Students’ Guide¶

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General Information
Participating in the Artemis Online Exam

General Information ¶

Prerequisites ¶

Stable internet connection

Recommendation: Use a LAN connection if possible.
Browser

Recommendation: Chromium (based), e.g. Google Chrome, newest version.
The following prerequisites are only required if your exam contains programming exercises:
- Java IDE with JDK 16
  
  Recommendation: Eclipse IDE 2021‑03.
- Git Client
  
  Recommendation: SourceTree

Offline Mode ¶

The exam mode in Artemis tolerates issues with the Internet connection.
If you lose your connection, you can continue working on text-, quiz- and modeling exercises, but you might get warnings that your solutions cannot be saved.
If your Internet connection recovers, Artemis will save your solution.
Artemis tries to save your solution every 30 seconds, when you navigate between exercises, and when you click or .
Programming exercises have 2 modes.
1. Online code editor: can only be used when you are online.
  
  Note
  
  You have to click on ! Otherwise your solution will not be pushed to the VC server and no build will be triggered.
2. Local IDE: you only need to be online when you clone the repository and when you push your commits (i.e. submit your solution).
At the end of the online exam, you must be online within a given grace period and submit your exam, otherwise it will not be graded.

Suggestions ¶

Do NOT reload the browser
- If you reload the browser, the Welcome Screen screen opens and you must enter your name and confirm the checkbox again.
- You should only reload if an error occurs that cannot be recovered otherwise!
Participate in ONE browser window!
- Working in multiple browser windows at the same time is not allowed!
- It will lead to synchronization issues and is seen as suspicious behaviour that can be flagged as cheating.
Do not reload, you will receive a warning¶

Participating in the Artemis Online Exam ¶

Accessing the Exam ¶

Log in to Artemis with your account credentials.
The current exam should be displayed at the top of the Course Overview screen.
You can also access the exam by navigating to the course and then to the exams.

Note

The exam will become visible shortly before the working time starts.

Welcome Screen ¶

The welcome screen gives you an overview of all the important information you need about the exam.
Carefully read through the instructions.
Once you have read them, confirm that you will follow the rules, sign with your full name and click .

Note

Your full name represents your signature. You can find your full name as registered on Artemis below the input field.
After you confirm, if the exam working time has started, the Exam Conduction screen will automatically appear.
Otherwise, you must wait until the exam begins. A popup will appear which will notify you how much time is left before the planned start.

Exam Conduction ¶

Once the exam working time starts and you have confirmed your participation, the Conduction screen will appear.
On the header, you will find the Exam Navigation Bar. You can use this bar to navigate between different exercises. For each exercise an icon will display your current status.
- When there are unsaved or unsubmitted changes, the exercise representation on the navigation bar becomes .
- When your changes are saved and submitted, the exercise representation on the navigation bar becomes .
- indicates that you have not started this exercise.
You can also navigate through the exercises when you are done with one by clicking . This action will save and submit your changes and move to the next exercise.

Warning

For programming exercises, you must manually press otherwise your solution will not be counted!
On the header, you will also find the button. If you press this, you will be sent to the exam End Screen.
The time left until the end of the exam is also shown next to the action buttons, or below, depending on your screen size.

Note

When the time is about to run out, the background of the timer will turn yellow to warn you.

Participating in Quiz Exercises ¶

Various question types can be included in quiz exam exercises. These are:
1. Multiple choice questions
2. Short Answer questions
3. Drag and Drop questions
All questions are listed in the main screen below one another.
To navigate between them you can either scroll or use the question overview on the left. When you click on one of the question representations, your view will automatically scroll to the respective question.
To submit your solution, simply press .

Note

Your submission will automatically be saved every 30 seconds.

Participating in Text Exercises ¶

The text exercise view is divided into two sections, the text editor, and the problem statement. The problem statement is docked to the right.

Note

On small screens, the problem statement is shown above the text editor.
If you want to focus only on the text editor, you can collapse the problem statement by pressing on . This can be reverted by pressing the arrow again.

Note

You can also choose to resize the problem statement by dragging the outline box .
Within the editor you can type out your solution. The editor will automatically track your number of words and number of characters.

Participating in Modeling Exercises ¶

The modeling exercise view is divided into two sections, the modeling editor, and the problem statement. The problem statement is docked to the right.

Note

On small screens, the problem statement is shown above the modeling editor.
If you want to focus only on the modeling editor, you can collapse the problem statement by pressing on . This can be reverted by pressing the arrow again.

Note

You can also choose to resize the problem statement by dragging the outline box .
Within the editor you can model your solution. Depending on the diagram type, you will find the available elements on the right side of the editor. Simply drag and drop them into the editing field.
When you click on a dropped element, you can configure it by setting it’s name, it’s attributes, methods etc.
To connect elements you can simply drag an element’s edges to another element. The editor will then automatically connect those two.
If you are unclear about how to use the modeling editor, you can click on . It will provide further information about how to use the modeling editor.

Note

If you need more space, you can work in fullscreen by clicking on . This mode will use your whole screen for the modeling exercise thereby giving you more space to model your solution. To exit the fullscreen mode simply click .

Participating in Programming Exercises ¶

Depending on your exam, programming exercises can come in three forms:
1. Online Code Editor + support for local IDE
2. Online Code Editor
3. Support for local IDE
If your exercise allows the use of the code editor your screen will be divided into three sections, from left to right:
1. The file browser
2. The code Editor
3. The instructions
The file browser displays the file structure of the assignment. You can access any file within the assignment. Artemis will display the selected file’s content in the code editor where you can edit it.
- You can add new files and directories using the and buttons.
- You also have the ability to rename and delete files and folders, therefore caution is advised.
  
  Note
  
  If you accidentally delete or remove a file, you can use , to load the last saved version from the server.
The code editor allows you to edit the content of specific files. It shows the line numbers and will also annotate the appropriate line, if a compilation error occurs.
The instructions are docked to the right.
If you want to focus only on the code editor, you can collapse the instructions by pressing on the . This can be reverted by pressing the arrow again. Similarly, if you want to collapse the file browser, you can press the above the file browser.

Note

You can also choose to resize any of the three sections by dragging the .
When you press , your files are saved on the Artemis server. However, you must press for your solution to be counted!
When you press , your changes are pushed to the version control (VC) server and a build is started on the continuous integration (CI) server. This is indicated by the results changing from to .

Warning

There is no auto-submit!

If your exercise allows the use of the local IDE you will have access to the button .
When you click it you can choose to clone the exercise via HTTPS or SSH, if you have configured your private key.

Note

You must link a public key to your account in advance if you want to use SSH.
To work offline follow these steps:
1. Clone the Exercise
2. Import the project in your IDE
3. Work on the code
4. Commit and push the code. A push is equivalent to pressing the button.

Clone Repository — Clone the Repository¶

Warning

You are responsible for pushing/submitting your code. Your instructors **cannot** help you if you have saved, but did not submit.

Your instructors can decide to limit the real-time feedback in programming exercises during the online exam.
In that case, you will only see if your code compiles or not:
1. means that your code does not compile!
2. means that your code compiles but provides no further information about your final score.
Warning

Edit a programming exercise EITHER in the online editor OR in your local IDE! Otherwise, conflicts can occur that are hard to resolve.

End Screen ¶

When you are finished with the exercises, or the time runs out you navigate to the End Screen.
This is done either by clicking on or automatically when the exam conduction time is over.

Note

If you navigated to this screen via , you have the option to return to the conduction by clicking on .
In this screen you should confirm that you followed all the rules and sign with your full name, similar to the Welcome Screen.
You are given an additional grace period to submit the exam after the conduction is over. This additional time is added to the timer shown on the top right.

Warning

Your exam will not be graded, should you fail to submit!
Once you submit your exam, no further changes can be made to any exercise.

Summary ¶

After you hand in, you can view the summary of your exam.
You always have access to the summary. You can find it by following the steps displayed in: Accessing the Exam.
Further you have the opportunity to export the summary as a PDF file by clicking on .
The summary contains an aggregated view of all your submissions. For programming exercises, it also contains the latest commit hash and repository URL so you can review your code.

Once the results have been published, you can view your score in the summary.
Additionally, if within the student review period, you have the option to complain about manual assessments made. To do this, simply click on and explain your rationale.
A second assessor, different from the original one will have the opportunity to review your complaint and respond to it.
The complaint response will become visible to you as soon as it has been assessed.
Again, you can export the summary including your score as a PDF file by clicking on . The PDF will also contain any complaints and complaint assessments.

Note

The results will automatically be updated, if your complaint was successful.

Complaint — Complaining about the Assessment of a Text Exercise¶