Planet SSI. Student User Guide. Page 1 of 8

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1 Planet SSI Student User Guide Page 1 of 8

2 Getting Started Your school will setup an account and communicate your username (which will be your address) and your password directly with you. Once you receive this information you can log into the web site at Logging In When you first visit Planet SSI, you'll see a Log In box on the left side of the Welcome Page. Use the log-in fields to enter the address and password your School Administrator provided to you and then click the Log In button. Throughout Planet SSI there are boxes which are used to explain what each of the accompanying fields or sections are. Page 2 of 8

3 After logging into the web site, you'll be taken to a Console page. The left navigation buttons are used to access the resources available on Planet SSI which a brief explanation of each is provided below. Download: Here you will be able to download Software Secure products. Exam Center: Here you will register for classes, check exam availability, download take home exams, and uploading exam answers. Reports: Here you will obtain reports regarding your activity such as download and upload of exam times. Page 3 of 8

4 EXAM CENTER The exam center is where you ll be able to set your location and time zone, keep your Planet SSI access up to date, and manage your classes. Within Exam Center you will download and upload both your take home exams and Securexam s. The first thing you will notice is that you can set your time zone by using the drop-down menu titled Student Time Zone underneath the predetermined School Time Zone. All exam times are absolute and set according to the School s time zone. That means when an exam is due on December 15, 2006 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time it is due at that time no matter where you are in the world. By changing the Student Time Zone all exam times will be converted to your time zone. For example, a Student who sets their time zone to Pacific Time will see that the exam mentioned above is due on December 15, 2006 at 8:00 AM Pacific Time. The Time Zone choice will remain on your last setting, even after you log out. So if you move from time zone to time zone during exam period, make sure you change the time zone on the web site so you are certain of your exam deadlines. The Opt in of Securexam s section is a means by which the schools can accurately track which exams will be used by student s computers. Selecting or unselecting will not affect your ability to download or upload exams. Page 4 of 8

5 All classes that you are registered for will appear on this page and will show Teacher, Class, and Section if applicable. The section entitled Classes and Exams lists the exams that exist for your classes by Teacher, Class, Section, and Exam name. At the beginning of the exam row is a + character. Clicking on it will display additional information for the exam. For Securexam s, the additional information will appear as displayed in the below illustration. No additional information about a Securexam is displayed. The information can only be obtained by using Securexam Student to download the exam. If your teacher has created an exam for your class to be used with Securexam, you must launch the Securexam software and click on the Get Exams and Licenses button. Securexam will then connect to Planet SSI and download your exam information. For Non-Securexam s (also known as take-home exams), the additional information will appear as displayed in the illustration below. Most exams are setup with an Available From and an Available To date and time along with a designation as to either the Number of Hours you have to complete the exam after download or the specific date and time your exam is due. All of this information can be accessed by clicking on the (+) to the left of your teacher s name. The Available From date and time is the earliest your exam will be available for download. The Available To date and time is the latest your exam will be available for download. The Due N Hours After Download field: if it contains a value will represent the number of hours you have to complete the exam once it has been downloaded. It is important that you do not download your exams until you are ready to work on the exam because the clock will start once the download button has been pressed and it can t be reset. If there is no value in this field then look to the next field, which is the... Page 5 of 8

6 The Due By field represents the date and time your exam is due. All exams are either Due By a certain date, or a certain number of hours after download. One or the other of the last two fields above will tell your time constraint on the exam A Download button next to an exam means that an exam is in its available time period (in between the Available From and To Dates) and contains an actual exam for you to download. An Upload button with no Download button next to an exam means that you are either within the available time period and there is no exam to download (for example the teacher handed you the question in class and told you to submit your answer in a Word document to the system); or, you have downloaded an exam and the available period for downloading the exam has passed. A Download and Upload button next to an exam means that you are still in the available period and have already downloaded the exam at least once. (NOTE: While you can download an exam multiple times subsequent downloads do not reset the initial download date and time stamp that are used for the purposes of monitoring exam compliance.) Page 6 of 8

7 As illustrated above, when you are looking to upload an exam, press the upload button and you will be given a blank field with a Browse button. Click on the Browse button and locate the file you would like to upload. Once the file is selected and appears in what was the blank box to the left of the Browse button click the Upload button. After uploading, a dialog box will appear and an will be sent to the address you used to access Planet SSI confirming receipt of your file. Page 7 of 8

8 Reports The Reports of Planet SSI will allow you to view exams posted by teachers for your classes as well as results for the exams that you have uploaded. You may also search the list of available exams using the Exam Search function. Use the calendars to search for exams according to specific dates. To search for take home exams choose Non-Secure from the Securexam Type within the Additional Search Criteria section. Planet SSI gives you the ability to preserve and share Reports either by printing them or by exporting them to a CSV file for use in Microsoft Excel. Select the checkbox next to the exam that you would like to print or export, and then click the appropriate button below the list. Page 8 of 8