Assessment Control service

The Assessment Control service forms part of the Proctoring Services specification. It allows the Proctoring Tool to send messages to the Assessment Platform during or after the assessment.

Service availability

The availability of the Assessment Control service can be checked using the hasAssessmentControlService() method; for example:

if ($resourceLink->hasAssessmentControlService()) {
    ...
}

Assessment Control Action object

An Assessment Control Action object has the following properties:

• action - action to be taken (pause, resume, update, terminate or flag)
• date - date/time of incident
• severity - severity of incident
• extraTime - extra time in minutes to be added to the assessment
• code - reason for the request using a Tool-specific code
• message - reason for the request as a human-readable string

The first three properties are required and used when creating the object, for example:

$action = AssessmentControlAction::ACTION_PAUSE;
$date = new DateTime();
$severity = 0.2;

$acAction = new AssessmentControlAction($action, $date, $severity);
$acAction->extraTime = 10;
$acAction->code = 'N52';
$acAction->message = 'Equipment failure outside candidate\'s control';

Send action to Assessment Control services

Using the AssessmentControlAction object from above and, from the incoming Start Proctoring message, the user's ID and the attempt number, an action can be sent to the Assessment Control service as follows:

$user = new User();
$user->ltiUserId = $userId;
$status = $resourceLink->doAssessmentControlAction($acAction, $user, $attemptNumber);
$ok = $status !== false;