Exam Laptops

Exam Laptops

Exam Laptops


This knowledge article is for any member of staff involved administering the exam laptops during any exam season (Exams Officer, HLTA in charge of Invigilators). It will explain the process and requirement in setup prior to an exam, during the exam and retrieving student work & printing it after the exam has finished.  The exam laptops are used by students that have been assessed and are allowed to use a word processing device to type their answers to the exam questions rather than handwriting the answers.

1. Before Exam Season starts ( at least 2 weeks)

Create a List of students using Laptops

A list of all students (First Name and Surname) will need to be given to the ICT Department so that an individual student can be assigned an Exam account login name and password.  This list can be viewed in  from your "Exam Files(F:)" Drive
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2. On the Day/Prior to the Exam

Student Logins

The students exam account login name and password needs to be printed and given to the student to login to the exam laptop

ExamWritePad Software

Exam Write Pad will launch and fill the screen when the student logs in

Studentswill need to select Start New Exam.  


Students will complete the boxes below from the information provided on the front of their exam paper.  This will then be added as a Header to each page of their work.



Once into the document please ask students to Save the work.  This should default to their This Pc > Z:\ drive (dms-v-fs01) 

Saving work

File > Save
This name of the file wll be automatically generated as per the Header e.g. Centre Number | candidate number | student-name | paper.  The file will auto-save throughout the exam.


3. End of the Exam


Exporting to Word - ESSENTIAL

Before exiting Student MUST export to Word by selecting File > Export to DOCX
This is essential for Invigilators to be able to open and print the file in Word



Exiting Exam Write Pad

ONLY DO THIS ONCE STAFF ARE HAPPY THEY HAVE THE FILE TO PRINT IN THE F:\DRIVE

File > Exit 

This will close Exam Write Pad and log them off the pc




4. After the Exam

Accessing the Student Work/Files to print and backup

You will be able to see the files in your "Exam Files(F:)" Drive for each student. Find the files in their exam account folder, open and print to the Follow Me Printer


IMPORTANT: Files must be moved/cut from this folder once it has been printed and moved to the “Backups” folder also found in the Exam Files(F:) drive. Students will be using this exam account for all exams and must not be able to see the current files in a different/future exam.




Senso - Device Monitoring Software (optional)

Launching Senso

You can access Senso from the School Website Useful Links > Staff  (https://www.denemagna.co.uk/page/?title=Quicklinks&pid=297) or go to https://ne-3.senso.cloud/ 
Login with your Google Account.






You will see "Exams" group on the left hand side. By default you will see the List View

Click the green exam laptop name to view the screen. 



Or select Thumbnail view to view the tiled screens






ICT Team Use Only


Staff administering the laptops need to be added to the AD Security Group " Exams File Access" in order to get a mapped drive to the Exam account folders.  This enables access to print the student work. Pete Adams, Mary Pope and Fay Kibble currently have access to the Exam Files (F:) drive






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