Inspera Assessment User Roles

What role do I need?

The table below indicates which Inspera role you may need depending on your staff role at the university.

The table below indicates which Inspera role you may need depending on your staff role.

Summary of roles

The following guide provides a summary of the core functions and accessibility levels associated with each of the Inspera Assessment User Roles.

Planner

Users with Planner access can:

• Create assessments
• Edit assessment settings
• Allocate and edit other contributors to an assessment
• Determine the students who will take the assessment
• Attach the content (Question Set) to an assessment
• Preview assessment content
• Activate/deactivate assessment
• View assessment in Grading mode
• Add/edit the committees that will mark the assessment
• Edit grader workflow
• Download marks and grades as CSV.

Author

Users with Author access can:

• Create questions
• Set marking rules on questions
• Add and edit question mark scheme, bands and criteria and other marking guidance
• Edit all question settings
• Add labels to questions
• Create and edit the content structure of an assessment (Question Set)
• Set randomisation and pull settings
• Add resources to question set
• Share questions and question sets with other users.

Grader

Users with Grader access can:

• View and download student submissions
• Set marks or grades on questions
• Apply automatically calculated grade
• Override automatic marks on questions
• Confirm own/final grading (depending on workflows determined by the planner)
• View the associated Question set for an assessment
• Upload mark scheme
• Add private comments on learner level and question level
• Add an explanation of grade
• Request and view similarity report (may be restricted to Planners only)
• Comment directly in submission.

Invigilator

Users with Invigilator access can:

• Get access to the test information 60 minutes prior to the test start time (unless they have other user roles which provide greater access)
• View Invigilator and Student passwords to access the assessment
• View and download Invigilator instructions
• View student list for an assessment

Chief Invigilator

Users with Chief Invigilator access can:

• Get access to the test information 60 minutes prior to the test start time (unless they have other user roles which provide greater access)
• View Invigilator and Student passwords to access the assessment
• Change assessment start and end time
• Preview assessment
• Download and print assessment
• View and download Invigilator instructions
• View student list for an assessment
• Apply available actions to individual students such as:

1. Add/subtract individual extra time
2. Location (building/ room)
3. Set attending/not attending
4. Set ID confirmed/rejected
5. Pause/unpause (resume) assessment timer
6. Upload a student’s offline submission
7. View student submission.