Exam Office exam time monitoring¶
This page gives an overview of the exam time monitoring application, describing its current status, where and how it's developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining it.
Service Description¶
The exam time monitoring tool enables Exam Office to check time spent on exams against any extra allowance given due to accessibilities.
Service Status¶
The exam time monitoring is currently live.
Contact¶
Technical queries and support should be directed to <role email> and will be picked up
by a member of the team working on the service. To ensure that you receive a response, always
direct requests to <role email> rather than reaching out to team members directly.
Issues discovered in the service or new feature requests should be opened as GitLab issues in the application repository.
Environments¶
The exam time monitoring is a VBA app and currently deployed to run on Exam Office staff's PCs.
Source code¶
The source code for the exam time monitoring is spread over the following repositories:
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| Exam time monitoring | The source code for exam time monitoring application |
Technologies used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies the Exam Time Monitoring is built on.
| Category | Language | Framework(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Client App | VBA |
Operational documentation¶
The following gives an overview of how the exam time monitoring app is deployed and maintained.
How and where the exam time monitoring is deployed¶
The app is an Excel file with macro code. The deployed file is uploaded to shared repository for users to download and run locally.
Deploying a new release¶
The new release is uploaded to the shared repository and notice users to download and discard existing version.
Monitoring¶
N/A
Debugging¶
N/A
Service Management and tech lead¶
The service owner for the Exam Time Monitoring is <service owner name and Lookup link>.
The service manager for the Exam Time Monitoring is <service manager name and Lookup link>.
The tech lead for the Exam Time Monitoring is <tech lead name and Lookup link>.
The following engineers have operational experience with the Exam Time Monitoring and are able to respond to support requests or incidents: