Assess business students in Excel, R and Jupyter, not on paper

Let students demonstrate business thinking and doing in Excel, R and Jupyter. You decide which software and files they can use, and whether AI is allowed. Everything else is blocked, so the work they hand in is their own.

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"With Schoolyear, students can use bookkeeping software, visit the exam site, open and fill in an Excel file, and then write a report about it in Word. All in a secured session, without access to AI or outside resources."

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Harmen Frans Talstra
Advisor Educational Technology & IT

"The teachers are satisfied with the BYOD setup for their Moodle exams. Schoolyear saves us money in the sense that we do not have to have so many computer rooms anymore."

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Kicka Lindroos
IT Coordinator

"With Schoolyear, students can use a desktop application during an exam and we can make it AI-proof. This way, we can assess if students have the necessary knowledge themselves."

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Irene Blankers
Educational Advisor

"We had cases with our previous proctoring setup where we needed to look into whether we were dealing with a cheating case or not. The moment that you're conducting exams in Schoolyear, that is reduced heavily. This is saving us a lot of time."

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Vincent Meertens
Program Director BSc/MSc

"We can secure exams proactively instead of after the fact. This creates calm for students, clarity for teachers, and less hassle with the e-invigilators you no longer need."

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Lucas Vermeulen
Test Center Staff Member

"Schoolyear makes it possible to do skills assessments with the use of extra applications, like Rstudio, Excel and Matlab. Before, this was only possible with managed computers."

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Harald de Vries
Senior Consultant Learning Innovation

"We wanted to introduce safe and robust digital testing on campus. However, no combination of exam rooms had 800+ computers available at the same time. Schoolyear was the perfect and robust solution that we were looking for, as this allowed us to use the laptops of the students in regular exam rooms."

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Dennis den Ouden
Lecturer

"We sought a flexible solution for fraud prevention during exams on students' own laptops. Schoolyear allows us to use our educational spaces more flexibly and reduce the need for fixed PC rooms."

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Gerard Folkerts
Product Owner Digital Assessments

"Before the introduction of the Schoolyear, lots of eyes were needed to make sure students didn’t use search engines, chat apps, notes, or email."

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Derk Riesthuis
Project manager

AI broke the take-home. Every fallback costs you something.

Take-home work no longer proves learning

A finished model or case report doesn’t show who did the analysis: the student or the AI.

Paper exams test recall, not business skills

Easy to trust, but students can’t build a forecast, run a regression or clean a dataset on paper.

Excel on their own laptop opens everything else too

With it come ChatGPT, Copilot, OneDrive and a friend on chat. The result is no longer an authentic picture of what the student can do.

Assurance of learning, in the software business students use

The tools of the discipline

Students build models in Excel, analyse data in SPSS or R, code in VS Code and write up in Word, just like they do during the course.

Their own work

Copilot, personal files, OneDrive, chat and other apps stay out of reach. What students hand in, they made themselves.

Set up by faculty

Educators choose the apps, files and websites for each assessment, right in your LMS. No IT ticket for every exam.

Excel without Copilot, with the add-ins you need

Excel has Copilot built in, so opening the app opens the AI too. With Schoolyear, you decide what happens inside Excel: Copilot off, add-ins like Solver on, and no access to personal files or OneDrive. Students build valuations, budgets and forecasts in the software of the field.

Statistics in R or SPSS, not on paper

Econometrics and analytics courses run on R, SPSS or Python. Students clean the data, run the model and interpret the output in the software they learned, with the packages the assessment needs. AI assistants and the rest of the internet stay out of reach.

Keep the project. Add a moment of proof.

Group projects and case reports show how students think, but not always who did the work. Add a supervised checkpoint where each student applies the case to new data, in the same software they used for the project. You set it up in your LMS like any other quiz.

Case files and submissions never touch the student’s laptop

Hand out the case file, dataset or template with the assessment. Students open it inside the workspace and submit their work from there, to your LMS or to Schoolyear. Nothing is saved on the student’s own computer, so the case can’t leak after the assessment.

Configure the environment your assessment requires

Give students access to the software, case files, datasets and websites your assessment requires. Keep everything else out of reach.

Set the conditions for a fair assessment

Should AI be part of the assessment?

That depends on your learning outcomes. Block AI when students must work on their own, or allow supervised AI when working with AI is part of the skill.

Two ways to approach AI

Block AI

To assess what students can do on their own

Allow supervised AI

To assess how students work with AI

Make room for different student needs

Allow support tools such as spellcheck, text-to-speech and screen magnification, so students can demonstrate their skills within a controlled assessment environment.

Examples of support tools

Spellcheck

To assess what students can do on their own

Text-to-speech

To assess what students can do on their own

Screen magnifier

To assess what students can do on their own

Authentic assessments across business disciplines

Subject area
Example assessments

Accounting

Prepare journal entries and a trial balance from a client file in Excel, then explain the adjustments.

Finance

Build a discounted cash flow valuation in Excel and test how sensitive it is to the discount rate.

Economics and Econometrics

Estimate a regression in Stata or R and interpret what the coefficients mean for the policy question.

Operations and Supply Chain

Optimise a production plan with the Excel Solver add-in and recommend the order quantities.

Marketing

Analyse survey data in SPSS, segment the customers and advise on the target group.

Business Analytics

Clean a sales dataset and build a Power BI dashboard that answers the management question.

Harmen Frans Talstra
Advisor Educational Technology & IT

"With Schoolyear, students can use bookkeeping software, visit the exam site, open and fill in an Excel file, and then write a report about it in Word. All in a secured session, without access to AI or outside resources."

Kicka Lindroos
IT Coordinator

"The teachers are satisfied with the BYOD setup for their Moodle exams. Schoolyear saves us money in the sense that we do not have to have so many computer rooms anymore."

Vincent Meertens
Program Director BSc/MSc

"We had cases with our previous proctoring setup where we needed to look into whether we were dealing with a cheating case or not. The moment that you're conducting exams in Schoolyear, that is reduced heavily. This is saving us a lot of time."

Secure any device

No surveillance

Privacy by design

We secure the assessment by locking down the device, not by filming the student or their screen. Nothing is recorded, so there is no footage to store, review or leak.

No webcam recording

Anything outside the whitelist is blocked at system level. Cheating is stopped the moment it's tried, not spotted on a recording afterwards.

No screen recording

Students are not filmed or analyzed while they work. Less stress during the assessment, and no arguments afterwards about what a recording showed.