How to use Exam Lobby

Learn how to restrict students' access to an assignment until a teacher admits them.

Teachers can control when students can work on an assignment with Exam Lobby. Students won't be able to see or work on the assignment until a teacher lets them in.

How to enable Exam Lobby

1. Navigate to a Derivita assignment
2. Click the pencil icon
3. Scroll down to the Focus Controls section
4. Turn on Restrict Access
5. Click Save

How to admit students

When you're ready for students to start, click Exam Lobby in the top right. This will open the lobby in a new tab.

As students click "Ready", they'll appear in the lobby list, and you'll be able to click Admit.

Re-admitting students

If a student exits an assignment, they won't be able to do any more work until you re-admit them.

You can re-admit a student at any time from the Exam Lobby.

Admitting students using the backup password

You can also admit students by entering a password on their computer. This can be helpful when you want to have other teachers let them in.

For example, if a student plans to take a test during study hall, you can share the backup password with their study hall teacher, who will then type it in when they're ready.

To find the backup password:

1. Open the assignment
2. Click the pencil icon
3. Scroll down to Backup password