Exams

Orient yourself in My Exams — the Exam Center cockpit for planning, grading, and publishing formal module exams under module-level attempt rules.

My Exams is the landing page of the Exam Center in OrgHub. It lists every formal exam instance you have access to based on your role — typically exams where you are a responsible examiner, or exams you can see because you hold organization-wide exam access.

An exam instance here is not a one-off quiz inside a course shell. It is the operational record of a module examination requirement for a cohort and term: who is responsible, when it is scheduled, which attempt students are on, what has been submitted, and which grades have been published. Attempt tabs and usage counters you see here are the day-to-day expression of policy configured in academic rulesets and explained in depth in How exam attempts work.

If you need the broader Exam Center context (exam types, academic rulesets, statistics), start from Exam Center and reporting.

Why it matters

Universities separate day-to-day course work from formal assessment for good reason. Module exams feed transcripts, attempt counters, credit recognition, and institutional reporting. Staff need one place to:

• See which exams they own for the current term
• Plan sittings and deadlines without hunting through individual courses
• Grade and publish under attempt rules that match examination regulations
• Handle accommodations and alternative-date requests before results go out
• Read at a glance how many attempts a student has used (for example, 2/3)

My Exams is that operational cockpit. Without it, examiners lose track of who is on which attempt, pending submissions pile up invisibly, and grade publication becomes inconsistent across modules.

How this fits into Fuxam

My Exams sits at the center of the CMS assessment lifecycle. Configuration lives elsewhere; execution happens here.

CMS exams vs LMS course grades

Use My Exams for official sittings that count toward module completion and institutional reporting. Use LMS grading for formative or course-internal marks. A module may have both; your exam office decides which record is authoritative for transcripts.

Key concepts

Open My Exams

Go to OrgHub → Exam Center → My Exams. The table lists exams with key information such as exam name, module, exam type, cohort, term, scheduled date, and your access level. Depending on your view and filters, you may also see attempt usage for enrolled students (for example, 2/3).

Search and filter exams

Use the toolbar to narrow the list:

• Search — filter by exam name, module name, responsible users, curricula, or cohort.
• Exam type — filter by submission format (file upload, exam, digital exam, presentation, or custom form).
• Term — show only exams in selected academic terms.
• Scheduled date — filter by scheduled date or cohort date range.
• Status — filter by exam lifecycle status for enrolled students.
• Attempt number — filter by attempt (1, 2, …).
• My access — filter by your permission level on each exam (full, grade, plan, or view).

Organization-wide administrators also see a student name filter to find exams for a specific enrolled student.

Open an exam

Select an exam row to open its detail page. The detail page is organized into tabs:

Attempt tabs are generated dynamically based on the maximum number of attempts allowed for the exam — resolved from the student’s effective academic ruleset and the exam type’s attempt workflow. For a walkthrough of the same tabs from a grading-first angle, see Grade and manage an exam.

Submission and grade states (staff view)

Attempt scenarios you will recognize

These worked examples use documented Fuxam mechanics. Domain terms such as resit and reassessment are framed in general examination-regulation language and connected to what you see in My Exams. For the authoritative attempt model, see How exam attempts work.

Scenario A — First sitting (Attempt 1)

A cohort sits the module’s written exam in the winter term. You open Attempt 1, set the appointment or deadline, grade on that tab, then publish. Students who pass contribute toward module completion only if every other required exam for the module also passes in the same term at the same attempt number.

Scenario B — Resit after failure (auto reattempt)

A student fails Attempt 1. Under an auto reattempt exam type, and while still under the ruleset’s failed-attempt ceiling, they become eligible for Attempt 2. My Exams may show attempt usage such as 1/3 after the first sitting is consumed, then 2/3 after the resit is used. You schedule and grade on the Attempt 2 tab — do not overwrite Attempt 1.

Scenario C — Reassessment period (approval-gated Attempt 2)

The exam type uses reassessment period: at most two attempts, and Attempt 2 requires reassessment approval (often via Exam Requests). There is no Attempt 3+. Even if the ruleset allows a higher numeric failed limit, the workflow caps the operational path at two sittings with an approval gate.

Scenario D — Multi-exam module completion

A module requires a written exam and a presentation. Both must pass in the same term at the same attempt number for the module to complete. Passing only the written exam on Attempt 1 while the presentation remains open does not close the module — examiners should coordinate attempt numbers across related exam instances. How marks combine is covered in Module grade calculation.

Scenario E — Permanent failure

When a student exceeds the ruleset’s maximum failed attempts for the module, they are marked permanently failed. Further attempt tabs are not an operational path for that student. Exam offices typically need a defined regulatory process after this outcome appears.

Roles and responsibilities

Where to start

A practical order for a new sitting:

1. Confirm the exam appears after module requirements and enrollment are in place — Create an exam and Exam registration and deregistration.
2. Assign responsibles and, if needed, per-student examiners — Edit an exam / Manage examiners.
3. Schedule the sitting (and rooms as needed) — Schedule exam sittings.
4. Resolve open requests before grading closes — Handle exam requests.
5. Grade on the correct attempt tab — Grade submissions.
6. Publish only when the set is verified — Publish grades.
7. Plan resits and interpret module outcomes — Exam results and resits and Module grade calculation.

For policy questions (why Attempt 2 exists, how 2/3 is calculated, when a module completes), open How exam attempts work before changing operational schedules.

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