UG External Examiners in MMS

While External Examiners for PGR students are imported into MMS automatically, External examiners for UG modules need to be added by the school. These users will need a University username and passwork and to have the ‘MMS user’ flag on their account.

New External examiners

If an external examiner has not acted in the role before and does not have a St Andrews username and password:

  1. Contact [email protected] and request an External Examiner account. They will send the External instructions on how to activate their account.
  2. Once the account has been activated log into MMS.

Add the External Examiner to the school:

  1. Log into MMS.
  2. Select the school (not ‘Show all) from the drop down list on the Modules page.
  3. Select the View School button.
  4. Select the Assign Staff Roles link from the People section.
  5. Enter the username into the search field and select the Search button.
  6. Select the user by checking the tick box next to their name.
  7. Select the Import External Users button.

After associating the user to the school add the user to the module:

  1. Log into MMS.
  2. Access the module by clicking the module title or searching for the module via the Search field in the Modules page.
  3. Select the Staff tab.
  4. Enter the username in the search field.
  5. Select the user from the list.
  6. Select the External Examiner role from the Role drop down list.
  7. Select Module from the Group drop down list.
  8. Select the Add button.

Returning External examiners

To add a returning external examiner to a module:

  1. Log into MMS.
  2. Access the module by clicking the module title or searching for the module via the Search field in the Modules page.
  3. Select the Staff tab.
  4. Enter the username in the search field.
  5. Select the user from the list.
  6. Select the External Examiner role from the Role drop down list.
  7. Select Module from the Group drop down list.
  8. Select the Add button.

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