Plug Evalmee into your tools

Evalmee is added as an external tool activity in the course, in LTI 1.3. The teacher creates the exam from the LMS, synchronizes the students of the course to Evalmee, then sends the grades back to the LMS once the grading is done.

MoodleMoodleAn open-source learning platform, distributed under the GPL licence and very widely deployed in French-speaking higher education. Its openness explains why it serves as the reference for integration: an assessment tool that does not plug into it forces teachers to keep two lists of students.See the full definition, Canvas and Blackboard are the three integrations whose full cycle is documented, creation, enrolment synchronization and grade return included. Brightspace and Insendi are set up with our team, and their scope is discussed case by case. Questions already written elsewhere come in as a QTI package, which our free QTI converter builds from a document.

Two shared limits are worth knowing before planning a new academic year. The synchronization takes every student of the course: assigning a specific LMSLMS (learning management system)A platform that hosts an institution's courses, enrolments and learner tracking. It is students' daily point of entry, which makes integration with the LMS — rather than the standalone quality of an exam tool — the practical condition of that tool actually being adopted.See the full definition group is not possible yet. And the other teachers of the course do not automatically become collaborators on the exam in Evalmee. What the six other French vendors document on LTI and on single sign-on is set out, row by row, in the comparison of online exam platforms.

One point about plans, because it changes the invoice. The LMS integration belongs to the Organization plan, on quote: it is not opened in the Mini, Pro and Max plans, whose details are on the Pricing page. A teacher subscribing alone at 19 € a month will therefore not get the activity inside their course.

Four identity providers are documented: Google Sign-in, Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, CAS and OneLogin. Sign-in can be restricted to a list of allowed domain names, for example the addresses of your institution.

Setting it up goes through our team: there is no self-service SSOSingle sign-on (SSO)A mechanism allowing a user to sign in to several services with their institutional account, through protocols such as SAML, CAS, Shibboleth or OpenID Connect. It removes the need to create dedicated passwords and makes revoking an access immediate when an account is closed.See the full definition configuration screen. In practice it is settled in one exchange, and that is the same occasion to frame the list of allowed domains.

If your identity provider is not on this list, tell us rather than assume it is impossible. We would rather give a clear answer than an integration advertised in a brochure and absent from the product.

The public API, in version 2, covers exams and their papers, sessions, participants, invitations, assessment criteria, attempts, results and the emails sent to participants. It is served over HTTPS, in JSON, with OAuth 2.0 authentication in client credentials flow and a token valid for 24 hours.

The scope is deliberately tight, and the documentation says so itself: these are the current public endpoints. They are enough to create an exam, import a paper into it, enrol or remove participants in bulk, send them their invitations, then retrieve grades and grades per criterion.

Two points to build in from the design stage. There is no webhook: the results are retrieved by call, which suits a periodic synchronization. And the API returns no aggregates: it returns grades, and the averages are calculated on your side.

Moodle question banks are exported in XML format, then imported into Evalmee, either as an exam paper or as banks to draw questions from. Only questions of type multiplechoice and essay are carried over.

Bank imports follow a naming rule worth knowing: one bank is created for each lowest category of the Moodle hierarchy, and its name concatenates the parent categories.

One limit weighs on how the work is organized more than on the migration itself: the banks are not shared between exams, they have to be added to each exam.