• 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.

Workstation Security

You may specify a list of workstations which are authorized to access your assessment. Test Pilot acomplishes this by restricting access based on the unique Internet address assigned to a computer. You may need the assistance of your technical support staff to get a list of the Internet addresses (IP addresses) of the computers to which you want your assessments restricted.

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 workstation addresses. 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 workstation 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 workstation list, you may not make any changes.

The format is addresses entered one per line in the file or in a box on the screen shown above. We offer a handy shortcut if you wish to permit all computers on an Internet subnet to access you assessment. That is for example, all computers whose IP address begins with 128.210.13. This actually refers to 254 computers and you simply need to enter the subnet address ot the IP address without the rightmost period and number. Two subnet examples are shown above. The entries are entered one per line in the current list box on the screen shown above.

Like participant lists, IP lists can be shared between assessments by listing the addresses in an ASCII text file residing on the web server. This permits the sharing of workstation lists between multiple assessments. If you choose to keep the 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 IP list filenames in X.tpj in order to take advantage of that built-in protection. (e.g. iplistX.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.