Clone exams

You may choose to clone an exam when setting up additional versions of your main exam. Exam version can include:

• On campus exams
• Exams for students with certain exam provisions
• Alternative or supplementary exams

Some examples of why a student might need a cloned exam include:

• Assistive technology accessibility requirement – a student has an approved exam provision to use assistive technology during the exam, which requires customised ProctorU settings to the original exam to allow the assistive technology to work
• Split exam accessibility requirement – a student has an approved exam provision where they need to sit the exam in multiple sittings
• Exams taken on-campus – a student doesn’t consent to AI invigilation or may have other exam provisions where they will be invigilated by a person on campus (the AI invigilation settings would need to be switched off for those students)

Do not duplicate the exam by using the ‘Copy to’ option as it will override the original exam. Cloning a Canvas exam needs follow very specific steps or there is a risk of jeopardising the exam for other students.  

1. Export the exam (Canvas guide) to a QTI zip file from the subject site
2. Import the exam (Canvas guide) to the subject site
3. Move the quiz into the same assignment group as the main exam 
4. Add the following names at the end of the quiz name to differentiate each exam: 
   ‘– Exam Provision’ for exam provisions 
   ‘– On Campus’ for campus exams 
   ‘– Exam Provision A’ and ‘– Exam Provision B’ for split exams 
   ‘– Alternative’ for alternative exams 
   ‘– Supplementary’ for supplementary exams 
5. Assign the quiz to the individual students at the specific time that they will be taking the exam (information will be emailed to you from the Exams team)
6. Check if you need to allow for additional time for students. The LLE Exams team will do this for you if the exams are centrally conducted. For faculty-based exams: if it’s only one student who requires the cloned exam, change the time on the exam rather than using moderate; if there are multiple students with different time provisions use moderate this quiz to add extra time for each student
7. Check that the other settings are correct
8. Replace any question groups that link to question banks
9. If the exam is being cloned for accessibility reasons, excuse the student from the main exam (this will hide the main exam from the student). If the exam is being cloned for students who did not consent to ProctorU, skip this step
10. Triple check that the quiz is only assigned to the required students

If a student needs to sit an exam on campus:

1. Clone the exam following the instructions above and rename it to ‘<exam name> – On Campus’
2. Assign the exam to the correct students

The Accessibility Consultant will consult with the student and the Subject Coordinator to determine the best way to split the exam. To create the split exam:  

1. Import the exam twice using the steps above
2. Rename the two exams as ‘– Exam Provision A’ and ‘– Exam Provision B’ for split exams
3. From Exam Provision A, delete the questions that will not be included
4. From Exam Provision B, delete the question that will not be included
5. Assign to the student, with the times for each split. Check that the marks for both Part A and Part B match the main exam

If the student will be using Guardian Browser, configure both exams with ProctorU using our guide to Enable AI proctoring for a Canvas quiz.

You may be asked to clone and configure an exam with ProctorU so a student can use their assistive technologies with Guardian Browser.

1. Clone the exam following the instructions above and rename it to ‘<exam name> – Exam Provision’
2. Assign the exam to the correct students
3. Follow our guide to Enable AI proctoring for a Canvas quiz
4. Contact the Exams team immediately so they can work with ProctorU to apply customised security settings

You must not set up, clone or make any changes to your AI-invigilated exams after the content deadline. Exam content deadlines can be found on the LLE Exams Hub.

If you need to set up, clone or make changes to an AI-invigilated exam after these dates, please inform exams@uts.edu.au.