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.
Allow the session owner to view the audit log of the session
Allow the owner through the Manage interface to view all activity for the session, including reason for change or delete. Optionally, provide a way to re-instate a ...
Under consideration
Button for owner/co-owner that emails all examinees of in-progress session their unique URLs
So that all examinees (with access to functional email) can get their browser page prefilled by https://exam.tools/portal/applicant/sessioncallsign/####, less time ...
Under consideration
Add date range parameter to HamStudy session search
My VE team typically only does 4 sessions per year. It would be great if the search page can accept a range of days, instead of only outputting 60 days' results ...
Under consideration
Ability to add the session to the calendar on your device from session list in ET
As a session manager, I would like the ability to click a icon in the session list view and save the session as an event on my calendar. This would be helpful for ...
Under consideration
embed figures within printed exams
Currently printed exams do not include the relevant figures but instead require use of a separate document containing the figures. It would be more useful to embed ...
Planned
Change Laurel Form 605 to use X instead of check mark
The instructions on the Laurel 605 form say to use X instead of check mark. Some people may get hung-up on this minor deviation. Would it be possible to change the ...
Under consideration
GradeCam score incomplete exam
Usually the candidates have not left the room prior to grading an exam. In this case the VE team can tell them they forgot to answer a question and they can sit back ...
Under consideration
Session Search
On the session list page, add the ability to filter sessions based on other attributes, such as Title, VEC, Session Identifier, etc. Make sure there is a negate ...
Under consideration
(Co)Owner signature on Final Forms
1. To help clarify the point that "Finalize Session" means you need to be certain the paperwork is correct and that you have audited, include signature workflow on ...
Under consideration
API / RSS feed for session listing
An API or RSS-style feed for the session list from ham.study/sessions that honors filters for embedding into 3rd party app/website.
Under consideration
during registration ask if applicant is under 13, and give that answer to the session owner
During registration, add a question that asks if the applicant is under 13, and provide that answer to the session manager so they can collect privacy forms separate ...
Under consideration
POST request when someone registers
Is it possible that when a candidate signs up for a session, a POST request is generated to a certain url picked by the team lead.
Under consideration
If examinee loses connection, play red alert sound to their assigned VEs
Under consideration
Filtering on Session List screen
It would be useful to have the ability to filter the Session List screen on selected criteria. For example, I have a number on my screen that are sessions I'm ...
Under consideration
1-Click option to send Email w/ session login info on management screen
single-clicking and getting the link to manually Email them is a nice touch, but it can go one step further to give each testee the info they need just one click ...
Under consideration
Examinee followup URL
Could each examinee be given a unique URL to bookmark at the end of their exam, final page they see before closing browser tab, to check back at that URL a certain ...
Under consideration
Unique identifier on CSCE's
Add a unique identifier (perhaps the PIN) to the CSCE (perhaps also the 605) to attribute the document with the specific applicant. This will help to validate when ...
Not planned
Applicant Private Information Protection
After a session is finalized only Owner and Co-Owners have access to applicants personal info.
Not planned
Add session type (remote or in-person) to JSON output
Add sessionType: key to the JSON output. Possible values would be in-person or remote.
Under consideration
Add a comment field to the Applicant's display line, so we can put notes for VEs in it.
We could put what room the Applicant is in, or a note to be sure and check the ID, or that he has a pending name change or call sign change. These are things we're ...
Under consideration
Allow the creation of groups of VEs to pre-populate new sessions
If Owners could create standing groups of VEs who are in the system to use as a template for new sessions -- like "Tuesday night group" and "Saturday afternoon ...
Under consideration
Make the "ExamTools Sandbox" more clear that it's Sandbox
When I type "exam tools" into my browser it sometimes forwards me to the Sandbox site rather than the prod. site. It may prove to be beneficial to add a ...
Under consideration
Add applicant name to Subject line in New Applicant email notification to session manager
The notices look nearly identical in my inbox. The date of the session is the only difference. Having the name in Subject line would same me time and a click into ...
Planned
Require view of 605 and CSCE by applicant before they sign?
In an effort to encourage both applicants and VEs to verify the correct information on these forms, would it be helpful to prevent signature(green button) activation ...
Under consideration
Let applicants sign for Systematic callsigns on 605
605 ask that applicants initial when they ask to change callsign.
Under consideration
Automatically add credit for expired licenses when the FRN matches
If a candidate's FRN lookup shows an expired General class or higher license, automatically set the General class credit for them.
Planned
Add more options for status of applicant
Currently, we have three statuses to choose from: "Registered", "Seen" and "Ready to sign". Would like to see a couple of new statuses: "Paid/Waived" and "Ready to ...
Under consideration
35 & 50 blank space paper for writing answer letters as a supplement for the bubble sheet
to accommodate those with disabilities.
Under consideration
Put the "register" link on the VE dashboard
Put the register link on the VE dashboard of a session (maybe next to the session link?) so that session owners can bypass registration limits.
Under consideration
Add an option to download all session documents.
GLAARG VEC would like to get all docs, including the W5YI and Session Manifest. Since we provide a Google Drive folder for Session Owners to deliver their docs, we're ...
Under consideration
Session statistics
Have statistics for a session including: total number of candidates, number of elements administered, pass rates, avg scores, new technicians, new generals, new extras
Planned
Add ET session count to the User Profile page
Maybe a separate total for Tier 1 & tier 2 sessions, as well as VEC specific totals.
Not really necessary, but would be nice,
Planned
Allow session managers to store free text visible only to VEs on manifest
eg. videoconference login info
Empty space to put the text here:
Under consideration
Candidate upload a pending CSCE
Provide a mechanism for a candidate with a pending CSCE to upload it as part of registration.
Under consideration
Be able to mark self (VE) as Unavailable for one or more sessions
Be able to (ideally) select multiple sessions we have been added to as VEs and mark our selves as being unavailable to join them. This communicates to the ...
Under consideration
automatic cancellation if registration not approved by deadline
An optional session setting that informs the candidate that their registration will be cancelled if they are not approved for a session by a deadline (e.g. a specific ...
Under consideration
Generate EBF File Names that Contain only numbers.
Do not use a period (.) or dash (-) in the file name because it is not compatible with EBF file management.
Ideally, GLAARG would like the file name to be the ...
Under consideration
Add the BQQ data on the immediately prior and immediately after screen
It is extremely easy for VEs to miss the BQQ. It should be listed along with other 605 data, such as name, address, call sign, FRN immediately before the exam and ...
Under consideration
Click or beep when examinee answers a question (mouse or keyboard)
Give some audio indicator that an examinee has answered a question. When giving remote exams it is important for VEs to ensure that the examinees audio is operating ...
Not planned
Keep “Old Manifest” to allow easily cut and paste of applicants and VEs out of ET into a spreadsheet
I use the Old Manifest to populate my spreadsheets for my exams. I add all the VEs who have RSVPed to ET. Then go to the Old Manifest and copy/paste the VEs into a ...
Under consideration
Remove the check mark from the NO NEW LICENSE OR UPGRADE WAS EARNED check box on 605.
Up until the session has been started, the 605 should not have check mark next to NO NEW LICENSE OR UPGRADE WAS EARNED. Doing this would allow teams to pee-register ...
Under consideration
GradeCam scoring screen larger font for name of candidates
I would like to request and I am hoping this is very easy to do, but I would like the name of the candidate to be larger font above the PASS / FAIL, also the score if ...
Under consideration
Ve name sorting on 605 & vs session list
The order in which the 3 VEs are assigned to an applicant,
is the order in which they appear on the 605 & CSCE from top to bottom.
Which is just fine.
However, ...
Under consideration
Add APPLICANT SIGNED to the SIGNED status block, so VEs can see that the Applicant SIGNED.
In an in-person session, it might be difficult for all the VEs to know that the Applicant hasn't signed yet - so a VE getting ready to sign could wait until he sees ...
Under consideration
When Listing Exam Sessions Add "All" Button
Currently one must select In-Person or Remote. Would like to see "All" at once
Under consideration
Add a way for the Session Owner to add info visible to the VEs.
We often have a information we provide to VEs who are connected to Exam.Tools but either "didn't get the memo" or lost it. So we end up with a flurry of Discord ...
Under consideration
Prompt at time of session finalization to send any/all unsent CSCEs?
Under consideration
Move the light/dark mode & green cookie bar "I Understand" buttons to the left side
Since Zoom defaults to blocking the right side of the shared maximized browser window. Or if other videoconferencing software blocks other areas of the screen, IDK ...
Under consideration
Allow examinees to store signatures in advance like VEs can
Not sure what the consensus from VECs would be on this, but it would be legal to allow examinees to use what they filled in their own stored signature boxes [tier 3 ...
Under consideration