News

05/20/2020 — New features for the summer term 2020

• Submissions (remote exams)
  TUMexam now offers the possibility to distribute problem statements using our new review platform. These can be either filled out digitally, or printed, worked on, and scanned. Subsequently those solutions are submitted to our servers and feeded into the correction pipeline just as scanned exams. This new procedure is currently being evaluated in our Basic Corse Computer Networks with about 1200 attendees.
  If you want to supervise remote exams, Big Blue Button hosted by the RBG might be a solution for you that is independent from TUMexam and fully compliant to data protection rules.
• Official Corona layouts for lecture halls
  We integrate the official Corona layouts for lecture halls into TUMexam. In addition, we offer Layouts with zone-based overviews that show which students have to be seated first to conform to distance rules.
• LaTeX web editor
  To ease access to our LaTeX template for users without LaTeX installation or without sufficient experience, we integrated a web editor. Since this feature is still under test, it is disabled by default. Please let us know if you want to use that feature. All other users that do not want to use LaTeX can, of course, provide own templates that can be uploaded in the TUMexam web interface.
• Reworked multiple choice functions
  TUMexam now offers generalized calculation functions for multiple choice problems. More information can be found in the documentation of our LaTeX template.
• Distribution of students to lecture halls and seatplans
  As an option, the distribution of students to lecture halls can now be based on registration numbers instead of names. Also, seatplans can now optionally be based on registration numbers.
• Extended help and notes in the web interface
  The webinterface with its integrated help functions and notes has been notably improved.