spell checker functionality for a whole test, or for individual candidates.

1. Enable spell checker for all candidates on a test

   Planners can enable spell checking for all candidates taking a specific test. This includes the spell check as you type functionality. 

   

   1. In the Test settings, navigate to Exam Day.
   2. Click Enable Spell Checker. Clicking Enable Spell Checker will automatically enable spell check as you type for the test. 
   3. Preview how this will look for students by clicking Next and previewing your essay question type in the Design page.

   If the test setting is enabled or disabled after one or more candidates has already started the test, the change will not take effect for those candidates until they navigate to a new question.

2. Enable spell checker for individual candidates

   You can enable Spell Checker for a specific candidate directly within the Monitor module. 

   

   1. Navigate to the test in the Monitor module.
   2. Select the candidate(s) you want to enable the spell checker for.
   3. Within the candidate options menu (found at the bottom of the page), click Enable spell checker.

Candidate Experience with Spell Checker

Candidates interact with the spell checker directly within the Essay question type.

1. Candidate Spell Checker Menu

   The spell checker provides a menu with several options for managing detected spelling issues:

   1. Click the Disable icon to turn off the spell checker.
   2. Click the Settings icon to view language and ignore options.
   3. Click Proofread in dialog to open a dialog box that allows you to view suggestions or ignore changes.

   4. You can also see the count of Suggestions found.

      

2. Candidate Spell Checker Settings

   By clicking the Settings icon within the spell checker menu, candidates can adjust the following:

   • Language - Auto Detect: This option will automatically detect the language inputted by the candidate. English is typically detected as American English unless otherwise specified by the institution. You can click the pulldown to select from a list of other supported languages.
   • Ignore options: Choose to ignore specific types of text:
     • All caps words (e.g., CAPS)
     • Domain names (e.g., domain.com)
     • Mixed case (e.g., Ctrl+)

     • Words with numbers (e.g., h20)