The Introduction to The Evaluator Platform

Functions And Purposes of an Evaluator

WHAT IS AN EVALUATOR

An evaluator on Lucid Exams is responsible for assessing (marking) a candidate’s exam script, judging the candidate’s performance and learning, identifying areas for improvement, and providing constructive feedback on the assessments. There are two types of evaluators on Lucid Exams: the assessor and the moderator.

Assessor: a person who has been approved by the relevant Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) body to assess candidates' knowledge and skills against specific National Qualifications Framework (NQF) unit standards and qualifications.

Moderator : is someone employed to umpire assessments and ensure that the results are fair, valid, and reliable. Moderators only assess candidates’ who have asked for a remark, to make sure their results are fair and valid. Moderators are responsible for ensuring that quality assurance principles are applied and maintained throughout the assessment and that the learning outcomes are met.

 

FUNCTIONS AND PURPOSE OF AN EVALUATOR

Lucid exams need evaluators, for a variety of purposes:

• To conduct assessment according to established assessments principles and decide whether the candidate is competent or not yet competent.
• Collect evidence of the candidates’ performance.
• Evaluate and judge the evidence
• Provide feedback to the candidate.
• To measure the candidate’s progress in a course
• To ensure that principles of quality assurance are applied and maintained during assessment.
• Evaluate or assess students’ exam script that have been assigned to you.

The Lucid Exams System Overview

Brief Overview of the Lucid Exams System

Lucid Exams is a product of Lucidity training. Lucidity is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) platform that enables training providers to create, market, sell, and deliver online courses. It also gives private companies that want to pursue a training program for employees, members, contractors, consultants, and other stakeholders a platform to impart knowledge and grow as a team.

Lucid Exams is an end-to-end online examination solution with all the "bells and whistles." It provides complete exam solutions, including exam setup, excellent proctoring, communication, surveys, assessments, and certification.

With transparency in online exams, you can identify and discourage academic dishonesty during remote assessments. We have integrated artificial intelligence to recognise unusual movements, sounds, and behaviours to help you maintain the integrity of your examinations.

The main functionalities available in the Lucid Exams system per user role consist of:

• Super administrator role
  • Managing system users (the clients)
  • Managing clients reports
  • Managing the system’s configuration
• Administrator role
  • Manage people linked to the organisation.
  • Organisation configuration
  • Create and manage examinations.
  • Create and manage organisation evaluators which consist of exam markers, assessors, and moderators.
  • Create and manage invigilators.
  • Manages communication within the organisation and people linked to the organisation.
  • Reporting
  • Creating certificate and email templates
  • Manages the organisation’s account and its users.
• Evaluators
  • Evaluate or assess students’ exam script that have been assigned to them.
• Proctors/invigilators
  • Invigilator candidates that have been assigned to them when writing the examinations.
• Exam takers
  • Register for exams.
  • View exams registered for
  • Carry out practice exams.
  • Write exams.
  • Download resources and certificates.

The Functionality of the Lucid Exams System

System Functionality

A user starts the process by logging into the system using a valid username and password combination. A new user must first be registered to obtain access to the system.

Users with administrative privileges reserve the exclusive right to register new system users. A system administrative account is provided by the system designers to register all kinds of administrators and other system users, enabling the administrators to access exclusive privileges per their admin roles (admin or super admin), such as registering new users with either the normal user or administrative privileges.

During user registration, all users are issued with unique username and password combinations as well as a specific user type. This combination is then used by the registered user to access the system resources that fall under their privilege level.

A user gains access to the system resources after a username and password combination has been verified as accurate, after which they are redirected to the homepage. Therefore, once a user is logged into the system, they can access all system resources available to them based on their privilege level(s).

Once logged into the system, the user can create, manipulate, and truncate records. However, the amount of manipulation that a user can perform with regard to the records is dependent on user privilege levels, as explained above.

 

USER PRIVILEGES

The system maintains different levels of users namely:

• Super administrator
• Administrator
• Evaluators (assessors)
• Invigilators (proctors)
• Exam takers

User privileges are limited to each system user role level.

The Challenges Users of the System May Encounter While Trying to Utilise the System

Failing to Login to The System

If you can't log in, it can be because of the following reasons:

• Your username or password is incorrect. You can request a password reset by providing your email address to receive the URL to reset your password.
• Your account is not linked to the organisation you want to log into. You can request the administrator to link your account.
• Lack of Internet connectivity. Without an internet connection, a user may not be able to log into the system. You can fix your internet connection to log in.

An Overview of The Evaluator's User Role

The Evaluator User Role

As an assessor, i should be able to:

• Log into the system as an assessor
• Update and view my profile
• update my password 
• Evaluate or assess students’ exam script that have been assigned to you.
• Review answers after assessing before submitting
• View all assessed candidates