Surpass SecureMarker Changelog
In this article
Coming soon: SecureMarker Release 25.1 (ETA: 2025 Q1)
IMPORTANT: This release is still in development and is therefore subject to change.
New
- Enabled and created in Surpass, Assignment Groups let you ensure candidates scripts are marked by a specific pool of markers. SecureMarker users can be added to assignment groups in the Users screen. After assigning a centre to an assignment group in Surpass, any tests taken in a subject that belongs to that centre can be marked by the corresponding assignment group users in SecureMarker (38574, 38575).
- A new SecureMarker OAPI lets you retrieve test scripts including a full marking history for all items in a candidate’s script (46706, 49950, 50287).
Improved
- Item groups can now be created for tests that contain dynamic and/or adaptive sections (45695).
- Terminology in SecureMarker has been changed to match the Surpass Platform, for example “Qualifications” are now “Subjects” (50315).
Fixed
- Where an Essay item with a mark scheme attached is being marked in SecureMarker, there is no longer an issue with downloading the mark scheme caused by moving another Essay item with a mark scheme attached into the same subject in Surpass (47178).
Performance improvements
- Various performance improvements to the marking process in SecureMarker (48416).
SecureMarker Release 24.3 (October 2024)
New
- Zero marked codes, which are alphabetical codes that markers can assign to responses they are awarding a mark of zero, can now be enabled and created from a new Site Settings screen. This functionality is not available by default, contact your Surpass Customer Success Manager to learn more (37029).
SecureMarker Release 24.2 (July 2024)
New
- SecureMarker now supports double and blind double marking, letting you configure scripts to require marking by two independent markers and choose whether the second marker can see the first marker’s mark, comments, and annotations. The final mark assigned to an item is the aggregated mark between the two markers. If a double marked item is marked outside of a defined double marking tolerance, a new Adjudicator role can review and assign a final mark. Contact your Surpass Customer Success Manager if you are interested in this functionality (34884, 36721, 37251, 37798).
Fixed
- An issue with access to item content in the Escalations screen if the user does not also have Marking permissions (23759).
SecureMarker Release 24.1 (April 2024)
NOTE: Beginning with the first Surpass SecureMarker release of 2024, each release will now use the following numbering convention: [Year].[Release Number]
No functional changes were made as part of this release.
SecureMarker Release 2.33 (December 2023)
No functional changes were made as part of this release.
SecureMarker Release 2.32 (September 2023)
Improved
- Markers can now use the Comments option from the annotations tool for standard (HTML) tests (8280).
SecureMarker Release 2.31 (April 2023)
Improved
- Markers can now use the Tick, Symbols, and Highlight Line options from the annotations tool for standard (HTML) tests.
Fixed
- Markers can now assign marked learning outcomes a mark of 0 on items in item groups in escalated scripts (DE44834).
SecureMarker Release 2.30 (December 2022)
Improved
- The special characters and symbols available to candidates in Essay item types in standard delivery are now consistent with those available to item authors. These characters and symbols now display as expected in SecureMarker.
SecureMarker Release 2.29 (August 2022)
Improved
- Third party libraries have been updated so that SecureMarker remains stable and secure.
SecureMarker Release 2.28 (April 2022)
Improved
- Fraction Entry question types can now be marked in SecureMarker.
- Candidate scripts can now be marked in the same order as the candidates completed them.
Fixed
- There are no longer discrepancies in scores across different screens (DE46078).
SecureMarker Release 2.27 (December 2021)
Improved
- LOFT tests can now be marked in SecureMarker.
SecureMarker Release 2.26 (December 2021)
Performance improvements
- The Quotas screen now performs more reliably when assigning multiple markers’ quotas.
SecureMarker Release 2.25 (September 2021)
Improved
- Custom Question types can now be marked in SecureMarker.
Performance improvements
- The performance and reliability when passing large volumes of exams through to SecureMarker from Surpass has been optimised.
SecureMarker Release 2.24 (September 2021)
Fixed
- Audio Capture responses no longer indicate that a document is required if an exam is unexpectedly closed while loading the item (DE44726).
- Item groups can be created in the Item Groups screen (DE45068).
- HTML items now display properly in the Quality Control screen (DE44957).
SecureMarker Release 2.23 (March 2021)
Improved
- All HTML item types can be viewed and marked in SecureMarker.
Fixed
- Source material attached to items grouped in the Item Groups screen now displays properly (DE43805).
- Selecting a different exam when on the Item Groups screen now loads and displays properly (DE42835).
SecureMarker Release 2.22 (November 2020)
Fixed
- Marked metadata now displays correctly even if an item was not viewed in delivery (DE27828).
- Examiner suspensions now persist even if competency rules have been updated since an examiner was last suspended (DE17265).
- Resized columns now persist as expected when users leave the Script Review screen (DE19057).
SecureMarker Release 2.21 (March 2020)
Fixed
- Marking restrictions are now enabled by default in the Quality Control screen (DE14031).
- General comments are now limited to 999 characters (DE21900).
- Marked learning outcomes now work as expected when creating control items (DE42066).
- Response IDs now update correctly when submitting responses as control items (DE42169).
SecureMarker Release 2.20 (January 2020)
New
- Multiple scripts can now be exported to a spreadsheet in the Script Review screen.
Improved
- Users can now export up to 15,000 scripts to a spreadsheet.
SecureMarker Release 2.19 (November 2019)
New
- Large amounts of scripts can now be sent from SecureMarker to Surpass in the Script Review screen.
Improved
- Some exam-level functionality has been added to the Additional Options menu in the Quality Control screen, including decimal marking and marking restrictions.
- A new Moderate Comments toggle has been added to the Quality Control screen, allowing users to control whether comments are required when changing marks during moderation.
SecureMarker Release 2.18 (August 2019)
Improved
- A new External Reference filter has been added to the Script Review screen.
- Shared resources attached to items can now be viewed in the Marking screen.
Fixed
- Moderated scripts now appear correctly in the Script Review screen (DE38079).
- Assigned marks now display correctly when moderating item groups (DE37680).
- The Score Change pencil icon is now fully visible in the Candidate Scripts grid of the Script Review screen (DE38058).
- Correct item versions now appear as expected (DE36544).
SecureMarker Release 2.17 (April 2019)
New
- A new Moderated toggle has been added to the Script Review screen.
Improved
- More functionality has been added to the Script Review screen to indicate the status of scripts more clearly.
Fixed
- Items with updated mark schemes now display properly in SecureMarker (DE36645).
SecureMarker Release 2.16 (February 2019)
New
- All candidate responses in SecureMarker now have a unique response ID.
Improved
- A new Examiner Search filter has been added to the Script Review screen.
Fixed
- All items now load as expected in SecureMarker (DE35494).