Quality Control > Releasing an exam for marking in SecureMarker

Releasing an exam for marking in SecureMarker

NOTE: You must have the Quality Control > Release Exam For Mass Marking permission to release an exam for marking in the Quality Control screen.

SecureMarker includes several quality control features that ensure scripts are marked fairly within accepted tolerances. When you have configured your exam’s quality control settings in the Quality Control screen, you can release the exam for marking.

This article explains how to release an exam for marking in the Quality Control screen of SecureMarker, including how to stop an examiner from marking.

1. Go to the Quality Control screen

To view the Quality Control screen, select Quality Control on the top navigation bar.

NOTE: For more information about Quality Control, read About the Quality Control screen in SecureMarker.

2. Select a qualification and exam

Select the Qualification/Exam menu on the navigation bar.

3. Select Release Exam For Marking

IMPORTANT: Before you can release an exam for marking, you must ensure that your quality control settings are configured in the Quality Control screen. For more information, read About the Quality Control screen in SecureMarker.

Select Release Exam For Marking to release all items and item groups in the exam for marking. For more information about exam-level actions in the Quality Control screen, read ‘About exam-level actions’ in About the Quality Control Screen in SecureMarker.

Releasing items for marking

Select Release Item for Marking to release a specific item or item group for marking. For more information, read ‘About item-level actions’ in About the Quality Control Screen in SecureMarker.

4. Confirm release

Select OK in the Release All Items dialog to confirm you want to release the exam for marking.

When an exam has been released for marking, all items and item groups in the exam appear as Released () in the Status column of the Items grid.

When a specific item or item group has been released for marking, they appear as Released () in the Status column of the Items grid.

Stopping marking

NOTE: You must have the Quality Control > Resume Marking permission to stop and resume marking in the Quality Control screen.

You can stop marking for released exams and items in the Quality Control screen. Select Stop Marking to stop marking for all items and item groups in an exam.

Select OK in the Recall All Items dialog to confirm you want to stop marking for all items and item groups in an exam.

To suspend marking for a specific item or item group in an exam, select Stop Marking.

When marking has been stopped for exams and specific items, they appear as Stopped () in the Status column of the Items grid.