Printout : "Rest Break Card - A5 / A4 two per page" to have new option for 4 per A4 Sheet
Printout : "Extra Time Card - 8 per page" - switched Extra Time ? Yes No to just an input box so invigilators can enter the number of minutes rather than just yes or no.
Printout : "Exam Room Cover Sheets" - second check added and made them customisable.
New Printout : "Exam AA Used" in the Registers section to complement the "AA Used" in the Candidate section - reporting on the invigilator recorded Access Arrangements used.
Added the ability to select "No Seat" when moving a candidate in a room or into a room, to cope when the room is full and you need to shuffle the candidates about.
ICE booklet pdf link added to invigilator help pages
Trips functionality turned into module Trips Assist
New videos for trips - Trips Assist
New Seating plan printout - plain - with no exam details
New option on the Exam Skeleton Timetable by Exam report to not include Extra Time in the duration / end time
New print layout Exam Component Slips 20 per page
Print report Access Arrangement text options - to include icons and/or highlight colours
Multi-Print order of the collated printouts now defined by the order they are selected in
New print layout Exam Label with Invigilators - 8 per page
New print layout Allowances Card Teacher Feedback- A5 / A4 two per page
New auto seat order option Assign Seats - By Duration, Component, Teaching Set then Name designed for mocks where you want to keep the teaching sets together.
New duplicate exam season function
New invigilators clock design
Add Training session to the invigilators schedule.
New Register printout Examination Register By Component With Access Arrangements
New option on Exam Room Cover Sheet - By Room to show the AA counts per paper
New configuration option for Number of minutes before and after for Lead invigilators
Send Email to Candidates - pick the template to use (timetable, entries, results etc)
Send Email to Absent Students - in the Daily Planner > Attendance tab new action for sending an email to the candidates marked as absent.
Configuration setting for Pre-set Assistance required text (e.g. Toilet Break cover required)
Manual updated to V2.6 download here
Option for staff only to be able to login with an email address with a school domain
User Preference setting - To use date dropdown rather than calendar date picker.
New version 2.5 of the manual Download here
Added "Cyber Security" to the list of training items
New Colour Glasses Icon added to the AA icon options
Set exam highlight colour
New Printout: Candidate and Component Card with Seat AA + Photo - 8 per page
New Printout: Subject Group Level (list of students by teaching set & subject with their exam level.
Added configuration option "Toilet breaks - add additional time" to auto add additional time based on the duration of the toilet break.
Added Season setting in the Portal tab to hide the extra time duration - to just display the raw exam duration and end time to students.
Set Status for selected entries in the Entries tab.
Added Invigilator cost to the Schedule Excel download
Go4Schools MIS support
iSAMS via Batch API support
New Configuration option to enforce staff Multi Factor Authenticator - without this the users only get a banner asking them to do it. With the option they are forced to setup the authenticator.
New Entity attribute for safeguarding role users for "No Photo" where parents do not what the photo in SchoolWorkSpace / Exams Assist.
New options for Access To Scripts options :
Allow students to request a copy of selected scripts
Allow Exams Officers to complete the students consent form
Pivot table added to Results Excel Download
Exams Assist Manual updated for August 2025 - Download from the Exams Assist Help Page
Exam Results Help Page updated with videos.
New Help Video for Staff : Exams Assist : Exam Results Download Day
New Help Video for Staff : Exams Assist - Results Setup
New Help Video for Staff : Exams Assist - Entering Results
New Help Video for Students : Exams Assist : How to Access SchoolWorkSpace to view Results
New option to enable Invigilators to Accept or Decline shifts, so you can re-schedule them.
Exam Results - Edit season new tab to bring together results related season settings.
Exam Results - Access to Scripts - new functionality when students can grant access to their exam scripts and request copies.
Candidates - Post Results sub tab.
New report 'Results - Access To Scripts' to support the above
Move invigilator to alternate room
Access Arrangements Overview Tab
New action on the Timetable and Seating tab "Add candidates to subject exams based on group membership"
New configuration option for "Show digital clock above analogue clock" for invigilators
New configuration option to "Print Category Of Risk icon" - separates out the print and display of the category of risk.
New configuration option to "Enable Download Excel for print to pdf data"
New reports - AA Used and Exam Room Cover Sheet - By Room
Exam room streaming logs
Ability to create certificates based on a word mail merge document
Option to send letters based on selected students rather than only via search criteria.
new print option for attendance letter.
Attendance statistic tiles - % attendance by group with trend graphs.
Ability to have meeting durations with a multiple of 30 second durations and gaps.
Configuration for parents and / or teachers to enter booking notes.
Configuration option to enable share screen function
New Music and Read Aloud icons
Invigilators cancel assistance required
Option to show candidate photos on the invigilators candidate list.
Staff portal - show the upcoming exams for the members of the group(s)
New reports - Word processor cover sheet & invigilators sign in sheets
Note for date to display to the invigilators
Broadcast notification to Invigilators
Fire and Lockdown notifications
New invigilator instruction videos on the help
New report "Access Arrangements Counts Per Exam" (in the registers section)
Invigilators can now record if a candidate has used their access arrangements for an Exam or not using their portal.
Invigilators can now record if a candidate required additional time due to unforeseen circumstances.
Added the ability to upload Information for Candidates (as pdf) to be displayed when they login or view their exam timetable.
Added and additional Access Arrangement Setting for a Dictionary - then can disable the dictionary AA for an exam.
Replicate Seating plans - create your master plan then select the other exam to copy to.
Added the ability for the Invigilators to hide Extra Time from the exam room display.
New Report - Electronic material download check from.
New Report - Candidate Seat Card - 8 per page
Exams Aid can Schedule invigilators - new Configuration option
Multi-Site Support - set the site on the invigilators and staff - filter the seasons to the selected site for the user.
New module currently bundled with Messaging
Create trips & Events, invite students and staff to attend.
Collect emergency contact details and any additional information required for the trip e.g. medical, medication and passport details
Once on the trip create roll calls and take attendance
Coming soon the ability to take payments for trips and events via the Invoice Module
New functionality bundled with Messaging
Link to SumUp to create invoices and send to parents & Staff for payment.
Create invoices for charging for Retakes in Exams Assist
Send invoices to parents and track payment.
Text to speech to generate invigilators speech
Exam attendance (Present, Absent, Late) added to Examination Register, Exam Candidate List - By Exam and Seating Plans - Medium Boxes with AA for Invigilators reports
New room setting “Offsite Room” - Where the exam happens at home any attendance taken by the invigilators will not want to be written back as present or absent from the school.
When re-scheduling an exam for a candidate there is now the option to clear the room.
Multi site support - set the site for the season and set the site for the candidate.
Multi site support - for SIMS when importing the Statement of Entries into a season with a site set option to only import for the candidates already in the season. Effectively splitting the one SIMS SOE by site.
External candidate photos - on the candidate popup now has an option to upload a photo for the external candidates.
Can set a separate Hourly rate in config for Lead Invigilator or on the invigilator for the estimated cost of invigilators on the overview tab.
Exams Assist Results tab to show NEA and Mock Results added to the season
Add NEA and Mock Results to gradebooks for selected exam elements and components
Export NEA and Mock Results created to excel
Import NEA and Mock Results from the updated Excel file.
When adding an external candidate, you can specify the email address rather than requiring editing it again to set the email address.
Room setting to hide the deactivated columns and rows from the seating plan.
Seating Plan – can now select a highlight colour for an exam in the room.
Entries Tab - update teaching set level (Foundation, Intermediate, Higher) from exam entry element name
Candidates Tab - Exam Timetable for a candidate in popup now has better links to the popup from the timetable and seating tab and a link to the invigilators popup for that candidate in the exam
Invigilators Popup - new exam officer function to reschedule the exam for the candidate
Excel Schedule download - added Skeleton_Timetable worksheet
Edit Seating Plan - added seat Non Extra Time option to complement the Extra Time only option
Edit Seating Plan - deactivated seats added ability to select an icon for the deactivated seat
Clash Excel Download - add worksheet to list all clashes
Alternate Location - take attendance for students in the location
Option to import a Global Grade and display this on the attendance tracking grid.
Copy room and seat allocation from another exam function for an unroomed exam - select an existing exam to copy all the rooming and seating over.
Extra Time Other % , in the Access Arrangements > Extra Time tab, added Other to the ET Dropdown to allow either entering a custom % or the number of minutes.
Configure Exams Assist - new option to set the Extra Time % that are in the dropdown.
New report "Candidate and Component Card with Seat + Photo - A5 2 per page"
Option to remove tick box from Medium Seating Plan
New icons for AA to indicate compass points in the room.
New icons for AA for A to Z
Added Snake seat order to printing component cards.
Manage Access Arrangements - Multi select students and clear all Access Arrangements option.
New Functions to support students out of class
Toilet breaks
Missing and Found
Alternate locations e.g. Medical Room & Well-Being & Inclusion Room
Candidate Timetable pdf - option to add photo to header
Access Arrangements > Extra Time tab - multi select and set %
All Staff Invigilator training Excel download
New colour Extra Time icons so you can highlight different ET %
Added Roaming to Invigilator schedule download
iSAMS Excel imports added options for when importing the entries & timetable
Multi Add Invigilator training.
Exam Timetable Print option to add message to header and footer.
New AA Icon added - Large Print (Icon image) 
New Yellow and Purple colour background for candidate cards - updated to consistent terminology of Cand No rather than some being Exam No
"No Entry" level for teaching sets to not be used for creating exams.
Bromcom - import the exam seating via the api - enable the switch in the season for room+seat in Exams Assist or Bromcom.
Trial mode
Discount for Exams Assist schools
Option to add FSM and supported Student flags as columns to attendance tracking grid
Define Tracking letters at MAT/LA level and import at the school
Mailing List
Attendance Tracking Integration
Inbox for Parents can report absences
Access Arrangement Type Seating plan name highlight colour
iSAMS import files updated to support alternate format - also can import the entries and timetable
Scan for level changes
Embargo results visible to users in the SMT role
Embargo Until for an exam - on file import and select result rows
Result printout PDF - option for printing all or just results for a season
Results broadsheet download - by qualification - not just by subject
Separate embargo end time for staff so can let them see the results before the students.
Students can now share exam results with Parents - normally the exam results in the portal are only displayed to students but a new checkbox has been added to allow the students to show them on their parents portal too.
Exam Results - import csv
Exam Results - manual entry by group - From Actions at bottom of the Results tab
New Config option to allow Edit invigilator names so invigilator names are not updated from the staff account imported from the MIS
Upgraded to the Invigilator/Rooms xlsx download (from the Schedule tab) to separate the exams and merge together cells
Upgraded the Candidates xlsx download (from the Candidates tab) to include exam logs and start and end times for exams and by exam stats.
Upgraded the invigilators xlsx download (from the Invigilators tab) to include the schedule and present/absent status. Also option for multi season.
Exam Results Component xml file import.
Exam Results Email - either from candidates tab or Results tab
Exam Results - component results displayed to student - both in portal and on click in email.
Exam Results - label printing
Added filter for Statutory School Age only
Ability to switch weekly tracking table between % attendance, % Absent, % Unauth-Absent, % Auth-Absent, % Punctuality
New Attendance Tracking module - By week % monitoring, attendance streaks, poor attendance letters, 100% attendance certificates.
New Messaging Module - Low cost, simple to use, Email and SMS to Parents, Students and Staff.
Option to enable a Student Dashboard with Attendance gauge visible to student, parent and staff.
Configuration for Attendance target for the gauge red and amber areas.
Option on printing the "Seating plan - Medium boxes for display" to include the students reg group
Invigilators announcement - multiple audio file support, and built in example (based on jcq instructions
Option (in config) to add reg and/or year group to the invigilators candidate list.
Overview page now has a few different heatmaps - and print version is tidied up a bit.
Print candidate timetables - option to split the pdf by candidate and save as a zip file.
Printing seating plans - slight tweak to scale to fit to use a bit more of the page.
Emailing parents and students from the timetable tab for reminders
New Report "Exam Room Incident Log" in the Room section
New Report "Candidate Timetable Label - 4 per page" in the candidate section
Lesson Attendance writeback option for SIMS
Invigilators display - update assistance required with the responses
Print Daily Noticeboard - uses the Daily Planner AM/PM filter
Daily Planner - Exams subtab option to breakdown by room for easy breakdown of exam papers required for each room
Multi-Print - option to allow you to select multiple reports to create a 'report pack' e.g. 2 x Seating plans and the exam register. Report pages are collated into one pdf.
Reporting to parents - comments, and signature input types for staff, parents and students.
Principles of Progress added to Welsh Cross-curricular skills frameworks
Reports - download to Excel
Attendance Letters - calculate attendance stats for a date range and use the % as the criteria to include students
Reorganised the School Settings into tabs
School Settings - show invoices and status - linked to Xero API for daily update.
No Send date for suppressing emails being sent to a person. Email bounce list for emails that fail to send.
Reorganised the Edit Season into tabs
Configure invigilators Check List, markdown support and copy from JCQ option
Configure invigilators end exam Declaration for signature
New option when Building Timetable and Assign Seats from Entries to not process the Entries - just assign the seats.
Room Display cope with overlapping exams running in the room.
Show Extra Time % on the invigilators overview display
Room Display - show room schedule if no current exams (includes schedule from Room Booking module)
Exam Timetable selective restore - compare current exam tt with the backup and allow selection of rows to restore.
Invigilators Display - Show non Extra time end time for SRB and late start candidates
Invigilators Schedule - option to display the list of exams in their schedule
New filter for Candidates tab for clashes only
NEA (Non-Exam-Assessment) and Mock Result cut down Gradebooks for entry and display on the Student portal
New alternate layout for the Access Arrangements Card
Reports to remember the last used sort order
Skeleton timetable Report - option to exclude invigilators
Skeleton timetable and AA register reports - new sort orders
Configuration of Term dates
Link Schemes of Work to terms
Link Reporting to parents generate the report to terms
Principles of Progress setting for a Scheme of Work and onto a gradebook
New configuration options to allow invigilator allocation features
Allow adding invigilator to a Roaming session even if already allocated to a room
Allow adding invigilator to a supervised room even if already allocated to a room
Enable start and end times to be specified for an invigilator in a room.
Second pair of eyes report new page by room sort option
Arbor:
import Access Arrangements options
don't overwrite arrangements defined in Exams Assist
Bromcom handle withdrawn Entries
Invigilator tab - show timestamp of when the user last accessed the invigilator functions.
Results printing - optional date filter
New option to use invigilators Forename + Surname
When building exams for subjects option to use lesson times (if available)
new option to hide the candidate names in the schedule if there are only one or 2 in the room
Invigilator Checklist - configuration and new tab for invigilators to check
Invigilators enable 5 minute, 15 minute and 30 minute warnings - to display the time n minutes before the exam end time.
Invigilator show tally of present/absent/late at bottom of candidates tab
iSAMS import of AA and candidate details reports
Invigilator Checklist - copy from JCQ - with sections and headers
Config to hide qrcode scanner if not using
Entries excel download to have a withdrawn worksheet
Invigilator full screen display - scaling if lots of exams and not fitting
What's New Page - goes live
Bromcom native API support instructions
Edit group membership
Access Arrangements - Scribe required Yes/No
Seating plan highlight colours switch off if AA not required for the exam
New Report "Exam Room Info Sheet"
Option on "Candidate Card with Larger Photo - 8 per page" to add a blue border to differentiate AM and PM cards
Candidate - New stronger Delete to remove entries and seating and the candidate from the season.
Arbor - better support for candidates with withdrawn entries.
Options on "Candidate Card with Photo - 8 per page" and "Candidate Card with Larger Photo - 8 per page" for red, green or blue borders.
Guillotine Sort option on "Candidate and Component Label with Seat - 14 per page"
Add gridlines to "Access Arrangements Register - A4 Landscape" to help invigilators align ticks to access arrangements.
Option when sending an email to parents to only send to Priority 1 parental contacts
Link to configure Exams Assist from the overview tab
Configure Exams Assist - added tabs for easier navigation. New Results Days config to enter the dates for results and time the embargo will end.
Improvements to the auto assign seats to make tidier layouts
Ability to add a range of seats not to auto assign if there is capacity e.g. row of seats at front of room
Retake scanning - fixed to cope with withdrawn candidates
International Baccalaureate csv/excel import
Attendance Tab warning if Xporter is offline
Candidate Timetable publish option to hide room and seat so can share the timetable while seating still being finalised
Use legal names option
Edit Centre number for a candidate - for external candidates
Add Retake columns to Exam Excel download
Candidates tab - multi select action to assign to room
New Report "Exam Room Cover Sheets"
Assign selected rows to a room from the timetable and seating tab
Sort orders on seating plan edits - add by Reg Group - show reg group when editing
Landscape option for "Room Candidate and AA Counts per Exam" report
Exam Orals - Prep Time, Duration and individual candidate start time
Public iframeable published exam timetables - with config option
Configure Contingency Dates
Schedule tab - filter by Not Learning Support
Schedule tab - set selected as learning support
Contingency dates added to Candidate Timetable footer
New options for "Candidate and Component Label with Seat - 14 per page" Reg Group/Year Group and AA Icons
New option for "Examination Register" to exclude the Present box.
Added candidate number to the candidates exam timetable visible from clicking on the email.
Other added to the Session Date time for adding a roaming and supervised room
Process markdown text in comments
Import of csv from Hwb for usernames/emails and national test results
Framework Skills - separate from Descriptions Of Learning
Configure Gradeset to use for "Framework Skills" and add to new tab on the gradebook
Cope with gradebooks with over 100 columns
Import & Export of Faculties
Import and Export of report templates
Separate parent and student authorise entries so can get them both to do it.
Ability to hide Access Arrangements in the Student/Parent portal
Include Invigilators Availability in the Excel download
Retakes function to scan for entries in earlier seasons
Candidate extra time used added to the excel download
Arbor - import in house exams
Seating plans - ability to flip rows and columns / A-Z axis
Seating plan AA highlight colours
New popup for request for help alerts so can keep it open while continue to use the software.
New report for Exam Envelope Labels - option to add AA counts
Added End Time for SIMS attendance writeback notes
Arbor import - default level to "-" so not skipping exams that are missing a level.
Add Prompt function for invigilators to record for a candidate with the Prompt Access Arrangement
New icon for Speech Recognition Access arrangement (a microphone)
Add duration to the Schedule Excel download Exam Schedule tab
Multi line comments
Reporting to parents - template designer
Reporting to parents - attendance stats
SchoolWorkSpace