Installing and connecting the Client Edition

The Client Edition opens Surepass from your school or centre server. Install it on every lab computer and staff computer.

Install it

The easiest way is from your school server's own download page, which works without the internet. Ask your School Owner for the address, or see Connecting computers to the server. You can also download it from the Academium downloads page.

Connect to the server

  1. Open Academium Surepass Client.
  2. It shows Looking for servers… while it searches your school network.
  3. When it finds your school's server, click Connect.

If more than one server is found, choose your school or centre's server. Next time, the Client Edition connects by itself and opens the sign-in page.

If no server is found

The screen says No servers found. Check that:

  • the school server is switched on and says Server Running;
  • this computer is on the school network, not a phone hotspot or another Wi-Fi.

Then click Scan again. If it still finds nothing, click Connect manually and enter the server address your School Owner gives you, for example http://192.168.1.20:8080.

Switching to another server

Click Switch Server at the top of the window, then choose the server.

Keeping the computer's clock right

The Client Edition sets this computer's clock from the school server every hour, so exam timers agree across the lab.