Page Comparison

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1. Set up your blueprint
2. Create your OSCE stations (in Items)
3. Combine OSCE stations into an Exam (in Item Sets)
4. Schedule your Exam
5. Start Exam

6. Deliver Exam

Logging In

1. Log into Practique. 
   
2. Once logged into Practique, you will see the tab bar at the top:

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• Dashboard: where your current exams show
• Blueprints: the framework of the exam
• Items: the questions or stations
• Item Sets: the papers or collections of stations that make up a particular exam
• Exams: where you create the exams; details including date, time, standard setting to be used etc.
• Resources: where you upload documents used for each station e.g. Examiner info pack, actor briefing notes, student briefing. It can include documents, images, videos etc.
• Reports: where you find reports on completed exams. Note: not covered in this basic tutorial
• Help: access to Knowledge Base to get further help, Services Desk to report problems or bugs, Practique HQ for updates about Practique Note: not covered in this basic tutorial
• Settings: access to user management, device management, OSCE global marking settings and candidates & examiners management

Blueprints

This is how you can define the information about the structure of the exam.

1. Click on the Blueprints tab. 
   You are presented wit this screen: 
   
   
   In order to run an exam in Practique you do not need a Master Blueprint but you always need to set your Exam Blueprint. 
   
   
2. Click on Create Exam Blueprints.
   

   The next screen you see is the create exam blueprint page. 

   

3. Give the exam a name. (Remember it, you’ll need it later!)

4. For exam type, select OSCE.

5. Exam size is the number of different questions or stations you need. For now, enter 2.

   The remaining 4 questions are optional. For now, we will leave them blank. But explanations have been provided below.

   • Exam venue candidate capacity: This is the number of candidates per circuit. Include rest stations in this number.
   • Number of blocks: the number of sets of questions used in a day. If 1 set of questions is being used all day it would be 1 block. If 2 sets of questions are being used it would be 2 blocks.
   • Number of sessions: the number of times the exam repeats itself in a day.
   • Number of circuits: the number of simultaneous exams (rotations) running. For example, if using two rooms of 10 stations each, with each candidate taking 10 stations, you would enter 2.
   • Standard setting method: the default standard setting for the exam. If you select one at this stage, it can be changed at a later stage. 
     
     
6. Click on Create Blueprint. 
   You are now taken to a screen to edit constraints for your exam. Constraints are limitations on the structure of the exam. This would be needed if you wanted to allow the questions to be automatically selected from a bank of questions. We won’t look at these for now.
   
7. Click on Back to Blueprints.

Items

This is how you create stations.

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Congratulations, that station is ready to go. Try repeating the whole process to make a second station. Give it a different name and questions.

Item Sets

In the item sets tab, you will be able to combine stations into an exam, or questions into a paper.

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1. Click Submit for Review
2. Leave the boxes blank and click Submit
3. Click Approve (Green button).
4. Click Approve (Blue button). 

Exams       

In the exam screen, you will set up the detailed exam information such as rotations, examiners and students.

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Our Exam is now made and ready to go! Let’s try it out.

Starting Exams  

1. Click the Exams tab.
2. Find your exam, and click on View.
3. Click on ‘View Sessions’
4. Click Publish to devices.

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