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.
Text-to-speech playback of all questions & answer sets for visually-impaired
(like Audio CAPTCHA)
If you don't have an easier way that also costs $0, I can record the Apple text-to-speech engine reciting the questions & answer sets in order ...
Not planned
Exam Time
As a scheduler, I would like to add the applicant exam time to the session so that an applicant can see their time instead of the entire time. I.e. we are testing ...
Under consideration
Change the colour of the "close" button for the 605/CSCE screen
When walking the candidate through the signing part of the exam, and showing them the 605/CSCE it'd be helpful to have the "CLOSE" button be a colour that the VE can ...
Under consideration
Session Manager automatically notified when refered VE has completely registered in ExamTools.
Suggestions for when notices could be send: 1) Notify the person (most likely a team lead) who referred the VE to sign up for an ExamTools account once the process is ...
Under consideration
Linking your Hamstudy account when signing up for a exam
This is a total shot in the dark idea, but it would be neat when you signup for a test, you can link your hamstudy account, and it will allow only the team lead to ...
Under consideration
E-sign for VEs on VE registration
Currently ET produces a list of VE's assigned to the session. Add feature where they can sign and then the list can be used as the "officially participated" VE ...
Under consideration
Change the date format in AppList to be something easy to sort.
The sign-up date/time appears is a text string. If it had a comma after the month and day, I could grab the month-day-year and use datevalue to convert it to ...
Under consideration
spanish language translation of ExamTools
A Spanish language translation of ExamTools (the tool, not the exams)
Planned
Add a trigger for VE to finalize exam
multiple applicants have clicked the finish and then asked to start the next exam after signing. ie tech to general.
Planned
Display browser / OS info for each candidate.
While managing a session, it'd be good to track what each testee is using to complete their exam. Helpful for debugging / problem solving/detection/reporting etc.
Under consideration
Invalidating an exam should let you scan it again, or add delete option.
Problem: We scanned a paper exam element marked as G instead of T, giving a failing grade. We fixed the G to a T and invalidated the exam. However, we could not scan ...
Under consideration
Provide ULS link for applicant with existing call sign.
Richard say: "...have that email include a link to their ULS record if they provided a callsign which would also be pretty easy". I would actually perhaps prefer this ...
Planned
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Under consideration
Make all session from one team hidden on HamStudy in public search by default
Make all session from one team hidden on HamStudy in public search by default. Add a check box within the team record to not list all sessions in the public search, ...
Under consideration
No credentials found when adding VE to session
In production and in the development sandbox, if you add a VE to your session and the VE's credentials have expired, you get the error message "No xxxxx credentials ...
Under consideration
Sort Team List
Have the ability to sort/arrange the Team List order? I hate when an team invites me and it pushes one of my teams down the list. Maybe sort by managed teams first. ...
Under consideration
Unselect an answer
If a test-taker picked a test answer, then decided they'd like to think about it, can they un-select their answer by clicking it again, lighting up the orange button ...
Under consideration
Provide alt text for icon images
Images on the VE screen are not necessarily descriptive of their status. Please add hover text for the icons so VEs can see what the icon is trying to describe, and ...
Under consideration
Add additional export fields to the current Laurel export
Currently does not export credits for Pre-'87 Tech or other credits
Under consideration
High Contrast Theme
Under consideration
Add "Connected, PIN" to the Sort Order
Show everyone who is currently taking an exam at the top of the sort, and then order by PIN. This makes it easier for the VEs to find their Applicant once their ...
Under consideration
Handle cases where a VE who has signed is then unassigned from a candidate
If a VE signs and is then unassigned, their signature remains, and if they are added again it is as though nothing had happened: their signature shows on the forms. ...
Under consideration
Change pin email message
In both the confirmation screen of the pin, and the email sent out with the pin, it saids stuff that doesn’t apply with the VEC I do testing with. This had lead to a ...
Under consideration
Complete inputting password with enter button for approve grading and sign
Allow a person to enter password and press the enter key to approve grading or sign instead of clicking the approve or sign buttons.
Under consideration
Stop Examinees from finishing registration after finalization of exam
Set cookie that registration button click queries whether session is finalized already before proceeding to next page" or make the registration pages keepalives
Under consideration
Make session roster format VEC-specific
Now that T2 is to the point of "one click" to download the final session forms, the (almost) last step to make this really seamless would be to format the session ...
Not planned
Ability to Search ExamTools for a Registered Candidate
Despite the details I place in the session postings, I still receive emails like "I just registered. Now what do I do?" The answer depends on several things. So I ...
Planned
Registration autocorrects to first-cap names (without existing license)
Or would this be too tricky, because of parts of names that aren't universally first capitalized, like van der da etc...
Seeing a bad number of registrations with ...
Not planned
Allow verified VEC Org Members to bid pool these feature requests
Then if it seems worth the pooled amount of bids to develop/implement a requested feature, the pool can be claimed when done.
Under consideration
Advise examinees to use PO Box or non-residential address at registration
if they don't want their residential address in ULS... FOREVER!
Under consideration
Universal waiting list for examinees
Make a waiting list that all examinees can sign up for, and all VECs & their VEs can view & invite examinees to join their respective sessions. Examinees should be ...
Under consideration
If an examinee specifies Technician, require a call sign
ExamTools generates an MD record if the examinee specifies a license class (Technician) but doesn't include a call sign. The EBF record generated is MD, with no call ...
Not planned
Ability to see if a VE has created an account.
I would like to suggest a read only version for us regular (non admin) folk to be able to see if our people that we request to sign up and fill out the form actually ...
Under consideration
VEC-wide VE manifest supertemplate
Each VEC can set a template for all sessions to default to certain people as co-owner. eg. GLAARG sessions would autoset Naomi as co-owner (on every session that she ...
Under consideration
Applicant Export - include addresses
Would like the applicant export spreadsheet to include their street address so we can print that out for in-person sessions. We check in the applicants at the door, ...
Under consideration
Mark candidates who answer yes to the BQQ
It would be great to have a indicator somewhere, (maybe when the candidate say passes the test, or on the VE view) saying hey just to confirm, about answering yes on ...
Under consideration
Check box to disable new registrations once a session is started
Recently I have had situations where new registrations are sneaking into a session that has already been started. I would like to see a check box that disables new ...
Under consideration
Copy FCC data to examtools
There is a button that corrects the FCC database. Every session since July I have had one applicant that their does not agree with the FCC. We need a button to ...
Under consideration
Add team lead to the VEC export docs
Now that we use Teams, the session manager/team lead doesn't appear on the paperwork. Only the team identifier does. The lead shows up as a VE on the VE list. Add ...
Under consideration
Provide ability to delete a team
Specifically I created a team in alpha just for the experience, and it is now in production. Also this would allow for teams that disband for any reason.
Under consideration
Allow international formatted address for candidates
Part 97 no longer requires a USPS deliverable mailing address. 97.23 was changed last July. The USPS-deliver requirement was dropped and moved to a deliverable email ...
Under consideration
Provide a faster way to add multiple VEs with the same role/permissions
As an example, `NT3ST-c` will set them as co-owner, `NT3ST-a` will set them as VE Admin. If nothing's appended, the default role will be used.
Under consideration
Ability to group VEs into teams
Add ability to group VEs into teams or position by color or some other means. Would work for both in-person and remote. This would not prevent VEs from hoping around ...
Under consideration
Make CSCE cross-outs more obviously crossed-out.
To make the CSCE less prone to mis-interpretation by another VE team, I'm suggesting making the cross-outs thicker to more fully obscure the crossed-out word. Also I ...
Under consideration
Add ability to export out list of VEs who are on the VE List
Would like to export the VE list in the bottom part of the "old" manifest. I use it for my session spreadsheet and also at the end of the session to double check ...
Under consideration
Indicator next to FRN that examinee clicked Request FRN on register#/frn to use the FCC API
Would this show VEs that they don't really need to look those specific examinees up in CORES to make sure it's a valid FRN? Can't see if that can be exploited without ...
Not planned
Add the ability to edit the Exam Location City/State on the form 605
Our policy is to submit examination location to the FCC based on where the applicant(s) are physically located, regardless of the location of the VEs. As it stands ...
Under consideration
Webhook API for VECs
Allow VECs to register a webhook address which will automatically receive notifications (and they can then pull documents via another API request) when a session is ...
Under consideration
Additional Timezone selection.
Adding in some core time zones or even just UTC as calculating to +10UTC especially in a rush can be tricky at times.
Under consideration