About RegisterBlast at IU
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Overview
RegisterBlast is a web-based scheduling tool for faculty to request in-person proctored exams at a campus Testing Center and for students to schedule an exam time within the faculty's exam window. Both faculty and students can access RegisterBlast from inside their Canvas course.
Faculty
Add RegisterBlast to your Canvas course
RegisterBlast is hidden by default.
To add a hidden tool to your course navigation menu, see How do I manage Course Navigation links?
Request an exam block
Classes are not added to RegisterBlast until one week after the term begins to allow time for block schedules to populate in SIS. If you need to schedule an exam in the first two weeks of the course, email your campus Testing Center:
The Testing Center will manually load your course in RegisterBlast.
- In your Canvas course, select from the course navigation menu.
- Select .
- Select (the plus sign).
- Enter the course name, course number, section number, exam(s), exam day(s), and exam length.
- Select .
You'll receive a confirmation message when your exam is approved.
View student history
Faculty can view all student history for their classes in RegisterBlast. The History tool lets you see the dates and times students registered for, when they arrived and when they left, and whether they walked in, had a reservation, canceled, or no-showed.
To view a student's history in RegisterBlast:
- In your Canvas course, select from the course navigation menu.
- In the header, select .
- Type the student's first or last name in the "Search" field, or adjust the "From Date" and "To Date" date pickers, and then select .
- Optionally, to save the results, select , , or at the bottom of the page.
Students
Schedule an exam
- Navigate to your Canvas course.
- Click on the left-hand side of the page.
- Follow the prompts to enter the information about the exam you would like to schedule. Most information may be prefilled based on your current Canvas course. If it is not, you'll need to provide the course name and section number.
- Select an available block of time when you'd like to take the exam.
- Click .
- Review the information on the next screen, and then click .
Reschedule an exam
- Navigate to your Canvas course.
- Click on the left-hand side of the page.
- At the upper right, click .
- Enter your email address and click .
- Check your email account for a link to take you to the exams you have scheduled.
- Next to the exam you would like to reschedule, click .
- Click .
- Click to schedule another date and time.
Get help
If you need help with RegisterBlast, contact your campus Testing Center:
- IUPUI Testing Center: 317-274-6916
- IU Kokomo Testing Center: 765-455-9395
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Last modified on 2023-11-21 13:25:05.