[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":540},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-\u002Fdocs\u002Fexam-day":3,"docs-nav":512},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":501,"extension":502,"meta":503,"navigation":504,"order":505,"path":506,"platform":507,"seo":508,"status":509,"stem":510,"__hash__":511},"docs\u002Fdocs\u002Fexam-day.md","Before exam day",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":488},"minimark",[9,13,17,22,62,66,69,94,97,107,111,126,144,147,186,208,212,310,315,322,328,350,354,371,374,411,418,423,431,435],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"before-exam-day",[14,15,16],"p",{},"The best exam morning is a boring one. Here is how to get there.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"the-day-before","The day before",[23,24,25,38,52],"ol",{},[26,27,28,32,33,37],"li",{},[29,30,31],"strong",{},"Install the app"," on the device you will use and open it once. On a Mac it walks you through permissions before anything else opens: ",[34,35,36],"em",{},"Every exam is recorded — your camera and your screen — so this computer has to allow both before anything else opens. It is checked every time Olympiads starts."," The last card is not a permission; it tells you what the app does to the computer while an exam runs. On a phone or tablet the asking happens at the readiness check instead.",[26,39,40,43,44,47,48,51],{},[29,41,42],{},"Sign in"," and open ",[34,45,46],{},"My exams",". Your exam is listed with the time its window opens, in your local time. On Android, ",[34,49,50],{},"Check my setup"," on the home screen runs the readiness check early.",[26,53,54,57,58,61],{},[29,55,56],{},"Find a quiet place"," with a table, a wall behind you if possible, a power socket and ",[29,59,60],{},"one screen",".",[18,63,65],{"id":64},"what-gets-recorded","What gets recorded",[14,67,68],{},"During a supervised exam the app records:",[70,71,72,78,88],"ul",{},[26,73,74,77],{},[29,75,76],{},"your camera"," — you, at the desk. Some exams ask for more than one camera position; a phone can fill one.",[26,79,80,83,84,87],{},[29,81,82],{},"your screen"," — the whole screen on a computer, ",[34,85,86],{},"Entire screen"," on Android, and the app's own screen on an iPad or iPhone.",[26,89,90,93],{},[29,91,92],{},"any extra camera"," you add, such as your phone.",[14,95,96],{},"Nothing records sound; the app never asks for the microphone. The recording is sent to Main Team in small pieces while you work. If your connection drops, the pieces wait on your device and are sent when it returns; you can keep answering.",[14,98,99,100,103,104],{},"Recording does not start when the paper opens. It starts at the readiness check, which the app lets you into thirty minutes before the exam window: ",[34,101,102],{},"Your cameras are set up thirty minutes before it does — nothing is recorded until then."," From then on: ",[34,105,106],{},"Recording starts here, before the rules, and runs until you hand in. It cannot be paused.",[18,108,110],{"id":109},"the-readiness-check","The readiness check",[14,112,113,114,117,118,121,122,125],{},"One screen, before every exam. It lists ",[29,115,116],{},"What is recorded"," — each source marked ",[34,119,120],{},"Required"," or ",[34,123,124],{},"Optional"," — with a live preview of each camera. Look at the pictures: a covered lens or a camera pointed at the ceiling is a healthy source to the app, and the preview is the only thing that shows it.",[14,127,128,129,132,133,136,137,140,141],{},"Each source settles into a state. If one does not, its card offers the ways out: ",[34,130,131],{},"Try again",", ",[34,134,135],{},"Use my phone instead"," for a camera (never for the screen), and ",[34,138,139],{},"Skip it"," for an optional source. A source that is already recording, or the last one left, cannot be skipped: ",[34,142,143],{},"At least one source is always recorded — this exam cannot be sat unrecorded.",[14,145,146],{},"The check also looks at the room around the app:",[70,148,149,159,168,174,180],{},[26,150,151,154,155,158],{},[29,152,153],{},"A second display"," stops it: ",[34,156,157],{},"Disconnect the second display to continue. This exam records one screen."," Unplug the monitor or projector and the check carries on.",[26,160,161,164,165],{},[29,162,163],{},"Disk space",", on a computer: ",[34,166,167],{},"This computer has less than 2 GB of free space. Free some space to continue; the recording is kept on this disk until it has uploaded.",[26,169,170,173],{},[29,171,172],{},"The upload path",", on a computer and on Android: a small test upload to our servers, so a network problem shows up here and not after the exam.",[26,175,176,179],{},[29,177,178],{},"The clock",", on Android: a device whose time is wrong cannot upload, and the app tells you to turn on automatic date and time.",[26,181,182,185],{},[29,183,184],{},"Virtual cameras, virtual machines and remote control",", on a computer: they are noticed and reported with the exam.",[14,187,188,189,192,193,121,196,199,200,203,204,207],{},"The button at the bottom — ",[34,190,191],{},"Continue to the rules"," on a computer, ",[34,194,195],{},"Start the exam",[34,197,198],{},"Start exam"," on a phone or tablet — unlocks when ",[34,201,202],{},"Every source you kept is recording."," The rules page repeats the one thing that matters: ",[34,205,206],{},"Your camera and screen are recorded for the whole exam. Once it begins it cannot be paused."," Then the paper opens.",[18,209,211],{"id":210},"during-the-exam","During the exam",[70,213,214,220,234,257,274,283,297],{},[26,215,216,219],{},[29,217,218],{},"The app keeps you in the paper."," On a Mac it fills the screen and hides the Dock and menu bar; Cmd-Tab, Force Quit and logging out stop working until you hand in. On Windows and Linux it fills the screen and stays in front, but switching windows still works — and is recorded. On an iPad or iPhone leaving the app is recorded; on Android the screen is pinned and unpinning is recorded. Screenshots are recorded, not blocked.",[26,221,222,225,226,229,230,233],{},[29,223,224],{},"The clock is the server's."," The room says ",[34,227,228],{},"Checking the time…"," until it has read it, then counts down. At ",[34,231,232],{},"Five minutes left. Your answers are saved."," a banner reminds you.",[26,235,236,239,240,243,244,246,247,243,250,253,254,61],{},[29,237,238],{},"Every answer is saved as you give it."," A question that did not save says ",[34,241,242],{},"Not saved"," with ",[34,245,131],{},"; the bar says ",[34,248,249],{},"N answers not saved",[34,251,252],{},"Send again",". Essays save to your device on every keystroke and to the server on ",[34,255,256],{},"Save essay",[26,258,259,262,263,266,267,270,271,273],{},[29,260,261],{},"Extra time granted by your olympiad appears by itself."," The room checks with the server every 20 seconds, so ",[34,264,265],{},"+N min granted"," shows in the bar within moments and the clock moves; you do not reopen anything. Extra time scheduled for later shows a button — ",[34,268,269],{},"Start extra time · N min"," — that you press when you are ready. If it is granted after you have handed in, the desktop app's ",[34,272,46],{}," shows it there.",[26,275,276,279,280],{},[29,277,278],{},"A second display plugged in mid-exam"," pauses the paper with the same sentence as the readiness check: ",[34,281,282],{},"The clock keeps running. Your answers are saved. The paper comes back the moment one display is left.",[26,284,285,288,289,292,293,296],{},[29,286,287],{},"A source that stops"," shows a banner — ",[34,290,291],{},"Your front camera is no longer being recorded."," — with ",[34,294,295],{},"Turn it back on",". The others keep going.",[26,298,299,302,303,306,307,61],{},[29,300,301],{},"Only one device at a time."," ",[34,304,305],{},"This exam was opened somewhere else. Nothing you answer here is being saved until you take it back."," — then ",[34,308,309],{},"Continue here",[311,312,314],"h3",{"id":313},"getting-help","Getting help",[14,316,317,318,321],{},"On a computer the room has a ",[29,319,320],{},"Help"," button. It unlocks the machine and freezes the paper:",[323,324,325],"blockquote",{},[14,326,327],{},"This machine is unlocked while this is on screen. You can open your mail or your browser to reach somebody. Your exam is held exactly where you left it — you cannot answer or move between questions until you come back.",[14,329,330,331,334,335,338,339,342,343,302,346,349],{},"It shows a short ",[29,332,333],{},"support code"," — the last six characters of your exam's id, plus the app version — and says: ",[34,336,337],{},"Read this code out when you contact support. It tells them which exam you are sitting."," Under it: ",[34,340,341],{},"Your olympiad's contact details are on"," its website. And the one thing to remember: ",[29,344,345],{},"The clock does not stop.",[34,347,348],{},"Back to the exam"," locks the screen again.",[18,351,353],{"id":352},"handing-in","Handing in",[14,355,356,359,360,363,364,367,368],{},[34,357,358],{},"End exam"," asks once — ",[34,361,362],{},"End this exam? Your answers are already saved. Handing in cannot be undone."," — and tells you how many questions you answered. Then ",[34,365,366],{},"Handing in your exam… Sending your answers. Do not leave the app."," When time runs out the app hands in for you: ",[34,369,370],{},"Your exam time has ended. Everything you saved is with us.",[14,372,373],{},"After that the recording finishes sending, and each app says what to do:",[70,375,376,388,400],{},[26,377,378,302,381,384,385],{},[29,379,380],{},"Computer:",[34,382,383],{},"Sending your recordings"," with a percentage. ",[34,386,387],{},"You can close this window — the parts are already on disk and sending continues, and resumes if you quit.",[26,389,390,302,393,396,397],{},[29,391,392],{},"Android:",[34,394,395],{},"Your recording is still uploading. Keep the app open until it finishes."," Then ",[34,398,399],{},"Your recording has finished uploading.",[26,401,402,302,405,396,408],{},[29,403,404],{},"iPhone and iPad:",[34,406,407],{},"Closing your recordings first. Do not leave the app.",[34,409,410],{},"Your answers and your recording reached us.",[14,412,413,414,417],{},"If part of a recording did not arrive, the app says so — ",[34,415,416],{},"Your answers reached us. Part of one recording did not, and the olympiad has been told."," — and there is nothing you need to do. A short survey may follow; you can decline it.",[14,419,420],{},[34,421,422],{},"Results are published once every paper in this session has been marked. You will get a notification and an email.",[424,425,428],"div",{"className":426},[427],"callout",[14,429,430],{},"Do the readiness check the day before, on the device you will use, in the room you will use. On exam morning, opening the app should be the whole preparation.",[18,432,434],{"id":433},"trouble","Trouble?",[70,436,437,443,453,462,468,482],{},[26,438,439,442],{},[29,440,441],{},"\"Payment pending — This exam opens once your payment has been recorded.\""," Pay on your olympiad's website or in the desktop app; the exam opens on its own afterwards.",[26,444,445,452],{},[29,446,447,448],{},"\"This exam needs your ",[449,450,451],"provider",{}," account. Link it on your olympiad's site, then come back here. Nothing is recorded until then.\""," Some exams run on a partner's site. Link the account first.",[26,454,455,458,459,461],{},[29,456,457],{},"\"This exam has not opened yet.\""," The window is in ",[34,460,46],{},", in your local time. Cameras are set up thirty minutes before it.",[26,463,464,467],{},[29,465,466],{},"\"A permission this exam needs is missing. Open Olympiads' first screen and grant it, then try again.\""," On a Mac, quit and reopen the app; the first screen shows which card is missing.",[26,469,470,121,473,476,477,479,480,61],{},[29,471,472],{},"\"This source produced no video.\"",[29,474,475],{},"\"This source stopped sending video.\""," Another app has the camera, or a cable came loose. Close the other app, press ",[34,478,131],{},", or ",[34,481,135],{},[26,483,484,487],{},[29,485,486],{},"\"The recording had to restart. Nothing you have answered is affected.\""," The server closed a recording session and the app opened a new one. 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