Candidate types

A candidate is student information in context of an assessment. A student can be a candidate on several tests but a candidate can only belong to one test.

If you want to add candidates to a test by using self-signup, please go to this article: Assign learners by test code

One time users

This option lets you assign one time users to a test. The user, including username and password, are generated by Inspera Assessment. The usernames and passwords are available in the test after the test is activated.

You can name your one time candidates according to your preferences or you can choose to let the Inspera generated ID stand as it is. The candidate ID is a text string, and you can use letters, numbers, symbols, or a combination.

When a student logs in as a one time user the associated test will be available in the Dashboard. If there are demo tests available the student can start these as well.

One time users can be assigned to the test in two different ways. Both of them starts the same place, by managing candidates in the test:

This options opens the candidate list. At the top right of the page there is an option to add candidates, choose one-time users here. This presents you with three options:

• Add new (preselected) - this lets you add candidates one by one
  • Give the candidate an ID and add extra time if applicable
• Auto generate candidates - this lets you choose a number of candidates that will be auto generated.
  • Edit candidate ID and add extra time if applicable
• Import from file (.csv)
  • import a file you have prepared. The csv file requires two columns only:
    Candidate ID, extra time

The one time users are standalone, and if a student has more than one they cannot be combined. The student must log in with the username and password that belongs to each one time user.

SSO one-time users

Note that you must have an SSO login enabled on your account to have this option available.

To add candidates specifically for SSO users, do the same as above but when you add candidates, choose CSV import (SSO) instead.

Select authentication type (some customers have several SSO setups) and choose file to upload. The required format is three columns:

Candidate ID, SSO user ID, extra time

Optional: You can also add location information in this import, by adding up to two more columns making the total five columns:

Candidate ID, SSO user ID, extra time, Building name, Room name

If you only want to assign room, the column for building must still be there, but leave it empty. Room and building information will be available in the candidate list in Monitor, just add the columns as they are not visible by default. 

Permanent users

These are users that can be added as candidates on more than one test. There is currently only one way to create them and that is by uploading a CSV file. Once the users are uploaded, they can be selected to be candidates on tests. The students log in with the same username and password to access all their tests

This is not a widely used method of assigning candidates and the specific format required in the CSV file will be different for different customers. If you are planning on using this particular candidate type please contact Inspera Service Desk to get the correct format that applies to you.

This particular candidate type is being further developed and the functionality will be significantly expanded in the future.