What is Evalmee for?
A selection test, a placement test, continuous assessment and a degree-awarding exam carry neither the same stakes nor the same level of monitoring. These pages start from the assessment situation and describe the Evalmee setup that fits it.
What this section brings together
What is at stake in an exam governs everything else. It decides the level of monitoring — the CNIL, France's data protection authority, even recommends that a low-stakes exam be run without remote proctoringRemote proctoringThe set of arrangements that make it possible to supervise a candidate sitting outside an exam centre: video and audio capture, screen monitoring, detection of atypical behaviour. The level chosen must stay proportionate to the stakes of the exam and to the data it leads you to collect. — the question formats, how fine the marking scheme has to be, how fast results are expected back, and what record has to be kept. The four pages below therefore start from the situation, not from the feature: for each one, you will find the Evalmee setup that matches it, and the reasons behind that setup.
Pick your assessment situation
Admission and recruitment
Select candidates remotely, with fair tests and a record that holds up to challenge.
Diagnostic and placement
Measure where a group starts, so the rest of the course can be aimed properly.
Formative and continuous assessment
Assess often and without friction, so the mark serves progress first.
Certification and degree exams
Hold high-stakes exams with the level of monitoring and evidence they demand.
Four situations, four setups
When the exam is there to separate candidates, fairness comes first: a different paper for each one, individually adjusted extra timeAménagements d'épreuves (French exam access arrangements)The full set of adaptations available to a candidate with a disability: adapted material conditions, technical and human assistance, spreading exams over several sessions, retention of marks for five years, adapted or waived papers. The authority organising the exam decides and notifies its decision., and a record of the sitting solid enough to stand up to a challenge. Admission and recruitment.
When the exam is there to place a group before you start, the mark does not matter at all: what counts is reading the gaps quickly, question by question, so you can adjust the course from the first week. Diagnostic and placement.
When assessment comes round every week, the cost of running it becomes the real subject: reusable templates, near-immediate grading, feedback reaching the candidate while they still remember what they answered. Formative and continuous assessment.
When a degree or a certification is at stake, the question becomes one of evidence: identity verified, exam conditions documented, retention periodsData retention periodThe length of time personal data may remain in an active database. The CNIL points out that it is determined by the purpose of the processing: at the end of that period the data must be deleted, anonymised or archived, which bears directly on remote proctoring recordings. set in advance and aligned with what the CNIL recommends. Certification and degree exams.
The same institution often goes through all four over the course of a year. That is exactly why it is worth setting monitoring exam by exam rather than once and for all.
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