In the After test settings, you can configure the Post-Submission Review (PSR) to determine what candidates see once they finish a test. This article explains how to set availability dates, choose between web or Lockdown Browser access, and select which details—such as correct answers, marks, or predefined feedback—are visible to the candidate.

Post-submission review 

To enable candidates to view their submission after the test has ended, you need to enable the option and select when the submission and what information should be available.

• Allow candidate post-submission review: When enabled, the candidates can log into Inspera after the test has ended, to see their submission. If no date is set there is no time limit, and the candidates will always have access. To restrict access, select an available from and to date. Both dates are including the given date. 

When the Submission Revision is available for the Candidate

The Planner can decide when the Candidate will be able to review their submission:

• Availability From and Availability To: Defines the start and end date for the candidate to be able to access their submission. By default these values are set to Always, meaning that the candidate will be able to access the submission after the test is closed.

  Although you can grant candidates instant access to their submission after they have submitted their test by setting the Availability from date to the test's start date, we recommend the setting Availability from: Always and enable Instant post delivery access. The latter is the setting that is intended for the purpose of instant access.

• Instant post delivery access: The candidates may view or download their submission immediately after submitting, even if the test end time has not passed. Please note that if instant availability is enabled an available from date restriction cannot be selected.
• Allow post-submission review in Lockdown Browser only: Requires that Safe Exam Browser is enabled and is used together with Instant post-delivery access. This option lets the candidates see the submission directly after submitting, and before they leave the lockdown browser. This is instant access, and the candidates cannot see their submission in future sessions in lockdown browsers. 
  If this option is enabled, test takers cannot log back into web version of IA and view what they submitted.
  If this option is disabled, test takers can log back into the web-version of IA and view what they submitted.

Information available for the Candidate

When reviewing their submission the candidate may have access to the following information depending on the test settings:

• Questions title
• Questions type (Multiple Choice, Essay, ...)
• Questions status (Correct/Wrong, Unanswered)
• Questions text
• Candidate's answers
• Correct answers (if automatically correct)
• Questions Marks

The Planner has these options

• Questions and answers excluding marks: When this option is selected, the candidate can navigate through their submission and in each question they will be able to see the question title and text as well their answer. At the end, they will be able to see the summary page with questions title, type and status. This is the default status of the setting. This is the option selected by default.
• Questions with correct answers and marks: When this option is selected, the candidate can navigate through their submission and in each question they will be able to see the question title and text as well their answer and the correct answer (in most automatically marked questions). At the end, they will be able to see the summary page with questions title, type, status and marks (achieved and maximum marks).
• Marks only on summary page: When this option is selected, the candidate will not be able to navigate through their submission, being automatically redirected to the summary page. Here, they will have access to the questions title, type, status and marks (achieved and maximum marks).

Other Candidate settings

• Allow candidates to sign off own submission: Selecting this option will allow candidates to delete their own submission when final grading is confirmed. ‘Remove submission’ button can be found in the archive tab on Candidate Dashboard. This needs to be activated by Service Desk.

Feedback

• If the Author has added predefined feedback to questions, or to alternatives in supported question types, this section will determine whether feedback is visible for the candidate or not. 

  Read more about predefined feedback

• This section is only available if the Allow candidate post-submission review is also available and it defines what feedback should be shown to the candidate per question.

• The options in this section only become available if the question set contains feedback on one or more questions and/or feedback for one or more of its alternatives. 

  See how predefined feedback can be added here.

• Feedback will be shown to candidates immediately after submission if Instant post delivery access is enabled.

These are the feedback options

• Include general feedback per question: The candidate see the feedback provided in each question, if available.
• Include feedback on alternatives: The candidate will see the feedback for all the alternatives. Leave it disabled if you only want to show the feedback for the alternative the candidate chose.
• Include feedback on response outcomes