TLC Testing - Professors

As per our submission deadlines, you must submit exam information in RegisterBlast at least 72 hours before the testing window begins.

If your exam content isn't ready at submission time, giving the exam in iLearn is a workaround. You must still submit the exam information and exam password at least 72 hours before the testing window begins. However, you can alter the content of the iLearn exam anytime before 7am on the first day of the exam window. Be sure not to change the password, or your students will not be able to access your exam.

Giving iLearn exams in TLC Testing is extremely secure. You create the exam in iLearn and create one password for that exam. You submit the password when you submit the exam information in RegisterBlast. Since no one but you and TLC Testing/Library professional employees should have the password, students cannot take the iLearn exam outside of TLC Testing. Your password is not shared with your students or our student workers. Your students then stand in a designated spot where they cannot see the computer screen or keyboard while we type in the password for your exam.

You must set the iLearn exam as available all day (beginning at 7 a.m.) for every day students are allowed to take it in TLC Testing.  Do not restrict the exam availability in iLearn to a specific time because the TLC does not facilitate testing at specific times. If you have students with extended time accommodations, be sure to extend the time in iLearn as appropriate.

The TLC only uses Respondus LockDown Browser if you specifically request it in your exam instructions submitted through RegisterBlast.  You also must require LockDown Browser within the iLearn exam settings. Do not require Respondus Monitor, which is the webcam component, for students testing in the TLC. Our testing stations do not have webcams, so students cannot take the exam in the TLC if you require Respondus Monitor.

If students cannot access or finish iLearn exams because you changed the password after submitting it in RegisterBlast, you restricted access in iLearn including specific times, you required Respondus Monitor webcam in iLearn, or you did not properly extend the iLearn time for accommodations:

• We email you an irregularity report by the end of the day; duration between the incident and the emailed report depends on our testing traffic that day
• We tell the student to contact you about the issue; the student may inform you before we send the irregularity report
• If you still want the student to test in the TLC, please fix the issue as soon as possible. The student will need to schedule again 24+ hours in advance. Email tlc@tntech.edu if that means the testing window in RegisterBlast needs to be extended. If you want the student to test sooner, you will need to find another testing venue.

Note: It is extremely disruptive to our procedures when students cannot properly access their iLearn exams.  Therefore, if your iLearn restrictions repeatedly prevent your students from accessing their iLearn exams, you will no longer be able to use the TLC for iLearn testing.