Offline Security

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Test Pilot allows you to control access to each assessment with little or no assistance from your technical support staff. You don't need to know how to manage or administer a web server to do it.

The Security Controls in a Test Pilot database permit you to determine just who the web server extension will permit access to the assessments generated. Security can be made as tight as you wish and has been compared favorably to that possible with ordinary paper exams and tests. You may restrict access:

• by user id - Specify a list of id's and names of those permitted to access an assessment. Without a listed id, access to your assessment is denied.
  
  
• by time and date - You may specify a starting and ending time and date for you assessment. Access is denied outside of your specified range.
  
  
• with time limits - You may specify a time limit for having a user submit their responses. Outside of that limit, user submissions are discarded.
  
  
• by request count - You may specify that users on the id list may only view a test a specified number of times.
  
  
• by submission count - You may specify that users on the id list may only submit their responses a specified number of times.
  
  
• by computer - You may specify the Internet addresses of computer permitted to access your assessment. It is thus possible to restrict access to a particular computer or set of computers. The assistance of your technical support staff may be required in obtaining these addresses.

The Global Info security controls present the author with entries vital to the security of their assessments. You must specify an owner id and password in order to secure access to the online assessment administration controls. These controls include access to user response data and scores.

• title - this message will appear in the browser title bar of users participating in your assessment. It should be entered as plain text since the display of HTML in window title bars is not possible.
  
  
• prepared by - this info will be appended to a prepared by message and displayed at the bottom of the web pages generarted for your assessment.
  
  
• owner id and password - these are used to seucre access to the online assessment administration owner options. They may be any arbitrary single line text. When entered into the user id of a Test Pilot login screen, access to the owner options will be granted. They should be entered in the form id,password (note no spaces). In the example above, you would enter wmd,demo into the Test Pilot login screen's user id box when accessing the assessment's administrative options.
  
  
• owner e-mail - Test Pilot's administrative options include the ability to e-mail participants with their scores. The owner e-mail address listed above is used as the return address for those e-mailings. The address should be in standard Internet format (e.g. user@domain.net). Use of proprietary, non-Internet formats (e.g. internal Microsoft Exchange Addresses) will result in nonfunctional return addresses.