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Digiexam access instructions are issued by the LSE Exams team. Log into Digiexam using your LSE credentials.
Step 1: Navigate to the
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Exam Summary
The LSE Exams teamwill end the exam, at this point it passes into the ‘Graded’ tab of the Digiexam web interface.
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PSS selects the relevant exam from the list by clicking on the blue link. Note: check the Exam ID corresponds to the correct sitting of the exam.
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The next page displays a summary of the exam summary with automatic grading rules applied. At this point, the student identities have not been anonymised.
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Store the downloaded PDF files in a secure and easily accessible location. The filenames include LSE candidate numbers (referred to as Student Code ‘student code’ by Digiexam), which will help maintain anonymity and make it easy to locate specific student scripts during later stages.
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Downloads Grades Spreadsheet
Download the grades spreadsheet to keep a record of students, their marks with automatic grading, and their Digiexam anonymised identifiers. This spreadsheet can also be used by PSS when releasing grades to students, as it allows them to match the anonymised identifier to the corresponding LSE student candidate number.
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Click ‘Download grades spreadsheet’
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In the downloaded spreadsheet, Under the First Name column , includes each student’s name is accompanied by their assigned identifierDigiexam anonymous identifier. The Student Code column includes each student’s LSE Candidate Number.
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This grading spreadsheet reveals student identities. Ensure it is stored securely and access is restricted to authorised personnel only. It should not be shared with the First Marker. |
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Instead of downloading new files for hybrid scripts, PSS can simply use the first batch of exam scripts already downloaded. These files already have the LSE candidate number appended to their filenames, making it easy to identify and share individual scripts with the First Marker.  Once outside Digiexam, these hybrid scripts can be treated as paper exams and follow local offline marking process. |
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Using the previously downloaded grading spreadsheet, PSS can identify students with LON status by locating their assigned anonymised Digiexam identifier (e.g., Student 1, Student 2). The grading spreadsheet lists each student's name alongside their identifier, allowing you to cross-reference and determine which students have an LON. Using the Digiexam anonymised anonymous identifier for students with LON status ensures that anonymity is preserved throughout the process. If required for marking, these identifiers may be shared with the marker to facilitate the grading of students with LON.  Students with LONs who have completed hybrid scripts can be marked either online using the Digiexam identifier or offline using LSE candidate number. |
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The exam must be shared with the First Marker only after Digiexam’s anonymisation setting has been turned on. |
Step 1: Ensure anonymisation is turned on
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If you have already turned anonymity on during the previous step, the “Anonymise exam” “Anonymise exam” button will appear as “Remove anonymisation” and does not need to be pressed again. |
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First Marker Process
Digiexam Access
The First Marker is given the ‘Teacher’ role within the Digiexam environment. Digiexam access instructions are issued by the LSE Exams team. Log into Digiexam using your LSE credentials.
Step 1: Navigate to the Exam Summary
Once correctly shared by PSS, the exam will pass into the ‘Graded’ tab of the Digiexam web interface.
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Step 2: Download Anonymised Grade Spreadsheet v1
In the ‘Graded’ tab, the First Marker selects the relevant exam from the list by clicking on the blue link. Note: check the Exam ID corresponds to the correct sitting of the exam.
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The next page displays a summary of the exam summary with automatic grading rules applied. The student identities will be anonymised and accompanied with their Digiexam identifiers: ‘Student 1' 'Student 2’ etc.
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Click the down arrow next to ‘Download grades spreadsheet’ and select the option: “Indicate unanswered questions with “-”
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Click ‘Download grades spreadsheet’. This will download an anonymised grade spreadsheet with automatic ‘right minus wrong’ grading rules applied. Save the file as ‘Anonymised Grade spreadsheet v1’. Note: students Students in this spreadsheet are referred to using Digiexam’s anonymous identifiers : 'Student 1', 'Student 2' etc. and not LSE candidate number.
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‘Anonymised Grade spreadsheet v1’ acts as a reference point when troubleshooting any issues during subsequent marking steps. We recommend the First Marker makes a copy of this spreadsheet and saves it in a secure location for later reference. |
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3: Review Answers to Questions with One Correct Answer
First Marker uses conditional formatting to highlight scores of '0' in questions with one correct answer in ‘Grade spreadsheet v1’.
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First Marker returnsto the Digiexam exam summary screen and clicks option ‘Continue grading’.
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In the grading page, First Marker identifies questions with one correct answer by selecting the relevant student in the right panel of the Digiexam interface.
The student’s response loads in the left panel of the screen, Digiexam indicates whether answers provided by the student were correct or incorrect.
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First Marker refers to the student’s student answer and either updates the ‘Points’ field from ‘0' to ‘2’ if the student has selected one correct AND one incorrect answer or leaves the score at '0’ if the scoring rule has been correctly applied. The captures below show the two possible outcomes.
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4: Saving Overwritten Marks on Digiexam
Once the First Marker has finished overwriting marks for a student or group of students, please ensure that the "Save and close" button located in the top panel of the grading page in Digiexam is clicked to confirm and save the changes. Note: this will close the grading view and return to the exam summary page.
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Please ensure It is essential you manually click the "Save and close" button in the top panel of the grading page in Digiexam, even if the automatic save notification appears. If work is not manually saved, it will automatically be lost when PSS removes anonymisation. |
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5: Download Anonymised Grade Spreadsheet v2
First Marker follows instructions in Step 1 2 to download the anonymised grade spreadsheet again, this time it contains any overwritten marks to questions with one correct answer. Click ‘Download grades spreadsheet’ and save as ‘Anonymised Grade spreadsheet v2’
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6: Update
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Marks to Questions with Three Correct Answers
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The marks for questions with three correct answers only need to corrected on the grades spreadsheet. The marking to these questions is not updated on Digiexam. |
First Marker updates all answers marks to questions with 3 correct answers on the v2 grades spreadsheet from '1.33333333333333' or '2.66666666666667' to '1' or '2' respectively, this can be done using find and replace on Excel. The spreadsheet now contains all the correct marks.
When using find and replace, ensure you copy the exact number directly from the cell This ensures the replacement is accurate, as Excel will only replace the number if it matches exactly, including all decimals.
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Note that the marking to questions with three correct answers is not updated on Digiexam.
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Step 7: Updating Final Grades
First Marker will need to calculate the final grade and percentage mark on the spreadsheet. Add a new columns to the v2 grading spreadsheet called "New Final Grade" and “Percentage”.
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If required, a Moderator can review a sample of exams (referring to ‘Student 1' ‘Student 2' etc.) on Digiexam. Note: scoring on Digiexam is not going to be correct for questions with 3 correct answers. However, a key can be used to let the moderator know what '1.3' and '2.6' refer to. The Moderator can also access the updated marks of all students on the 'Anonymous grade spreadsheet v2’. If no issues are found, marking is complete. If any issues are identified, the moderator will notify the First Marker who will review the relevant exams within Digiexam. If marks need adjustment, the moderator will compile a list of affected students and their corrected scores. The First Marker will need to update affected marks in 'Anonymous grade spreadsheet v2’. |
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From Step 4 5 'Download Anonymised Grade Spreadsheet v2' onwards, marks in the offline grading spreadsheet will diverge from what is displayed in Digiexam. It is therefore important not to refer to the automatic grading displayed in Digiexam as the basis of grade release. |
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‘Anonymised Grade Spreadsheet
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v2’
PSS receives the 'Anonymised Grade Spreadsheet v2' containing from the First Marker, that contains the updated final grade and percentage mark. A VLOOKUP function can be used to cross-reference this data with the LSE candidate numbers from the ‘IR203 All Candidate Details' spreadsheet downloaded during ‘PSS downloads grades spreadsheet’. The two images below demonstrate the two sets of data:
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Note the The Digiexam anonymous identifier data in column A of ‘IR203 All Candidate Details’ needs to be cleaned up before the VLOOKUP can work properlybe used. |
PSS match each student with the appropriate marks per question, final grade and email address. The marking is now ready to be reconciled with any offline or paper marking and released to students.
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