Enabling spell checker

This is available for Planners and Candidates

Inspera Assessment offers spell checker functionality in Question type - Essay. The spell checker can be enabled for all learners at once in the test options, or for individual learners in the candidate list.

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How to enable Spell Checker

Spell check as you type (SCAYT) will be available for planners to enable in the test settings. This only works for essay-type questions.

In the Test settings, navigate to Exam Day.

  1. Click Enable Spell Checker.
    • Clicking Enable Spell Checker will automatically Enable spell check as you type.

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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.

Enable Spell Checker for an individual candidate

You can enable Spell Checker for an individual candidate within Monitor.

  1. Navigate to the test in the Monitor module.
  2. Select the candidate(s).
  3. Within the candidate options menu, click Enable spell checker.

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Candidate Spell Checker menu 

  1. Click (1) the Disable icon to disable spell checker. 
  2. Click (2) the Settings icon to view Language and Ignore options 
  3. Click (3) the Proofread in dialog to view suggestions or ignore changes. 
  4. View (4) Suggestions found.

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Candidate spell checker settings

Click the Settings icon to adjust the following settings:

  1. Language - Auto Detect will automatically detect the language inputted by the candidate. English is detected as American English unless otherwise specified by the institution. Click the pulldown to select from a list of languages. 
  2. Ignore options 
    1. All caps words - CAPS
    2. Domain names - domain.com
    3. Mixed case - Ctrl+
    4. Words with numbers - h20

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Supported languages

The spellchecker tool in Inspera Assessment supports the following 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

 

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