• Global Info - this allows you to edit the assessment owner's e-mail address, and if you are the assessment owner, define assessment managers with varying priviliges to assist you in the management of your assessment.
  
  
• Time Limits - this allows you to specify limits as to when your assessment may be accessed. You may also specify a limit on the amount of time that participants are given to complete an assessment.
  
  
• Attempt Limits - this allows you to limit the number of times that an assessment may be viewed or the number of times participants are permitted to submit responses to your assessment.
  
  
• Authorized Participants - this allows you to specify a list of participant id's and names. Only participants on this list are permitted to access the assessment.
  
  
• Authorized Workstations - this allows you to specify a list of internet addresses representing workstations permitted to access the assessment.

These features combined allow you to specify who may access an assessment, from where and at what time. For example, you could restrict access to a particular computer laboratory at a particular time. With a proctor checking id's at the door, you enjoy the same level of security as a paper-based test.

Test Pilot's security features represent the most comprehensive set of security features for online assessment in the industry.

Authorized Participants

You may specify a list of participants who are authorized to access your assessment. The list contains user ids and optionally may include names and e-mail addresses. It is the ids from this list that users may enter into the Test Pilot login screen's user id box to secure access to your assessment. Comparison IS CASE sensitive!

The list may be a private list that belongs to one assessment alone OR it may be a shared list where multiple assessments share a common list of participants. Finally it may be a centrally managed public list that is shared by many assessments and many assessment authors. By default, each assessment has a private participant list. Shared lists must be created at the assessment index level. Shared lists may be assigned to assessments at the assessment index management level. Public lists must be created and maintained at the administrative level. If you do not have editing permission on the user list, you may not make any changes.

Editing Participant Lists - v4.2 and earlier (Info for v4.3 and later)

You may elect to allow users to register themselves in a user list providing that the list is NOT a public list. Also, self-registration is not possible if the assessment is marked as anonymous. When enabled, participants see an additional item on the assessment's login screen - a register button. When clicked, the user is prompted to enter their information including, name, e-mail address, id and password. Once they enter the information and click register they are added to the user list and subject to all access restrictions as are defined for users in the list. When used with a shared user list, this option can permit auto-registration into a bank of assessments with one transaction. (v4.1.3 and later)

Test Pilot provides you with the option of using a Test Pilot Classic v3 id list in the space provided or in an ASCII text file residing on the web server. This permits the sharing of user lists between multiple assessments. If you choose to keep the user list in a file, enter a name in the providied lookaside file space. The file must reside in the same server directory as your assessment's URL indicates. When Test Pilot is configured properly, it protects from access filenames ending with the extension .tpj We recommend that you end your access list filenames in X.tpj in order to take advantage of that built-in protection. (e.g. accessX.tpj, the X is to avoid conflicts with Test Pilot v3 result filenames which also end in .tpj)

The mode popup menu allows you to adjust access to Test Pilot features and trim the detail of the automatically provided assistance for authoring.