Pearson Computer Science Exam Onscreen

[Bankesy]

Hi,

 

Hope you are all looking forward to the long weekend.

 

Seeking some advice about how people here may have gone about conducting on screen exams, particularly when it comes to spacing out the students or using privacy filters on monitors etc.

 

Thanks

[HC_Netman]

We use dividers to allow us to use computers next to each other. Something like these https://edividers.co.uk/ (we just use the cheapest version).

[dhicks]

On 01/05/2026 at 10:03, Bankesy said:

Seeking some advice about how people here may have gone about conducting on screen exams

 

We seem to have had an issue today where a document was missing from the exam bundle provided by Pearson - we had the expected Python files for the programming exam, but not the language reference ("PLS") document. Seemingly the pupils had it available in the exam in printed form, but they were expecting an electronic (and therefore searchable) version. This didn't get flagged to us until after the end of the exam, and we've now double-checked the original archive downloaded from Pearson this morning and not found the file present in that, so our guess is that other schools have had this problem.

[HC_Netman]

We had the file electronically. It was a separate download from the python files. Although we didn’t provide it electronically as the teacher told us it wasn’t needed. 

[Bankesy]

@HC_Netman

 

Tried those dividers, perfect for us. Thanks for putting me onto those.

[dhicks]

11 minutes ago, Bankesy said:

Tried those dividers, perfect for us. Thanks for putting me onto those.

 

We use those too - a nice simple and cheap solution.