Surepass and Academium SMS

If your school also uses Academium SMS, the two work together. SMS stays the place where your school's records are kept, and Surepass runs the computer-based tests and exams.

What Surepass takes from SMS

  • your session and terms;
  • your subjects;
  • your classes and sections;
  • your students;
  • your staff, who can then sign in to Surepass with their Academium password;
  • your exam halls, which become Surepass lab rooms;
  • your mark distribution (for example 1st CA, 2nd CA, Exam), which becomes your Surepass assessment types.

While your school runs this way, sessions, terms and subjects show Managed by Academium in Surepass. Change them in SMS, and Surepass picks up the change.

What Surepass sends back to SMS

When a test or exam is marked, Surepass can send the scores to the matching exam mark sheet in SMS. See Sending results to Academium SMS.

How the two connect

  • Both on school servers: when the SMS server and the Surepass server run at your school, they find each other on the network and link by themselves.
  • SMS on the Academium portal only: Surepass can keep a copy of your SMS records on the Surepass server. Set it up from the server's Portal tab. See The Portal tab.

To pull records across and see what has synced, use Academium Sync in the Surepass menu. See Academium Sync.

In the SMS guides