September 1st 2016. Introducing updated candidate lists in Inspera Assessment.

Why the change?

When setting up and managing tests with several hundred candidates some users experienced slow loading of the candidate lists. We have heard your feedback that viewing and editing candidates in the Deliver tool was slow. To help you do this faster, we are introducing an updated interface for candidates.

What is it?

We moved the candidates lists to the Setup page and made it easier to manage individual candidates as well as multiple candidates at once. We also updated the columns, making it more flexible to display the columns you want, in the order you want them.

The Candidate step is gone

And replaced by a new Candidates section in the setup page

When clicking Manage or the View all widget, the new candidates list the whole screen

Using the new candidates list during setup

During setup, you can do same tasks in the new Candidate list, as you could in the previous version, including:

Toggling individual or group mode
Adding candidates
Editing planned extra time
Removing candidats
Toggling Spell Checker
Managing group membership

You can now take advantage of features previously only available in the Monitor Tool:

Search
Saving searches as Dashboard Widgets
Filters
Flexible columns

In addition, new improvements to in the Monitor, are also available in the Candidate list.

Multi-select candidates and apply batch-operations
Mobile-first footer menu

Using the new candidates list overlay after activation

When a test has been activated, you will still find your candidates above the option section, not as a list, but as widgets that updates live during your test.

Candidate widgets in the activated page. Click View all to get a complete candidate list.

Clicking on any of these widgets opens the new candidates list, just like in the setup step, but this time with more available actions.

For activated tests, planners can now do much more before the test actually opens for candidates:

Send message
Edit grading committee
Attach file
Delete candidate
Edit planned extra time
Edit incident extra time
Set as Attending
Set as Not attending
Confirm ID
Reject ID

Known issues on release sept. 1 2016

Tests with FS sync still have some performance issues.

Feedback request

Does the new lists make setting up new tests easier?
What do you think about the candidates list overlaying the rest of the tool?
Do you find yourself customizing the columns to display for your lists? What properties are you including?

Feedback in any languages are welcome. Use the comments field below.

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