Access DigiExam

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Summary	DigiExam is a browser-based secure exam too which allows teachers to create and distribute an assessment
Author	Maintained by Matthijs van Mierlo
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Status	Up-to-date for the 2023-2024 school year.

What is DigiExam?

DigiExam has taken the place of Exam Accounts at the Upper School. DigiExam allows teachers at the Upper School to administer an online exam to students, while preventing the test taker from leaving the DigiExam application. The application allows for Text Responses Questions (with a great word processor), Multiple Choice Questions, and Multiple Response Questions. Faculty, if you would like a DigiExam account, please submit a Tech Request at support.riverdale.edu. To use DigiExam you only need to create your exam, and then share the Exam ID with your students. All MS and US students automatically have DigiExam accounts, and their Student ID is set to their email address.

For MS Students

Access DigiExam from a ChromeBook

1. Log out of your account
2. Click Apps in the lower left hand corner of the screen.
   
3. Select DigiExam
4. Log into DigiExam with your Riverdale e-mail and your DigiExam password
   • Don't forget to tick the box for USA, or you won't be able to log in
   • If you don't know your password, or if you're using DigiExam for the first time, please visit app-us.digiexam.com/app#/forgot-password. Use your Riverdale email address and then reset your DigiExam password according to their directions.

For US Students

Access DigiExam from a laptop

1. Download the DigiExam client from here.
2. Log into DigiExam with your Riverdale e-mail and your DigiExam password
   • Don't forget to tick the box for USA, or you won't be able to log in
   • If you don't know your password, or if you're using DigiExam for the first time, please visit app-us.digiexam.com/app#/forgot-password. Use your Riverdale email address and then reset your DigiExam password according to their directions.

For Faculty

Create Exam

1. Log in at https://app-us.digiexam.com/app#/
2. There are 4 different question types you can ask:
   • Text
   • Multiple Choice
   • Multiple Answer (More than one correct answer from the available choices)
   • Word Gap
3. For each question type, you can add media by clicking the + Media button. Media options are:
   • YouTube Video
     • Just enter a YouTube URL to allow students to view a video as part of answering a question.
   • Audio
     • You can do this with a URL that ends in .mp3, but more likely you will want to do this with audio you upload to Google Drive. Here are directions:
       1. Upload the file to e.g. Google Drive
       2. Right-click on the file and click on Get link
       3. Change the setting so that Anyone with the link is chosen
       4. Click on Copy link
       5. Go back to exam in DigiExam.
       6. Click on + Add media
       7. Choose Web page (Single web page)
       8. Paste the link and click on Add link. The audio link will now appear as a grey box containing the chosen title. To test the link, preview your exam and click on the grey box. You should now hear the audio your web browser.
       9. If you want the audio to play on the same page as the question, without linking to an external webpage, it is necessary to keep only the code after the equal sign and paste the following link in front of the code: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id= For example:
          • From: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rFd3W7ti3imFcHX6_RE0z8dPTDbljqFG/view?usp=sharing
          • To: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1rFd3W7ti3imFcHX6_RE0z8dPTDbljqFG
   • Webpage
     • When you add a webpage, you have the option to allow access to a specific webpage, or an entire domain (e.g. All of Wikipedia, or one particular Wikipedia page).
   • PDF's
     • To link a PDF to your exam, first the PDF has to be on a web page.
       • If the PDF-file is already on a website and the link ends with .pdf, add it as a PDF.
       • If the PDF-file is not on a website and is locally on your device. The PDF-file has to be uploaded first, e.g. Google Drive and then linked as a Web page (not PDF) when choosing from the drop down menu. Please follow the steps below in order to link to an audio-file that is not on a website.
       1. Upload the file to e.g. Google Drive.
       2. Right-click on the file and click on Get link.
       3. Change the setting so that Anyone with the link is chosen.
       4. Click on Copy link.
       5. Go back to exam in DigiExam.
       6. Click on + Add media.
       7. Choose Web page (Single web page).
       8. Paste the link and click on Add link. The PDF link will now appear as a grey box containing the chosen title. To test the PDF, preview your exam and click on the grey box. You should now see the PDF in your web browser.

For Faculty

Administer Exam

Download the DigiExam client from [https://www.digiex