Assess real spreadsheet skills under your conditions

Let students build models, calculations and forecasts in the full spreadsheet software they know. You decide which files, add-ins and AI features they can use, and everything else is blocked.

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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

Let students do the real work in Excel

Spreadsheet assessments are often take-home work, so you can't be sure whether the student, someone else or an AI tool did the work. With Schoolyear, students complete them in the real Excel, with everything it can do, and hand in the workbook. You see the formulas behind every number and know the work is their own.

Close the cheating routes inside Excel

Excel has its own cheating routes, from Copilot to add-ins, online templates and data from the web. You decide per assessment which of these stay available, alongside the case, data and template you provide.

Configure the environment your assessment requires

Give students access to the spreadsheet software, add-ins, case materials, data and templates 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 answer questions 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

Turn on support tools like spellcheck, text-to-speech or a screen magnifier for the students who need them.

Examples of support tools

Spellcheck

For students with spelling difficulties, such as dyslexia

Text-to-speech

For students with spelling difficulties, such as dyslexia

Screen magnifier

For students with low vision

Secure spreadsheet assessments across disciplines

Subject area
Example assessments

Accounting

Prepare financial statements, process adjusting entries and reconcile the accounts of a case company.

Finance and Actuarial Science

Value a company with a discounted cash flow model, or calculate premiums and reserves for an insurance portfolio.

Business Administration

Build a business case for an investment, compare scenarios and give a recommendation.

Economics and Forecasting

Forecast demand or revenue from historical data and explain the assumptions behind the forecast.

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."

Irene Blankers
Educational Advisor

"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."

Harald de Vries
Senior Consultant Learning Innovation

"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."