UMRA & Controlled Assessment

UMRA & Controlled Assessment


Traditionally, schools and colleges use Tools4ever Identity Management Suite is UMRA Forms, a secure interface to quickly and accurately manage the life cycle of a user. However, when a school links Active Directory to their student information system, all student account changes are automated, with no need for manual intervention. This negates the requirement for UMRA Forms.

However, a couple of months ago we were approached by a school with an interesting problem regarding controlled assessment. The school’s IT Manager creates exam accounts for pupils, with home directories shared in the normal way to each user. In the home directory he creates a series of "Exam" folders, which the pupil should only access during a Controlled Assessment session. As a boarding school, the pupil may need to use their exam account outside of a controlled assessment period, so enabling and disabling the account as required is not a suitable solution.

What the IT Manager really required, was a way to control NTFS permissions on the exam folders within the home directory for each account. So, Tools4ever built a simple interface, delegated to teaching staff, that switches access to the exam folders on and off at the click of a button.

Now he has shifted the tedious task of controlling exam accounts back to teaching staff. More importantly UMRA is logging every action to keep the auditors happy.

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