Our customers made these suggestions for improving ExamTools.org. Suggestions for improving ExamTools.org.
These should not be bug reports, but rather features that you would like to see in ExamTools.org. Please vote for the features that you find most useful as we will use that to help prioritize improvements.
Provide a way for a CVE to move an examinee to a future session, PIN and all.
We have examinees who fail to complete an exam, for reasons entirely out of their control, like their Internet fails, or their neighbor sucks all the bits out of ...
Planned
Prevent applicants from signing up for multiple exam sessions at the same time
Some examinees are hedging their bets by signing up for multiple remote sessions, often several in the same week. When they do that with the ones that our CVE sets ...
Under consideration
Indication of number of elements Applicant plans to take.
I would like to see something in the current registration form they could check to show which elements they intend to take. i.e. check boxes for 2 , 3 ,4 It would ...
Planned
In app calculator
Add a calculator that's accessible inside the app. This will be particularly useful for tablets that are locked in kiosk mode.
Under consideration
Session RSVP for VEs - Self add and remove in ExamTools
Allow VEs to view sessions scheduled for VEC and select the sessions they plan to work. Session managers would have an option to share session with all VEs for a VEC ...
Planned
Add option to email results with CSCE
A lot of our examinees ask to know which questions they missed. Given that we're not protecting an answer sheet, there's little reason not to show them. I realize ...
Under consideration
Display Time in UTC as well as the creator's or viewer's local time.
Add GMT (UTC) to the date and time displayed next to the sessions. We are giving exams across multiple time zones and this has been confusing to the Applicants and ...
Planned
Option to print pre-filled GradeCam answer sheets
Requesting the ability to print out GradeCam answer sheets that are prefilled with the applicant Pins and full names. For in-person paper exams, this would greatly ...
Planned
Add waitlisting
Besides the current setting to limit registrations, add another to allow waitlisting, because the registration is incomplete until the candidate has paid their fee ...
Under consideration
randomize order of answers for each question
(I believe this was discussed somewhere previously). Currently the selection of questions are randomize but the specific questions' answers are always in the same ...
Planned
Provide a page that displays a blank form 605 for testing browsers
ExamTools should provide a test page that displays a blank form 605 (or other PDF content) for testing browsers. Ideally, this should not require any credentials or ...
Under consideration
Session rating system
add a optional 1-5 star rating for their testing experience. And show the rating on the session listings of the VE.
Under consideration
Ability to skip a test
If a person with a expired license take a technician they get credit for tests already taken i.e. an expired advanced get credit for a general. currently there is ...
Planned
Session Templates
Allow a user to save "template" sessions, including VE assignments and permissions, to be selected from a user-level list.
Under consideration
Receive email notification a VE has been added to a new session
If a VE is added to a new session, email the VE to let them know (perhaps a once-per-day roundup). Coupled with the ability to mark ourselves unavailable, this could ...
Under consideration
Import list of VEs assigned to a session by call sign from CSV
The ability to import VEs and their permissions for a given session from a CSV file. Key could potentially be call sign, ve number, or user name.
Possible use ...
Planned
Move the "CLOSE" button to the left or center bottom of the screen
It seems that 90% of the time the "CLOSE" button on the REVIEW items is directly under the ZOOM screen. By either moving it to the center of left bottom would help here.
Under consideration
Lower the eviction permission down to a regular VE
There are many times when a testing team needs to evict a candidate from a testing room, e.g. when the number of administering VEs drop below 3, when Zoom drops the ...
Under consideration
add button
when you're a VE Admin in addition to the assign a VE add an assign to me button if you're assigning yourself to speed up the process
Under consideration
List the VECs to which a VE has been approved under 'Profile'
This would help confirm to the VE that they have been linked on ET to the VEC, without manual verification by the support staff
Under consideration
Ability to list just a course or class on HamStudy
The ARRL has a place to list and search for courses/classes. Create the ability to list just a course or class on HamStudy with the ability to search for a class ...
Under consideration
FRN must be an 'individual' and not a business
The FRN given during registration must be an 'individual' and not a business entity type. For example, I recently had a candidate who specified "Private Sector, Sole ...
Under consideration
beta: add alternate mechanisms to add VE signature
For example, allow dropping a signature image on the signature box
Under consideration
Ask if a candidate has expired license during registration
Ask if candidate has an expired license and provide input for details (original licensed year, previous class, previous call?) during registration flow.
Planned
geofenced registration constraint
Add a constraint to an exam session for a radius from the address of the session (or more fancy set of constraints:-) . Our VE team is trying to serve our ...
Under consideration
Allow selectable time zones on sessions page
On the sessions page, allow the user to show exams in the local time zone (or maybe a time zone selectable by a drop down).
Planned
Live Session Statistics
From a VE's perspective, it would be nice to see how the session is going.
The idea is to have a small bar, similar to the test progress bar.
Bar would include ...
Under consideration
Phone Number
Make a phone number a hard edit, that the form can not be completed without a phone number
Under consideration
Put appointment time on applicant list
We estimate the time we expect to get to an applicant and email them that. If we had it here we wouldn't have to maintain a separate list.
Under consideration
showed void applicant info on manifest and docs
The manifest does not show Voided applicants. The suggestion was made that the manifest should show voided applicant with a "V" under the column for the exam. ...
Under consideration
Add a "close registration" button
Create a "close registration" button that stops additional registrations from being allowed.
Under consideration
sort VEs by permission
Add the ability to sort / group VEs by permission granted (owner - co-owner - VE Admin - VE)
Under consideration
Turning off Authorize as Volunteer Examiner for some types of sessions
It can be nice to be able to flip off the option for Authorize as Volunteer Examiner for sessions that don't want to use it.
Under consideration
Checkboxes on user registration for paid and ID checked.
Adding a checkbox to mark that an applicant has paid would help everyone's flow, local and remote testing, and a checkbox to mark that their ID had been checked would ...
Under consideration
Ability to schedule unlimited recurring sessions
eg. Every Saturday, same time, same location or Every 1st Saturday, same time, same location. Calendar then displays the upcoming sessions as far forward as the ...
Not planned
Lock edits to name for pre-existing license
It would be nice that names can’t be edited unless you click a *edit* name button, that should stop auto fill for changing peoples names. Also would be nice for a ...
Planned
Changes to exam.tools web pages to better support kiosk mode on tablets
There should be a way to lock https://exam.tools and https://exam.tools/portal/applicant web pages to a specific callsign.
When locked to a specific callsign, ...
Under consideration
Change the Laurel CSCE to fully cross out unearned element name and number
Only the element names on the Laurel CSCE are crossed out and not the name and the element number. Some people may get hung up on the small deviation from the ...
Under consideration
Two factor authentication
As this generates signatures on legal documents implementing two factor authentication would be nice. Google authenticator at a minimum, but ideally Fido2/WebAuthn.
Planned
Move the Listing of Sessons to exam.tools/sessions
Move the list of Exam sessions to exam.tools/sessions and create a pointer from hamstudy.org to exam.tools for session listing. The listing on exam.tools would ...
Planned
Add "My Sessions" under the List Session: drop down
Add “My Sessions" under the List Session: drop down in the Sessions List. I am on many sessions belonging to others. As a session manager I would like to limit to ...
Under consideration
Pre-fill session fee amount based on selected VEC's currently published fees
VECs have standard fees, so why not pre-fill the fee in the session creation dialog when the VEC is selected, allowing one to overwrite it if they desire, but not ...
Under consideration
Allow VE to sign and skip being assigned, if they are logged into their own ET user account.
When doing in-person exam sessions on paper or with tablets, VEs are slowed down by the combined actions of the assign to me and then signing. The option to just ...
Under consideration
Detect/prevent identical registrations within 5 seconds of each other
Had one person who had identical regs appear on session, created at 18:49:22 & 18:49:26 GMT-0800. Any way to detect/prevent these?
Under consideration
Beta: Add whiteboard functionality for scratch paper
I would like to see a Whiteboard feature added to the exam screen to allow for the use of "scratch paper". This whiteboard could then be saved and transmitted with ...
Under consideration
Add export list of questions marked wrong during session
What was the most-missed question? To help in-person instructors improve their teaching, add ability for VE Team Leads to export a summary list of questions marked ...
Not planned
Import candidates into ET
Have the ability to import candidates in a CSV file. This is helpful for in-person exams where some candidates will take electronic exams and some will take paper exams.
Under consideration
Allow an applicant to take exams in any order
This could be at the discretion of the VE TL as each VEC has different policies re this. I don't know about others but Laurel does allow applicants to take the ...
Planned
Implement custom VEC fees based on applicant age or other attributes given at registration.
Per https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-board-establishes-program-to-cover-initial-fcc-license-fee-for-young-applicants there will soon be a $5 ARRL/VEC for under-18 ...
Under consideration
Request Chamorro Standard Time (CHST) +10
Request Chamorro Standard Time (CHST) +10 Time zone in the schedule exam section. We are in Guam and could use this
Planned