Heads up 💡

Inspera Proctoring Rebranding 

In the coming months, we will share details about a new suite of Inspera proctoring products, including Inspera Live Proctoring. In preparation, we are changing the name of our existing remote proctoring product to Inspera Resilience Proctoring. Over the next few weeks you will start to see this name change reflected in the test setup settings, as well as in our Help Center articles. Read more to find out more about these proctoring solutions.

Inspera Originality Updates Coming to Integration with Inspera Assessment

The new features and updates from the September release of Inspera Originality will become available for the Inspera Assessment integration later in October, with general availability coming in November.

Improved Header in New Candidate Dashboard

New in this release  🚀

Author ✏️

Randomization of Question Alternatives (Generally Available)

We have introduced selective randomization of alternatives for the Matching/ pairing question type. Authors can now control the randomization of rows, columns, or both simultaneously. This enhancement ensures a more accurate assessment of learning goals by minimizing potential mismatches between candidate knowledge and recorded responses due to varying column orders.

Deliver 🤖

Multiple Attempts for Manually Marked Questions (Generally Available)

The Multiple Attempts feature is now generally available for manually marked questions. The newly added functionality supports Manually Marked Questions to allow candidates to take assessments with all types of questions multiple times, providing opportunities for improved understanding and performance.

Key Features:

• Multiple Attempts: Candidates can now retake assessments that include manually or automatically marked questions. It drives iterative learning, enabling candidates to refine their knowledge and skills with each attempt.

• Performance-Based Progression: Graders have the flexibility to determine if a candidate qualifies for additional attempts based on their performance in previous ones. This ensures that each candidate has the opportunity to achieve the learning goal with the number of attempts they take tailored to their individual needs and progress.

Support for New SEB versions for Windows

Inspera is now supporting SEB 3.6.0 and SEB 3.7.1 for Windows, featuring new enhancements and fixes for issues found in earlier versions. We highly recommend that all customers upgrade to this latest version to ensure maximum integrity and a seamless experience.

Integrations🔌

Changes to asynchronous export APIs

Accessibility enhancements 🌐🔍🖱️

Test summary page ARIA labels

The tab list and tab roles now follow the ARIA Design Pattern. Users can move focus between tabs using the arrow keys. 

Inspera Originality 🕵️

New UI Language Options

In addition to the currently supported UI language options, including English, Swedish, and both Bokmål and Nynorsk for Norwegian, Inspera Originality now supports two additional languages: German and Spanish. This expansion broadens our support for a wider range of users and enhances the overall user experience.

Personal Identifiable Information

The Personal Identifiable Information feature guarantees that privileged or private information is not stored from submissions on the platform. This enhances privacy by preventing the retention of confidential details during the originality-checking process. Administrators can access this feature at the institutional level, allowing them to specify which content types should not be stored from submissions, including:

• Person (first name, last name, full name)
• Phone numbers (international and domestic formats)
• Email addresses
• IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Geolocation (Country, city, street names, ZIP codes)
• Credit card numbers
• International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN)
• NRP (A person’s Nationality, religious or political group)
• US Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
• Dates and timestamps (e.g., date of birth)
• URLs (web addresses)
• Medical license numbers
• Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs)

Heads up 💡

Inspera Proctoring Rebranding

In the coming months, we will be sharing details about a new suite of Inspera proctoring products, including Inspera Live Proctoring. In preparation, we are changing the name of our existing remote proctoring product to Inspera Resilience Proctoring. Over the next few weeks you will start to see this name change reflected in the test setup settings, as well as in our Help Center articles. Read more to find out more about these proctoring solutions.

Inspera Originality Updates Coming To Integration With Inspera Assessment

The new additions, features, and updates of Inspera Originality from the September release will become available for the integration between Inspera Originality and Inspera Assessment in October. 

Inspera Originality New UI Languages

In October, Inspera Originality will introduce two additional UI language options, including Spanish and German, adding to customization and user-friendliness. 

Inspera Originality: Removing Personal Information from Submissions

Coming in October, Inspera Originality will feature a new functionality, allowing users to remove personal or privileged information from submissions. 

Safe Exam Browser

Inspera is going to end the support for the current version 3.2.5 for Mac in January 2025. We urge all customers using Mac to upgrade to version 3.3.3 before that date to prevent any disruptions

New in this release 🚀

The New Candidate Dashboard and Login Page is now the default for all users from 3rd September. The new interfaces drive a refreshed and enhanced experience, offering various benefits that improve usability, accessibility, and customization, including: 

• Accelerate Learning: Exclusive formative capabilities like Assessment Path and Multiple Attempts are available only on the new dashboard.
• Customize Your Branding: Enjoy various customization options for your institution's branding on both the new interfaces.
• Accessibility Focus: We're committed to WCAG 2.2 AAA/AA compliance, with ongoing accessibility improvements exclusive to the new interfaces.
• Expanded Language Support: Any new languages added are exclusively available on the new interfaces only. 

Author ✏️

Symbolic Math Improvements 

• Updated the Question Type label so ‘Symbolic Math’ will be translated into the relevant languages.
• Updated the ‘Learn More’ link within the Response Outcomes to take users straight to the relevant Help Centre page.
• Resolved an error where Response Outcomes could not be removed or reordered in certain circumstances.
• Resolved an error where Response Outcome feedback wasn’t getting saved in certain circumstances.

Deliver 🤖

Multiple Attempts for Manually Marked Questions (Closed Beta)

We are excited to introduce the Multiple Attempts feature, designed to enhance the learning and assessment process for candidates. This new functionality allows candidates to take an assessment multiple times, providing opportunities for improved understanding and performance.

Key Features:

• Multiple Attempts: Candidates can now retake assessments that include manually or automatically marked questions. This feature supports iterative learning, enabling candidates to refine their knowledge and skills with each attempt.
• Performance-Based Progression: Planners or graders have the flexibility to determine if a candidate qualifies for additional attempts based on their performance in previous ones. This ensures that each candidate has the opportunity to achieve the learning goal with the number of attempts they take tailored to their individual needs and progress.

Grade 💯

Marking 2.0 navigation and workspace refresh

We’ve restructured the workspaces to better align with common grading workflows, aiming to make the process more intuitive and efficient. The improvements include: 

• The workspaces are now organized and connected to reflect the different evaluation perspectives that graders take in common grading workflows. 
  • Menu structure change and navigation breadcrumbs are introduced as aids to improve orientation and context awareness.
  • The ‘Grading overview’, ‘Candidate in focus’, ‘Marking’, and ‘Questions’ workspaces are now connected with context-specific hyperlinks to improve usability and the ease of wayfinding 
• Shortcut cards are introduced in ‘Grading overview’ (formerly ‘Overview’) to guide user action 
• “The ‘Candidate in focus’ workspace replaces the ‘Results’ workspace to improve usability and facilitate a clearer use case of evaluating a candidate’s performance.

We are constantly looking for participants of user research to improve Marking 2.0. Please fill out this form if you are interested in participating.

Safe Exam Browser 💻  

SEB macOS Version Update 

Inspera is now supporting the latest SEB version 3.3.3 for macOS, featuring new enhancements and fixes for issues found in earlier versions. We highly recommend that all customers upgrade to this latest version to ensure maximum integrity and a seamless experience. Please be aware that support for the current version 3.2.5 will end in January 2025. 

Candidate experience 👩🏻‍🎓

Decimal Separator Improvements in Numeric Entry and Numerical Simulation

Currently, candidates can input either commas (',') or points ('.') as decimal separators in Numeric Entry and Numerical Simulation question types. However, Inspera converts commas to points, which could lead to confusion for candidates and institutions where a decimal point is consistently used. To address this, in May we  introduced an on-demand feature that provides two clarifications:

• In the “Author” interface, authors are informed of the conversion of commas into points.
• In the “Candidate” interface, only points as decimal separators are accepted. If they try to enter a comma or any other character, they will see a prompt asking them to use a decimal point.
  
  Candidates trying to enter a comma will see this information box

Inspera Originality 🕵️

New Originality Report Design 

Inspera Originality now features a new design for the Originality Report, providing users with additional granularity and following a layered approach to displaying analysis information. 

• Summary View - The summary view of the Originality Report provides a comprehensive overview, with the document text and highlighted sentences on the left side and analysis details on the right. Users can see a summary of the similarity analysis (Original & Translated), AI authorship analysis, and manipulation analysis.  Additionally, users can view further information for each analysis, such as top sources for original and translation similarity and top manipulation flags. Filtering capabilities allow users to filter between sources and manipulation flags, and they can include or exclude specific top sources and manipulation flags as needed. These include/exclude options apply to each filter for both top sources and top manipulation flags.
• Sentence Highlights - In Summary View, clicking on highlighted sentences displays detailed, easy-to-understand information about each sentence. Each sentence highlight has icons showing how many analyses have flagged that sentence. Users can switch between different analyses for a particular sentence and perform exclude/include actions for all analyses, except for the AI Authorship analysis.
• In-Depth Analysis View - The new Originality Report design features an in-depth view, allowing users to view even more detailed information for each analysis. This is where users can access detailed analysis information on findings at the document and sentence levels.
  • Similarity Analysis In-Depth
    • The in-depth view of the similarity analysis displays essential information on findings for both original and translated language similarity, first showing document-wide findings for both, and then sentence-specific findings when clicking on a highlighted sentence within the in-depth view.
      • Original Language
        • Document Level Information: Users can view document-wide findings for the Original Language similarity including linked matching sources, indexed and ranked by similarity percentage, that users can exclude/include. Performing exclude/include actions will adjust the overall similarity percentage.
        • Sentence Level Information: At the sentence level for original language similarity, Inspera Originality provides detailed information for a given sentence, showing:
          • Matching Source - provides a link to access the matching source
          • Matching Sentence - displays the matched sentence in the document
          • Classification - provides a classification based on the detected sentence similarity
          • Sentence Similarity - displays the level of sentence similarity as a percentage
          • Contextual Similarity - displayed the level of contextual similarity between the two sentences (sentence from document & sentence from matching source) as a percentage.
          • Proximity - related to context similarity and provides the average word proximity between the two sentences. (sentence from document & sentence from matching source).
    • Translated Language
      • Document Level: At the document level, the in-depth view of the Translated Language Similarity Analysis supplies links to matching sources for all translation findings in each separate language included in the analysis (up to 3 maximum). Languages are ranked according to their comprehensive similarity percentage.  For each language, sources are given an index number for easy identification in the Originality Report and ranked by similarity percentage
      • Sentence Level: At the sentence level for translated language similarity, Inspera Originality provides detailed information for a given sentence. Clicking on a highlighted sentence displays: 
        • • Translated Sentence - displays the translated sentence from the matching sources
          • Matching Source - provides a link to access the matching source
          • Matching Sentence - displays the matched sentence in the document
          • Classification - provides a classification based on the detected sentence similarity
          • Sentence Similarity - displays the level of sentence similarity as a percentage
          • Contextual Similarity - displayed the level of contextual similarity between the two sentences (sentence from document & sentence from matching source) as a percentage.
          • Proximity - pertains to context similarity and assesses the average distance between similar words in the two sentences. (sentence from document & sentence from matching source).

• AI Authorship In-Depth - The in-depth view of the AI Authorship analysis provides detailed information, including the AI Authorship index, the total number of sentences, the total number of AI-written sentences, and the total number of human-written sentences. Based on the estimated level of AI-generated content, the analysis classifies the likelihood of AI authorship into three categories: high probability, medium probability, and low probability.

• Manipulations In-Depth - The in-depth view of the manipulation analysis offers crucial details on manipulation findings, including the total number of manipulation flags and specific counts for each technique, namely Character Replacement, Hidden Text, and Images in Place of Text. Users can also perform actions to exclude or include each manipulation technique within the in-depth view of the analysis. 
• Cohort In-Depth - The Cohort Analysis displays average scores for each submission and compares them with the averages of other submissions in the same assignment. This helps students understand their performance relative to others and allows educators to identify patterns or issues.

New Feature: Submission Pre-check

Student users in Inspera Originality can now pre-check documents before making a final submission. This enables student users to assess their documents and revise them accordingly before making a final submission. Documents uploaded by students for pre-checking are not archived for future collusion-checking, but rather simply stored in a dedicated page only available to student users. 

New Feature: Contextual Similarity

Inspera Originality now includes contextual similarity analysis, which supplements similarity-checking to explore how the contexts of two sentences relate to each other. This feature takes the following components into account: 

• Sentence Similarity, which looks at how similar sentences are structured and worded. 
• Contextual Similarity, which analyzes similarities in the overall idea and message. 
• Proximity, which indicates the average distance of similar words between two similar sentences 

New Feature: Cohort Analysis

The Cohort Analysis evaluates every aspect of the originality-checking process, helping users compare a submission to others in the same assignment across five distinct categories: original language, translated language, AI authorship, manipulations, and word count. Designed for clarity, the analysis uses a spider chart to visually display the metrics of the submission in question alongside the average metrics of other submissions for that assignment.

New Administrator Institutional Settings

The administrator institutional settings allow institutions to tailor various features, enhancing the effectiveness of the analysis and maintaining high standards of academic integrity. The administrator institutional settings include: 

• Translation Similarity: Administrators can set up to 3 default languages for translation similarity analysis, though educators can modify these during assignment setup.
• AI Prediction: Enabling this option adds AI Authorship analysis to the Originality report, providing insights into the level of potentially AI-generated content.
• Archive Submissions: This setting allows educators to archive student submissions, creating a repository to help identify potential collusion.
• Submission Pre-Check: Activating this feature enables pre-submission reviews, encouraging users to check their work for issues before final submission.
• Contextual Similarity: Enabling this includes an analysis of how closely two sentences align in context and message, considering sentence similarity and word proximity.
• Thresholds: Administrators can set a percentage threshold for contextual similarity. A default percentage applies initially. 
• Access Content: Inspera Originality includes Access Content, enabling administrators to manage and configure the visibility of their submission archive.

New Assignment Configuration Options

Inspera Originality now includes additional assignment configuration settings for greater customization of assignments within the solution. The new assignment configuration settings include: 

• Contextual Similarity - Enables contextual similarity analysis for submissions within the assignment, providing additional information on how the context between two sentences relates. 
• Threshold - Educators can set a percentage threshold to determine what counts as contextual similarity
• Include URLs - Allows educators to specify additional sources to check student submissions against.
• Exclude URLs - Allows educators to specific sources to not check student submissions against

New Educator Upload Settings

Educators in Inspera Originality can upload documents on a dedicated page called "Your Submissions." In this update, we've added several new submission configuration options to give educators more flexibility when uploading their documents. The available educator upload settings are spread out over three sections:

• Submission Overview
  • Name & Surname: Enter the name and surname 
  • Date of Upload: Enter the current date of the submission upload

• Analysis Settings 
  • Translation Similarity:  Enable the Translation Similarity analysis and select a maximum of 3 languages
  • AI Authorship:  Enable the AI Authorship analysis
  • Contextual Similarity:  Enable the Contextual Similarity analysis and optionally define a percentage threshold to determine the level at which a sentence is considered contextually similar

• Detailed Analysis Settings 
  • Include URLs: Enter URLs to include in the originality-checking process
  • Exclude URLs: Enter URLs to exclude from the originality-checking process
  • Archive document: Store the document in the platform archive for future collusion-checking
  • Third-party libraries: Select third-party libraries to include in the originality-checking process
  • Citation style: Specify the citation style for the document

New UI Translations

In addition to English and Swedish, Inspera Originality now offers additional UI language options, including both Bokmål and Nynorsk for Norwegian. This enhancement increases flexibility for users and further improves platform localization. These new options will help better serve our diverse user base.

New Offline Report

The offline version of the Originality Report has been redesigned for better usability, with an updated layout and additional information. Users can still hover over highlighted sentences to view detailed findings for those sentences.

The newly designed offline report provides information on the following components of the Originality Reports:  

• Submission Details
• Analysis Settings 
• Similarity Analysis 
  • Original Language
  • Translation Similarity
• AI Authorship Analysis
• Manipulation Analysis
• Cohort Analysis 
• Document 

Access to content ability

Inspera Originality now offers administrators the ability to decide on the degree they want to share for their institution’s submissions with other Inspera Originality institutions. On the “Institution Settings” page the administrator has the Content Access option and the ability to choose between distinct three options, resulting in a flexible approach toward data privacy.

The available options for access to content range from:

• Closed - The content is closed for all other institutions using Inspera Originality. As a result, no documents from the institution will appear in the matching sources list of Originality Reports for other institutions as they cannot be used for collusion-checking.
• Open - The content is available to all other Inspera Originality institutions. If any matches are found, the document will appear in the matching sources list and be accessible to other institutions.
• Restricted - The content is accessible to all other Inspera Originality institutions. If any matches are found, the document will appear in the matching sources list, but access will require a request to the institution that owns the document. All access requests are logged, and the administrator can revoke access at any time.

Heads up 💡

New & Updated Originality Report 

In September, Inspera Originality will feature a new Originality Report, providing users with a granular approach to viewing analysis findings. The new Originality Report is available across all Inspera Originality integrations and streamlines access to essential information by providing a layered approach to accessing report insights.

New Candidate Dashboard & Login Page

Starting September 3, 2024, the new Candidate Dashboard and Login Page will be the default for all users. This update includes new features such as institutional branding options, improved AAA/AA accessibility, and extended language support. Transition before September 3 by submitting a support ticket, or the new interfaces will activate automatically on that date.

Numeric Entry & Numerical Simulation Decimal Separator Improvements

The optional decimal separator update from May will become standard in September. Currently, candidates can use commas or periods for Numeric Entry and Numerical Simulation question types. To simplify, Inspera will support only periods going forward. This update will be visible in prompts for both candidates and authors.

New in this release  🚀

Author ✏️

New Question Type - Symbolic Math

Symbolic Math is a new programmatic, automatically-marked question type where questions can be answered as numeric values or algebraic equations. Symbolic Math uses the same core concepts as Numerical Simulation where the variables and logic are set within the Program Model of the question. But unlike Numerical Simulation, the candidate response can be in the form of an algebraic equation that will be automatically validated and evaluated accordingly.

Inspera Integrity Browser 💻

Inspera Integrity Browser Version 1.16.3 (IIB 1.16.3) 

Inspera Integrity Browser (IIB) version 1.16.3 addresses several cosmetic issues related to our new IIB logo following the rebranding from IEP. Also, a few of the functional bugs within the player while using IIB have been addressed.  The fixes include:

• Desktop Launcher Icon: The pixelation issue with the IIB launcher icon on the desktop has been resolved.
• Icon In Taskbar: In previous versions, the Taskbar in Windows displayed the old IEP logo. With IIB 1.16.3, the Taskbar now shows the updated IIB logo.
• Icon Task Manager: In previous versions, the Task Manager displayed the old IEP logo. With IIB 1.16.3, the Task Manager now shows the updated IIB logo.
• Landing Page Logo: The old IEP logo on the landing page of IIB has been replaced with the new IIB logo.
• IIB Crash Issue: The IIB crash issue caused by the hyperactive use of Copy (Ctrl+C) in Moderate/Strict mode has been fixed for Windows devices.

Candidate experience 👩🏻‍🎓

Improved Formatting Options for Essay Questions

We have enhanced the text formatting capabilities for essay questions. Candidates can now use indentation and text alignment options directly from the text editor toolbar, providing greater flexibility in structuring and presenting their responses. 

Text to Speech support for Portuguese in SEB 

Last month we introduced Portuguese language support in Inspera Assessment. This release resolves previous Text-to-Speech issues when using Portuguese with SEB.

Inspera Originality 🕵️

Inspera Originality Canvas SpeedGrader Integration

Alongside the LTI 1.3 integration, Inspera Originality can now directly integrate into Canvas. This enhancement allows users to upload documents, configure assignments, and view Originality Reports directly within Canvas without needing to access Inspera Originality separately. Additionally, Canvas can now synchronize with the standalone version of Inspera Originality, providing users convenient access to Originality Reports for Canvas assignments directly from the standalone platform.

Heads up 💡

Roll Out of New Candidate Dashboard and Login Page

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible user experience, we are excited to announce our plan for transitioning to our new Candidate Dashboard and Login Page.

Key Highlights:

• New Candidate Dashboard:
  • Unified interface: One dashboard for all assessment types including single sit, assessment path, and multiple attempt assessments. 
  • Inclusivity: AAA/AA compliant, supporting future languages.
  • Customization: Easily brand with logo and banner color changes.
  • Languages: All existing and future additions will be supported. 
  • Agile development: Faster updates with new technical architecture.

• New Login Page:
  • Inclusive design: AAA/AA compliant, prioritizing community feedback.
  • Customizable: Personalize with branding and privacy options.

Transition Timeline:

• You have the flexibility to transition at your convenience before the 3rd of September 2024 by making a support ticket to specify your activation date here. If you require any branding customizations, please additionally provide requirements following the guidelines outlined in Customizations Within Inspera – Inspera Help Center.
• In the absence of a specified activation date, we'll activate both the new interfaces for you on the 3rd of September 2024 to ensure a seamless transition.
• If there is a critical reason you wouldn’t be able to transition on the 3rd of September 2024 or before, please submit a support ticket with clarification.

New Minimum Operating System Requirements for Safe Exam Browser (SEB)
Inspera has upgraded the minimum operating system requirements for Safe Exam Browser to be the following: MacOS 12.1 and iOS/Safari 14.1. Older versions will no longer be supported or included in testing. 

New in this release  🚀

Updated Dashboard Header

Inspera has introduced new branding colors to the Dashboard Header.

The updates include:

• Darker Blue Background: Darker blue background to match Inspera's new branding
• Updated Home Icon: A refreshed home icon for improved navigation
• Improved Color Contrast/Accessibility: Enhanced color contrast to improve accessibility 

Portuguese Language Support 

We are now supporting Portuguese as a language option in the Inspera interface. This applies to Inspera Assessment for both administrators and candidates but does not include Originality, Proctoring, and Integrity Browser. Contact our Service Desk to make the language available to your tenant. 

Note some temporary limitations that will be fixed with the August release: 

• Text To Speech not yet supported in Portuguese if using Safe Exam Browser
• The text editor is currently using some English words even if the candidate has selected Portuguese
• Portuguese-authored questions are not supported, but the temporary workaround is to create the questions in the English version in Author (you can still enter your content in the Portuguese language).

Author ✏️

Label Filtering Improvement

We are extending the possibility to filter on labels that have been added to questions. Until now, if filtering on more than one label, the result has been to show all content with any of these labels. However, there is a need to be able to search for all content that has all of the selected labels. 

Other Authoring improvements

• Fixed issue where Welsh authored questions were not available to candidates. 

Deliver 🤖

Allowing Multiple Third-Party Applications in SEB Options For Computer Labs

We have allowed the use of up to five third-party applications in SEB options for Computer labs (Windows only). Earlier, we supported only one custom application. 

More Flexibility for Group Submissions After the Test is Activated

Group submissions typically run for prolonged periods, which can lead to changes in group structure. In this release, we're clarifying what happens to existing drafts when a candidate is moved to a different group. We're also enabling group creation after a test is activated to streamline group management and splitting group scenarios. 

Monitor 📊

Open Resubmission for Multiple Candidates Simultaneously

Some users of Inspera Assessment allow candidates to work on their essays across multiple lessons by opening for resubmission using Monitor. You can now open for resubmission for multiple candidates simultaneously. Previously, you could only open resubmissions for one candidate at a time. 

Learn more about Opening for Resubmission

Alert in Monitor for Candidate Essay-Saving Issues

In some cases, auto-saving a candidate’s essay answer may run into some issues for example, they’ve added too many drawings. The candidate is informed with an error message. In this release, we've added an error message for Invigilators, notifying them of candidate essay-saving issues so they can offer assistance.  When the issue is resolved, the Invigilator will also be notified. 

Grade 💯

Improved Formatting for General Assessment Feedback 

In Deliver, Planners can add general assessment feedback for all candidates and provide them with additional insight. We’re extending our formatting capabilities to enrich assessment feedback by adding more options such as text alignment, font colors, and many more.  

Improved Header and Committee Navigation 

Based on user feedback, we’re making improvements to the header in the marking interface so the information there is clearer, there is less repetition and it is more obvious how one can navigate to the committee selection page. 

On the committee selection page, we provide more guidance for the user to understand where they are, and what they can do from there, as well as clarify some of the information in the table, and make it quicker and easier for them to see members of the committees so they can orientate. 

Inspera Originality 🕵️

New Features in the LTI 1.3 Integration & Standalone Applications

Administrator Account

• Administrators can now add subjects on demand using the “Add Units” button located on the left side menu/panel. Created subjects are available for educators and students to join.
• Administrators can now add additional educator and student accounts to the platform as well as edit or delete them. 

Educator Account

• Educators can now add subjects, a feature previously restricted to Administrators. Additionally, educators can duplicate subjects, simplifying the task of recreating them for the next academic year. They can also invite students to subjects independently, removing the need for administrator assistance/intervention. 
• Educators can create student accounts and invite students to the platform via email. 
• Educators can now upload documents and assess their originality. Educators are equipped with a dedicated page for their submissions titled “Your Submissions,” located on the left side menu/panel.  This addition provides ease of use and flexibility.  
• Educators can now accept or reject late submissions and resubmission requests from students, a new feature enabling students to submit assignments at a later time, conditional on the approval of their educator.
• Educators can now perform both single and bulk uploads. This enables greater flexibility, allowing them to upload multiple documents simultaneously and removing the need to wait for student uploads. 

Student Account

• Students can now enroll in subjects using enrollment keys, removing the need to wait for enrollment invitations and allowing for faster registration processes. Students can still receive enrollment invitations from administrators and educators. 
• Students can now request late submissions or resubmissions to their educator, enabling them to submit or resubmit assignments at a later date, conditional on the approval of their subject educator. 
• Students can now find their assignments quickly using a dedicated calendar. The calendar displays past and upcoming assignments. 

Generic Features that Apply to All Three User Types

Analytics Export 

All three user types can now export data in file format. This capability enables users to download point-in-time information for offline use. The currently supported export file formats include .xlxs, .pdf, and .cvs. The data that can be exported mainly comprises statistics, allowing users to access this information without needing to log into Inspera Originality. 

Assignment and Submissions Bulk Download 

Users can now bulk download Originality Reports, streamlining this process and establishing efficiency. 

This capability supports four bulk download formats: 

• Original Language Report 
  • Download an offline version of Originality Reports only containing similarities found in the original language. 
• Translated Language Support
  • Download an offline version of Originality Reports only containing similarities found in the translated language. 
• AI Authorship Report
  • Download an offline version of Originality Reports only containing AI prediction findings.  
• Document File
  • Download the uploaded submission files. 

New Assignment Configuration Features

• Anonymous Submissions 
  • Educators can now enable anonymous submission, enhancing privacy and keeping uploading student information undisclosed. The feature is available on the assignment level and conceals student names entirely from the user interface. Educators can reverse this action at any time. 
• Word Limit Settings
  • Educators can now set a word limit for student assignment submissions. Documents containing a higher word count than the specified limit cannot be uploaded. Educators can reverse this action at any time. 
• Citation Settings 
  • Educators can now exclude citations from the Originality Report, allowing them to focus only on discovered integrity issues and similarity findings such as exact matches and possible altered text. Educators can reverse this action at any time.
• Source Exclusion 
  • Educators can now choose to exclude sources below a specific threshold, enabling them to focus only on sources with a high percentage of similarity. For example, setting the excluded source criteria to 5% will exclude any source with a similarity percentage below 5% from the Originality report. Educators can make adjustments to this setting at any time.

File Type Support 

Inspera Originality now supports 18 more file types in addition to the currently supported formats, totaling 23 file formats. 

1. .pdf
2. .txt
3. .JSON
4. .docx
5. .CSV
6. .key
7. .html
8. .hwp
9. .md
10. .numbers
11. .odp
12. .pages
13. .ods
14. .odt
15. .ppt
16. .ppsx 
17. .pptx 
18. .ps
19. .rtf
20. .xls
21. .wpd
22. .xml
23. .xlsx

Originality Report Upgrade

Text Manipulation

The text manipulation detection feature provides coverage against possible text manipulations such as character replacement, hidden text, or images in place of text. In this update, the text manipulation feature will be made available for the LMS integration and Standalone Applications.

• Character Replacement 
  • Character replacement refers to the action of replacing certain characters in a document with characters from another alphabet in an attempt to evade originality-checking. Inspera Originality can detect these changes comprehensively and with high accuracy. All character substitutes are highlighted in the Originality Report and an exact number of replaced characters is provided.

Exhibit A: Characters that are from other languages will be highlighted

• Hidden Text 
  • Hidden text refers to the action of concealing additional text or symbols within a document. This is achieved by adding text or symbols in document whitespaces and making adjustments to sizing and coloring. Inspera Originality can detect these alterations with high accuracy and pinpoint the exact whitespaces where text or symbols were inserted. 

Exhibit B: Text that is hidden or colored in white will be picked up

• Images in Text 
  • This is where a snapshot of a text is included in a document and camouflaged as regular text in between paragraphs. Images of this sort are pinpointed and highlighted in red, allowing evaluators to understand that images highlighted in this color require attention as being possibly used to avoid originality checking. Regular images included in the document for illustration purposes are highlighted in green for clarity. 

Exhibit C: Images that contain text will be highlighted in red

Heads up 💡

New Minimum Operating System Requirements for Safe Exam Browser 

From the July release, the minimum requirements for MacOS will be 12.1 and iOS/Safari: 14.1. Older versions than these are not supported by Apple, and Inspera will no longer include older versions in testing or for bug fixing.   

Default Activation of New Candidate Dashboard and Login Page in September

The newest Candidate Dashboard and Login Page will be activated by default for all institutions in September Release. You can provide customizations and/or request earlier activation at a time convenient for your institution by making a support ticket. More details below.

Allowing Multiple Third-Party Applications in SEB Options For Computer Labs

We are working on allowing multiple third-party applications in SEB options for Computer labs (Windows only).

New in this release  🚀

Monitor 📊

The Test Names in Monitor Are Now Clickable Links

In the Monitor module, it is now possible to click on a test name to open a new tab displaying the test information as presented in Deliver module.

Previously, if an Invigilator in Monitor wanted to view the test information for a candidate's test, or change the test settings, they had navigate to the Deliver module, search for the correct test, and click on it. 

Author ✏️

Batch trash for Questions and Question Sets

Authors can select multiple questions or question sets in the Author module list to trash them at the same time. Previously, it was only possible to move one item (question or question set) to the trash at a time.

Grade 💯

Improved ‘Next/Previous Candidate’ Navigation

There are situations in which not all candidates answer all questions, for example, when candidates get to pick among a set of questions, or when random questions are pulled for each candidate.

For example, let's say you are grading Candidate A on Question 6. Normally, clicking the "next candidate" button would take you to Candidate B. However, if Candidate B did not answer Question 6, you would be taken to Candidate B on Question 1 instead. 

With the new improvement, clicking "next candidate" will now take you directly to the next candidate who answered Question 6, such as Candidate C on Question 6. This ensures that graders can continue evaluating the same question across multiple candidates without interruption.

New Grading Scale Available for Activation

We’ve introduced a new grading scale with the following options:

• Fail
• Pass
• Pass with Honors

This can be activated for your tenant by reaching out to our Service Desk. 

Candidate experience 👩🏻‍🎓

Roll Out of New Candidate Dashboard and Login Page

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible user experience, we are excited to announce our plan for transitioning to our new Candidate Dashboard and Login Page. 

Key Highlights:

• New Candidate Dashboard:
  • Unified interface: One dashboard for all assessment types including single sit, assessment path and multiple attempt assessments. 
  • Inclusivity: AAA/AA compliant, supporting future languages.
  • Customization: Easily brand with logo and banner color changes.
  • Languages: All existing and future additions will be supported. 
  • Agile development: Faster updates with new technical architecture.

• New Login Page:
  • Inclusive design: AAA/AA compliant, prioritizing community feedback.
  • Customizable: Personalize with branding and privacy options.

Transition Timeline:

• You have the flexibility to transition at your convenience before the 3rd of September 2024 by making a support ticket to specify your activation date here. If you require any branding customizations, please additionally provide requirements following the guidelines outlined in Customizations Within Inspera – Inspera Help Center.
• In the absence of a specified activation date, we'll activate both the new interfaces for you on the 3rd of September 2024 to ensure a seamless transition.
• If there is a critical reason you wouldn’t be able to transition on the 3rd of September 2024 or before, please submit a support ticket with clarification.

Inspera Originality 🕵️

Swedish UI Support Added for Inspera Originality in Inspera Assessment

Inspera Originality now supports the Swedish user interface within the Inspera Assessment integration. This is an extension of the Swedish UI support for standalone applications and LMSs. To change the UI language, users must request with their Account Manager. Once the request is processed, all future Originality Reports will be in the desired language. 

Other Originality Improvements

• Submissions are now processed faster, improving candidate collusion detection further. The implemented improvements enable assessing simultaneous submissions faster, which allows Inspera Originality to provide quicker and more accurate originality check estimates. 
• Fixed an issue where certain special characters (tabs, vertical tabs, null characters) could cause submissions to be stored incorrectly. These characters are now removed to ensure proper submission storage while keeping the rest of the response intact.

Heads up 💡

Roll Out of New Candidate Dashboard and Login Page

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible user experience, we are excited to announce our plan for transitioning to our new Candidate Dashboard and Login Page. Since their introduction as Generally Available on Jan’ 24 Release, many of our customers have already begun utilizing these enhancements, with all new clients onboarded in 2024 automatically benefiting from these improvements.

Key Highlights:

• New Candidate Dashboard:
  • Unified interface: One dashboard for all assessment types including single sit, assessment path and multiple attempt assessments. 
  • Inclusivity: AAA/AA compliant, supporting future languages.
  • Customization: Easily brand with logo and banner color changes.
  • Languages: All existing and future additions will be supported. 
  • Agile development: Faster updates with new technical architecture.

• New Login Page:
  • Inclusive design: AAA/AA compliant, prioritizing community feedback.
  • Customizable: Personalize with branding and privacy options.

Transition Timeline:

Now, it's your turn to benefit from these enhancements. You have the flexibility to transition at your convenience before the September’ 24 Release. Our dedicated support team is available to assist you throughout the transition process. 

To ensure a smooth transition for all customers, the new Candidate Dashboard and Login Page will be enabled as default for all customers on September 3rd, 2024. We’ll make sure to keep you informed with email reminders every month.

Transition Support:

To activate these enhancements for your institution, simply contact our Support Desk. Additionally, for any branding customizations, please provide details following the guidelines outlined in Customizations Within Inspera – Inspera Help Center. 

Contact Us:

Should you have any questions or require further assistance, do not hesitate to reach out to your dedicated Account Manager. 

New in this release  🚀

Candidate experience 👩🏻‍🎓

Improvements to Decimal Separators in Numeric Entry and Numerical Simulation

We've received feedback regarding the clarity of entering decimal separators in numeric input fields. Currently, candidates can input either commas (',') or points ('.') as decimal separators in Numeric Entry and Numerical Simulation question types. However, Inspera converts commas to points, which may cause confusion for candidates. To address this, we're introducing two clarifications:

1. In the “Author” interface, authors are informed of the conversion of commas into points.
2. From the September release onwards, we will allow only points as decimal separators, and make it clear in both the candidate interface and the author interface. 

Candidates trying to enter a comma will see this information box

You can benefit from this improvement before September by requesting the configuration that enforces points as the only decimal separator through our Service Desk.

Improved Communication on Submission Retention Policies

Up until now, when candidates submitted an assessment a default message was shown informing them it will be kept for 2 years. 

However, a number of institutions are now leveraging Inspera settings that allow them to set a different retention period, or to let candidates delete their submissions. In order to reflect that, we’re updating the default message shown to candidates:

• When no particular retention period settings are used, or when candidates can delete their submissions, no message is shown. 
• When the institution has some retention policy enforced in Inspera, then a general message is shown: "The period of time for which your submission is kept is determined by your institution". This allows institutions to handle candidates’ questions regarding the retention policy directly.  

Note: Visibility settings are independent from retention of submissions, and are still shown if set. 

Note: This usability improvement will be released slightly later than the May release, during the month of May.

Clearer search fields

In some areas of the platform, for example, while marking, the search fields are not obvious enough and users end up scrolling through a list. We’re updating the interface and adding a search icon to make it easier to understand that the list can be searched.

Note: This usability improvement will be released slightly later than the May release, during the month of May.

Inspera Originality 🕵️

Swedish language support in Inspera Originality

As of the May release, Inspera Originality now supports the Swedish language in addition to English. We are continuing to expand language options to include all languages supported by Inspera Assessment and will provide updates as they become available.

For our Swedish users, we have updated the terminology on the new Login Page to better align with the English language version. Please note that these changes are purely linguistic and do not alter any functionality. This update ensures consistency between the Swedish and English interfaces:

• "Inloggning för studenter" → "Välkommen till student-inloggningen!"
• "Logga in med användarnamn och lösenord" → "Eller logga in med registrerad Inspera-användare"

Heads up 💡

We're improving how we inform you of what we’re working on: on roadmap.inspera.com, you can see what we’re working on, whether it’s already in development, planned next, or currently being defined with our users. Give your insights, tell us the impact, and be informed of updates.

For more details on how we use roadmap.inspera.com and how you can get involved, watch the April release webinar: April 2024 Webinar

New in this release  🚀

Author ✏️

Feedback Integration in Numerical Simulation Question Type

In the Numerical Simulation question type, Authors can predefine feedback for each response outcome. This release enables candidates to view this feedback alongside other feedback in their post-submission review and Candidate report.

Other Authoring improvements

• Numerical Simulation: enabling Error Carry Forward previously reset the Program model to default. This is improved so the Program model is maintained when selecting to enable error carry forward

Grade 💯

Assessment Feedback Improvements

• When the feedback is not shared with the candidate, the Grader’s view of the Candidate Report will correctly state that section isn’t visible to the candidate.

Explanations Improvements

• Resolved a bug causing the Grader to occasionally display incorrect Explanations when navigating between candidates during grading.
• When all explanations are sent, the "Send all Explanations" button becomes inactive.

Other Grading improvements

• Resolved an issue that led to some incorrect marks after an Answer Key Update process
• Resolved an issue where Grader/Planner needed to refresh the page after reopening marking
• Resolved an issue where graders who were part of multiple committees received a warning message incorrectly stating that not all candidates had been graded, even when the committee they were confirming marking for was fully completed.
• Rubrics that use percentages can now be correctly created and saved.
• Added missing caption for the Status column in the Grade -> Overview section.

Accessibility enhancements 🌐🔍🖱️

• Candidates can now expand and collapse sections in the Candidate Report using keyboard navigation.

Heads up 💡

• A reminder that our new One-Way Navigation feature, released in December, is now available for everyone. If you are using, or considering using the feature, we’d really appreciate it if you could spare two minutes of your time to complete this short survey.

New in this release  🚀

Author ✏️

Authoring improvements

• Numerical Simulation question type: Correct answers are now included in the downloaded question set PDF.
• Links added to questions now open in new tabs as opposed to the same tab.

Deliver 🤖

Assessment Path is Generally Available

Assessment path (AP) supports continuous assessment and allows you to group individual tests to be marked individually and graded as a whole. This can be activated for your tenant by reaching out to our Service Desk. 

Assessment path serves various purposes, with the most common ones including:

• Planners can create a series of individual tests to have their candidates evaluated based on their performance over a period of time. For instance, all individual tests planned for a course in a term or semester can be grouped, each with its unique weight to provide an overall grade to the candidate in the course.
• Alternatively, it can be used for summative tests consisting of several components, each with its own time window, duration, graders, and feedback. A good example here is a language proficiency assessment that consists of 4 parts for assessing reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. In this case reading, writing and listening can be conducted as one continuous multi-part assessment (same time window), while the speaking test is scheduled at a different time.

AP includes the following capabilities:

• Adding candidates to the whole assessment and its individual tests.
• Including contributors and grading committees in the whole assessment.
• Grading the assessment as a whole, manually or automatically (using thresholds).
• Providing overall feedback explanations to candidates. 
• Supporting sum or weight of points for calculation of points. 
• Implementing marking workflows that allow confirmation of candidates collectively or individually and customization of collaboration settings for private/shared marking and grader confirmation. 
• Utilizing open APIs for assessment creation linked to individual parts.
• Displaying a grouped view of the whole assessment with its individual tests along with a unified view of the results and feedback. 
• Tailoring the display of assessment results for candidates.

Note: Assessment path requires the New Candidate Dashboard that provides a better overview of all assessment activities. The New Candidate dashboard has been Generally Available since January 2024. 

Manual Marking on Assessment Path

The Manual Marking on Assessment Path is designed to address use cases where manual calculation of grades at the parent level is required, especially in scenarios where grading on the Assessment path enabled, and individual tests are manually graded without assigned points. 

The "Manual Grading" option, available under the "Select grading scale for parent" setting when the main evaluation type is Grade (not Points), facilitates manual grading by toggling off the display of "Calculation of Points" and "Threshold Values" sections.

Visibility of marks and grades on individual tests while grading Assessment Path

To streamline Grader access and improve efficiency, the following updates have been implemented:

• Graders assigned to an Assessment path now have a broader view and can see the results of all tests within the Assessment path, not just the ones they were initially assigned to grade.
• Graders now have complete read access to all details of individual tests, which includes the ability to view questions, responses, and marks for each.

These enhancements ensure that Graders overseeing the Assessment path can make informed decisions, especially when the overall grades are manually defined. 

Multiple Attempts Improvements

• Candidates can now initiate a Multiple Attempts test created through LTI integrations.
• We've updated settings that are compatible/incompatible with Multiple Attempts to streamline test setup. For support with incompatible settings, reach out with your use case for consideration.

Assessment Path Improvements

• Administrators can request explanations from graders with or without due dates. The feature has been relocated from candidate experience settings to grading settings, making it easier to manage.
• The setup now defaults to the "Total Points" method for the calculation of points for the overall Assessment Path. When opting for manual grading, calculation options are hidden. If not choosing manual grading, the default is "Total Points," and users can switch to "Total Weights" if necessary. 
• The “Grouped” candidate view has been made the default view for Assessment Path.
• The "Grouped" candidate view displays individual tests nested under the Assessment Path on the New Candidate dashboard. It provides candidates with a structured overview of all tests within the Assessment Path, enhancing navigation.
• It is now possible to add SSO users to an activated Assessment Path. 
• When grading on the Assessment path is disabled, the entire "grading workflow" tab is now grayed out, ensuring consistency and clarity in settings configuration for admin users.

Grade 💯

Grading improvements

• New grading scale available: 0-20

Accessibility enhancements 🌐🔍🖱️

Aria Landmarks Added

Added ARIA Landmarks to improve accessibility, enabling users with assistive technologies to more effectively navigate and understand the application’s layout.

• Added ARIA Landmarks on the Candidate report page 
• Added ARIA Landmarks to the Planner’s Dashboard
• Added ARIA Landmarks when editing Questions and Question Sets

Inspera Originality 🕵️

Inspera Originality is now LTI 1.3 Compliant with 5 Major LMSs! 

We’re excited to announce a significant update to Inspera Originality. With this release, Inspera Originality is now fully compliant with LTI 1.3 standards and offers integration with the five major LMSs with the possibility to expand with other LMSs supporting LTI1.3 standards. Currently, we support through LTI1.3 the following LMSs:

• Canvas
• Moodle
• D2L Brightspace
• Blackboard
• Sakai

Following this significant update, you can now use Inspera Originality's advanced originality-checking capabilities directly within the above-mentioned LMSs. 

Capabilities for each user type

Administrators can do the following:

• Create courses: Administrators can now easily set up and manage courses within Inspera Originality directly from the aforementioned LMSs. This allows for a structured and organized way to categorize and oversee courses and their respective originality-checking requirements.
• Access the dashboard: The administrator has access to the dashboard, which is tailored to keep them updated with information such as the number of courses, assignments, professors, and students there are.

Professors can do the following:

• Create Assignments: Professors can create assignments directly within the LMS, which are automatically integrated with Inspera Originality. This integration ensures a straightforward workflow for assigning work and monitoring submissions.
• Access Originality Reports for Each Submission: After students submit their documents, professors can access detailed Originality reports. These reports provide comprehensive insights into the originality of each submission, highlighting potential plagiarism and enabling a deeper understanding of students' work.
• Access to the dashboard: The professor’s dashboard contains information on a level that informs the professor of their courses, such as the number of students that have enrolled, assignments, and other related information.

Students can do the following:

• Submit Documents: Students can submit their documents directly through their LMS interface into Inspera Originality. The integration with Inspera Originality ensures that submissions are automatically checked for originality, producing an originality report for the professor which can later be shared. 
• Access to the dashboard: The student’s dashboard contains information on a personal level, such as the number of enrolled courses, assignments, submissions, and other related information. 

Heads Up💡

Inspera API Policy Update

This month we have published a new API policy. This policy sets out the terms that apply when a customer uses, makes contact with, or interacts with the external facing Inspera APIs. The policy can be found under the API section in the Inspera Help Center.

A heads up:  As mentioned in the API documentation, if an API is being called with a request rate that exceeds the maximum allowed rate (as defined in the API policy), an error message will be returned indicating that the request rate has been exceeded. Based on monitoring we see that most usage is already within these limits. We are in direct dialogue with customers where this is not the case. Starting in Q2 this year we will gradually roll out active enforcement of these limits across all API users

New in this release 🚀

Welsh Language Support for Candidate Interface

We now support the Welsh language for the candidate interface. This can be activated for your tenant by reaching out to our service desk. 

Welsh for the Admin interface is also on its way but will be ready later this spring. Stay tuned for updates!

Author ✏️

Numerical Simulation: Now in General Availability!

Numerical Simulation has moved from Open Beta to General Availability. This question type still requires activation via the Service Desk. 

Improvements and fixes made to Numerical simulation with this release:

• When enabling the question type, the functionality for adding rich feedback to candidates is enabled automatically. No need for separate activation
• Numerical simulation is now working in combination with ‘Section pulling / selection’
• Fixed issue with incorrect percentage values displayed in the correct answer when Relative tolerance was used, and improved the readability of the correct answer 
• Fixed issue where settings set under Options did not save when saving the question

Deliver 🤖

Open API for Test Activation

Customers can now enable immediate visibility of on-demand assessments for candidates without manual intervention. 

Our new API (ref Open API for details) can be accessed through a simple POST request - POST /v1/test/{testid}/activate. In case of configuration errors, the API responds with a clear message and error code 400. In successful scenarios, expect a 200 response, confirming the operation's success. 

Unlimited Attempts on Multiple Attempts

Planners can now enable unlimited attempts on a test utilizing Multiple Attempts. Candidates can take the test as often as needed - providing a more flexible and personalized learning experience.

Improvements and fixes made to Assessment Path with this release:

• Previously, the steps between the Assessment Path and the individual tests were unclear. Now, clicking on a Parent ID directs users to the "Setup" tab in the Assessment Path UI, where they have visibility of individual tests under the Assessment Path. 
• Previously, disabling grading on the Assessment Path could be confusing due to the presence of test weights. Now, when grading is disabled, test weights are no longer shown. Users will only see the option to set test weights when "Calculation of points" is set as "Test Weights" in the Assessment Path's UI.

Grade 💯

• Improved user experience in Multiple Attempts and Assessment Paths. We have removed the "Download marks as CSV" option on the top level test in the Marking tool. As there are no marks associated with the top level test, this option is not required.
• The default grading option can now be configured per tenant, so if you prefer “Do not use grade scale” as the default option when creating an test, please reach out to our Service Desk. More information on grading scales can be found in the Help Center article, Grading scales.
• Removed the “Grade” section in the Grader’s view of the Candidate Report when the feature to “Publish the final grade” is not available is not enabled on the tenancy.

Accessibility enhancements🔍🖱️🔊

• It is now possible to select “View in Submission” in the Candidate Report preview by clicking the “Tab” key
• The “Print” option in the Candidate Report is now clickable without needing to hover it with the mouse.
• Screen readers can now read the “View with Rubric” option in the Candidate Report.
• The three links in the upper right of the Planner Dashboard header menu (Notifications, Settings, and Help), now have an accessible name for screenreader users.

What’s coming up in January 

New in this release  🚀

Author ✏️

Authoring improvements

• Numerical Simulations question type (Beta): 
  • We have enhanced the user experience by ensuring that authors are now informed of issues, such as program model complexity exceeding the capabilities of the candidate test player, at the time of compiling the program model.
  • As the candidates can only input their answers using numbers, all authored correct answers must be in number format (as opposed to eg. fraction format). To facilitate authoring, correct answers are now automatically converted to numbers where possible. For instance, if a variable yields the value ⅛, it is converted to 0.125.

Note: if the correct answer variable can take a different number of decimals each time a number is generated, we recommend allowing for Absolute or Relative Tolerance to ensure the candidates are not penalized for rounding.

Deliver 🤖

Multiple Attempts is now Generally Available!

We have worked closely with our customers and early adopters to make several improvements over time, and are launching Multiple Attempts as generally available! We will continue making improvements based on market feedback. 

By enabling Multiple Attempts on assessments, formative testing becomes a valuable tool for enhancing test-driven learning and empowering candidates to improve their understanding of key topics.  Learn more in the Help Center article, Multiple attempts.

Multiple Attempts drives test-driven learning with automatically-marked questions:

• The planner can schedule assessments allowing for formative testing with multiple attempts so candidates can see how their score improves over time. 
• The planner can set the maximum number of attempts and candidates can retake the assessment up to the set limit. 
• The grading logic for final results can be configured to highest, average or last score. 
• Instant feedback and an updated final score are available to candidates on each submission, with an opportunity to retry/reattempt up to the set limit. 
• The automated marks show in the Marking 2.0 tool as for other automatically-marked questions with the ability to also grade the overall test.
• The planner can download all attempts per candidate from the Marking 2.0 tool. 
• It supports Numerical simulations which allow unique randomized Numerical Questions on every attempt.
• It supports the randomized question order, preventing reliance on memorization and promoting independent engagement with the content.
• It supports timed attempts, which enforces a duration limit on every attempt. 

The New Candidate Dashboard is now Generally Available! 

The new dashboard is a unified house for not only summative exams but also formative assessments. It has been designed with the following aspirations:

• Accelerated Learning: It drives the focus back to learning with bespoke user experience for our formative capabilities Multiple Attempts and Assessment Path. 
• Inclusivity: It is being designed with accessibility in mind to allow inclusive adoption in compliance with AAA/AA industry standards. 
• Usability: The redesign prioritizes an intuitive candidate experience, informed by customer feedback and usability studies. It introduces a refreshed global menu, an onboarding tour, and a default test ordering system emphasizing tests needing immediate attention at the top.

• Dashboard	Regular Assessment	Assessment Path, Multiple Attempts	Usability Improvements
  Existing
  New

Learn more in the Help Center article, Candidate dashboard.

Other Deliver improvements

• Setting up of Multiple Attempts: We've enhanced the usability of Multiple Attempts by streamlining the user interface. Now, when Multiple Attempts are enabled, any incompatible settings are automatically made unavailable, reducing the risk of human error. This improvement ensures that your focus remains on configuring the essential settings needed for Multiple Attempts to function seamlessly. The list of settings that are available with Multiple Attempts have been specified here. 
• The maximum attempts can now be directly modified using keyboard input, enhancing user convenience beyond the previous limitation of utilizing arrow keys. 
• Any changes in test order (“reorder test”) in an Assessment Path were not promptly reflected on the setup page. Users now enjoy a seamless and accurate display without manual refreshes.

Grade 💯

• Originality Report is now available. More information can be found can be found under the new Originality category.

Other Grading improvements

• The implies math symbol (⟹) is now correctly visualized in Marking.

Inspera Integrity Browser (previously Inspera Exam Portal) 💻

Version 1.16.0 released and renamed Inspera Integrity Browser

As mentioned in the last two release notes, Inspera has made two product name changes:

1. Inspera Exam Portal (IEP) is now named Inspera Integrity Browser (IIB)
2. Inspera Smarter Proctoring (ISP) is now named Inspera Proctoring (IP)

We are delighted to announce that, as of the January 2024 release, the products mentioned above have now been rebranded. You may notice these updates are reflected in both our product and support information going forward.

Version 1.16.0 (to be released during w/c 15th January) is the first IIB version to include the new name. There will be no name changes for the versions of IEP that we also currently support (1.14 and 1.15 series). 

There are some instances where the Inspera Integrity Browser (IIB) name is referred to in Inspera Assessment, and therefore is visible to all users from January 2024, irrespective of whether IIB version 1.16.0 is used. In these cases we ensure that the new name is followed by a caption reading ‘(previously Inspera Exam Browser)’, to provide further clarification to our users. For example, Planners will see the following caption when setting up a Test in the ‘Deliver’ section.

Version 1.16.0 also includes a new Inspera app logo:

Note: For the moment we have not made any changes to the ‘/get-IEP’ URL used to download the application. This means that ‘/get-IEP’ will still be used to download IIB version 1.16.0. We expect to provide an equivalent  ‘/get-IIB’ URL in the February or March release.

For further information see our explainer guide on the Help Centre. To try out IIB 1.16.0 when it is released, contact the Service Desk.

Inspera Originality 🕵️

We are excited to announce that Inspera Originality can now be part of the assessment process! Institutions can integrate originality checking into their existing workflow and maximize educational outcomes. Please be aware that Inspera Originality is an additional feature and is subject to its own licensing fees. For more information please contact your account manager. 

Originality Report is now available! 

Institutions that opt-in for originality checking on their assessments can access the Originality Report. The Originality Report contains information related to the originality detected within the submitted document. 

The Originality Report includes an Originality Index which is derived from the originality checking process that categorizes the document's originality level. The Originality Index is made of the following:

• Similarity analyses: Explore traditional similarity checking, which assesses submitted documents against sources in both original and translated languages. Utilizing a percentage system, this method quantifies flagged similarity issues, providing a comprehensive evaluation of the document's alignment with existing sources.
• AI Authorship: AI authorship is implemented within the originality checking process to determine whether there are possible instances of AI-written text within the document. It contains insights on a sentence level such as how many sentences are possibly AI-written.

Originality index

As a part of the Originality Report, users will be able to access the following features: 

• See submission details: View details on all submissions as part of the Originality Report. 
• Download: Download the entirety of the Originality Report for offline access in one of the following options: Original language report, Translated language report, and as a document file. 
• Originality Levels: The originality index contains three originality levels: High risk, Medium risk, and Low risk. These levels provide information on the levels of detected originality within the text. 
• Report Navigator: To ensure that users can easily navigate through multi-paged documents they can use the report navigator. 
• Sentence information: Users can access detailed sentence information when clicking on them. Moreover, they can: change sources, remove and re-include sources, and exclude sentences entirely. 
• Sentence highlights: After the originality checking is finished, users can access the highlighted sentences and gain more information about the found similarities. Sentences are highlighted in blue, green, red, and gray, and accompanied by names: exact match, possibly altered text, marked as quotation, and removed highlights. This classification is used to communicate the types of similarities that have been identified.  

Note: Additionally, we are actively exploring the option of utilizing the institution's default language in cases where it is not specified in the test settings. The establishment of this default language will take part in the onboarding process.

Accessibility enhancements 🔍🖱️🔊

Navigation Menu updates: 

We've made a few upgrades to the current navigation menu to enhance accessibility for users who rely on keyboards and screen readers, aiming to improve their overall experience.

Navigation menu correctly renders for 200% Zoom

Main navigation does not follow the Disclosure Navigation pattern. Expandable/collapsible elements are not indicated as such and cannot be collapsed. When tabbing, elements expand automatically and keyboard users must traverse all options rather than top level ones.

Enhanced Page Title for Increased Precision 

The refined page title offers heightened accuracy and clarity, ensuring a more precise representation of the content and purpose of the page for users and search engines alike.

Pagination menu 

• Pagination controls marked as interactive.
• Clear labels added to First/Last Page controls.
• Improved indication for the selected item.
  

Contributors menu 

In this update, the contributors' menu within the expandable/collapsible element has been appropriately marked up.