Here is an overview of the terminology used throughout Practique. This may help you to align your own exams setup to how we present them within the system.
Definitions
Item - station (OSCE) or question (written exams).
Item Set - a collection of Items to be used in an exam. This can be re-used over multiple exams.
Exam - one or more Item Sets scheduled into an exam on a specified date.
Blueprint categories - individual tags that you can create and attach to your Items throughout the system to enable in depth reporting.
Exams
Exam venue candidate capacity
This is the maximum number of candidates that your exam venue can accommodate per circuit.
Exam block
One block can accommodate one Item set. Increasing the number of exam blocks in one day allows you to run multiple Item sets on the same exam day.
Session
Sessions are run sequentially and contain a group of one or more circuit(s). Usually multiple sessions will allow different groups of candidates to take the same exam on the same day.
Circuit
Circuits are run concurrently and are attached to a particular session. The number of candidates each circuit can contain is dependent on your Exam venue candidate capacity setting.
Round
The duration of one regular station, at the end of which usually the candidate or examiner will rotate to follow on to the next station in their schedule.
Floor marshal
Each circuit is led by one floor marshal. This person will have the responsibility of monitoring the rate of mark submissions from examiners and advancing the exam rounds in online mode.
Default standard setting method
Choose between Angoff, Ebel, Borderline Group and Borderline Regression. Read more about this here
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