Scantron Test/Survey Results Importer

Many iMIS customers need a way to import data from third party sources. Specifically, testing facilities will often submit a file of students and test scores submitted from the testing facility. For some organizations the students are known and for some the students may or may not be in iMIS. This tool provides for the matching and importing/synching of records into iMIS. In some cases the data that the student fills out when taking the test is newer. This allows the staff member to review each record and determine which fields to update on a record by record basis. Think of it as a duplicate merge manager for iMIS and an external spreadsheet. The key features of the system include:

• The ability to import a file provided by a testing facility that includes Scantron results.
• The ability to see and manage uploaded files • The ability to enter key information about a file including a course id, course number/name, instructor (from a drop down table in iMIS, course hours, and course exam date)
• This information will be used to process the file.
• Ability to automatically match the record against other iMIS records to determine if the person is a match or not with an iMIS record. The staff member can review each record and either select a possible match or create a new record.
• Ability to determine on a field by field data which data to update in iMIS based on the data in the spreadsheet.
• Ability to create new records on the fly from iMIS while correcting spellings or misinformation provided by the student when filling out the Scantron form.
• Saves CEU credit information and test scores in the iMIS activity record.
• Provides the ability to stop and finish later when reviewing student records. The solution uses the .NET iMIS Business object and fits into the iMIS infrastructure easily as either a .NET User Control or an iPart. It integrates with the iMIS 15 and iMIS 10 logins resulting in a unified single login.