Avoiding System Time-outs during Authoring Sessions

While you are working on a question bank, the system client holds your changes to the working copy of the active question bank. While authoring or editing a question, if you click Finish, the system places a copy of your question in the class Web site cache.

 

If you do not interact with the system for about 12 minutes, the system logs you out of your session and purges the question bank data (losing any changes that have not been added to the Web site cache). When you log in, you revert to the cached version of your question bank.

 

If the system server is restarted, the cache is purged. You revert to the last installed version of your question bank. You can also upload a saved version of your question bank from your hard drive to your client.

 

Important: If you stop interacting with the system for more than a few minutes, it is recommended that you either:

 

The Testbank persistence time is controlled by the system administrator.  To change its value, contact your administrator.

 

See Also:

Saving to a File versus Reinstalling a Question Bank