Introduction: Limits in Inspera Assessment are defined thresholds that help keep the service reliable, secure, and performant as usage scales. Some limits are enforced (the system blocks you from exceeding them), while others are indicative guardrails (recommended best-practice thresholds) that help you plan, design, and manage your setup before you run into performance or usability issues.
In this article you can learn about the default limits for some of the functionality in Inspera Assessment. Note that your institution might have a specific agreement to have increased some of the limits.
General
The below data types and limits apply per tenant.
| Data Type | Limit | Enforcement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access Groups | 1000 | Enforced | Please contact Service Desk if you see a need to exceed this limit |
| Item Banks | 500 | Recommended | This is currently a soft limit only, and we are planning to make this Enforced. Any affected customers will be contacted prior to this. Please contact Service Desk if you see a need to exceed this limit |
| Custom Metadata fields | 200 | Enforced | Please contact Service Desk if you see a need to exceed this limit |
Users
The below data types relates to the Users, their memberships and roles in Inspera Assessment. Unless otherwise specified, the limit applies per User.
| Data Type | Limit | Enforcement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access Group Memberships | 1000 | Enforced | Please contact Service Desk if you see a need to restrict this further. |
| Roles | 20 | Recommended | Number of roles assigned to a single admin user. The recommended limit includes both system roles and Custom user roles |
Content
The below data types and limits relate to the Authored content in Inspera Assessment.
| Data Type | Limit | Enforcement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Questions in a Question Set | 200 | Recommended | 200 is recommended to maintain usability across both the candidate experience, and the authoring process. |
| Additional resources in question sets | 10 | Recommended | 10 resources (or less) is recommended to maintain usability for the candidates. |
| Inline sections in a Question Set | 50 | Recommended | Recommendation is given to maintain usability for the candidates. |
| Interactions per Question | 20 | Recommended | Recommendation is given to maintain usability for the candidates. |
| Max file size Attachment (for admin users) | 50 MB | Enforced | This applies to all types of uploads performed by an admin user, across all modules of Inspera Assessment. Some examples are: PDF attachments to questions, audio file attachments to questions, attachments to candidates in Monitor, attachemnts to explanations in Grading, etc. |
| Max file size Video | 30 MB | Enforced | This limit is configurable up to 100MB. |
Assessments
The below data types and limits relate to the Assessments in Inspera Assessment.
| Data Type | Limit | Enforcement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| File upload questions: Max file size of uploads by candidates | 1 GB | Enforced | Configurable to 5 GB (contact SD) |
| Contributors on a single Test Event | 300 | Enforced | Please contact Service Desk if you see a need to exceed this limit |
| Committees on a single Test Event | 300 | Enforced | Please contact Service Desk if you see a need to exceed this limit |
| Annotations per Submission | 100 | Recommended | Recommendation is given to maintain usability for the graders. |
| Sending messages to Candidates: Max recipients |
1500 (100) |
Enforced | When "Send to all" is not used: The max number of recipients is determined by the max number of rows available on a single page in Monitor. |
| Reusable Criteria: Max number of reusable marks on a Test | 250 | Enforced | Limit is enforced to maintain usability for the graders. |