Link Your Course Canvas with RegisterBlast (Important)
To ensure your students can schedule their exams for your course to test with ATS, it is critically important that you link your Canvas course to RegisterBlast. Linking the course allows only students officially enrolled in your class to see it as an option when booking their exams. Without this connection, students will not be able to locate your course in the scheduling system.
- Open Your Course in Canvas: Log in to Canvas and navigate to the course where you'd like to enable the Testing Services module.
- Go to Course Settings: In the course navigation menu on the left, click Settings.
- Open the Navigation Tab: At the top of the Settings page, click the Navigation tab.
- Locate TestingServices in the Hidden Items List: Scroll down to the bottom section where hidden navigation items are listed. Look for Testing Services. (It may appear as "RegisterBlast" in some documentation, but it has been renamed to "Testing Services" in our Canvas shell for clarity.)
- Enable Testing Services: Click and drag Testing Services from the hidden items list to the desired location in the active course navigation list above.
- Save Your Changes: Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Save button. If you skip this step, the changes will not be applied.
- Verify the Module is Enabled: Return to your course home page and confirm that Testing Services now appears in the course navigation menu.
We have a short (4-minute), easy-to-follow video to guide you through this process.
Always Log In to RegisterBlast Through Canvas
Once you have followed the process above to add the RegisterBlast "Testing Services" tool to each of your course Canvas instances, you should always log in to RegisterBlast from there. When you log in to RegisterBlast via your Canvas course, it knows who you are and the course that you want to work with. This being the case, it is important that you log in this way rather than logging in to RegisterBlast directly, from outside Canvas.
Register an Exam in RegisterBlast
- Link your course to RegisterBlast (see instructions above if you haven’t done this yet).
- Sign in to RegisterBlast from within Canvas for the course you want to work with.
- Be sure to click “Sign in with School Credentials.” You will log in with your PSU Odin credentials.
- From the Submissions page, click the “+” (plus) icon in the upper right to create a new exam submission.
- Details: Enter the exam name, course (this will auto-populate with your Canvas courses), start and end dates, and the allotted time. Click Next.
- File Management: Upload or drag and drop any exam files needed.
- If your exam isn’t ready yet, that’s okay, just be sure to upload a PDF copy at least 24 hours before the first scheduled exam. Click Next.
- Please note: if we do not have exam files at least 24 hours before your student's appointment with ATS, we will not be able to have them test with us that day.
- Additional Information: Provide your instructor details (name, email, and phone number), specify what materials students are allowed to use, and include any important notes for the proctor.
- This section dictates what students can bring into the testing room, so please be detailed. Click Next.
- Eligibility & Restrictions:
- Leave blank if you want your whole course to be able to see the exam in RegisterBlast. (We recommend doing this if you anticipate needing multiple makeup exam appointments with ATS)
- If you only want your DRC-registered students or a specific student to be able to see and schedule this exam, enter their email(s) in the “Limit Eligible Takers” field.
Additional Details: Include any other important information or special instructions you’d like the testing center to know.
Edit an Exam Submission
To edit an exam previously submitted, hover over the three dots next to the exam in your "Submissions" page and select "Edit". Once you have edited the necessary items, hit Submit at the bottom of the page to re-submit your edited exam.
Do not forget to hit Submit, or your changes will not be saved.
Clone an Exam Submission
This is what you should do to create make up exams that you have already added into RegisterBlast, or if a student is unable to take an exam at a specific date or time and needs to take it past the exam deadline or before the exam administration date.
If you want to create a new exam, but use an old exam as a template (ex. if the base time, materials allowed, etc. is the same for more than one exam), RegisterBlast allows you to clone any of your old exam submissions. To clone an exam submission, follow the same steps as above for viewing and editing an exam, except choose the Clone option in the drop-down menu. This will pull up the Submission Builder and allow you to create a new exam using a previous exam as a template.
If the exam already exists in RegisterBlast for the rest of the students in the course:
- Hover over the three dots next to the exam in your "Submissions" page and select "Clone"
- Edit the name of the exam so that it is differentiated from the original exam.
- Adjust the start and end dates of the exam to reflect the adjusted window of time.
- In the "Eligibility and Restrictions" section, enter the name(s) of who the exam will be available for (also listed as "Limit Eligible Takers"). Only students listed in this section will be able to register for this exam.
- If additional students need to take the exam, you can edit this submission to include them.
If the exam has not previously been entered into RegisterBlast:
- Please see Register an Exam in RegisterBlast at the top of this page.
- In the "Eligibility and Restrictions" section, enter the name(s) of who the exam will be available for (also listed as "Limit Eligible Takers"). Only students listed in this section will be able to register for this exam
Receiving Completed Exams
When exams are completed, they will be scanned and uploaded into RegisterBlast, and you will be notified of their availability. If you would like to schedule a time to pick up physical copies of printed exams, please email testingservices@pdx.edu.