Session Manager
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Preparing to Give Assessments on a Session Manager MIDSA
To give assessments on computers other than the one that has the Administrator MIDSA, the Administrator must create a file with authorizations for both Session Managers and respondents. The Session Managers will then import this information into the Session Manager MIDSA before they give an assessment. NOTE: If the assessment is to be taken in…
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View or Modify Information About a Session Manager
Select View Session Manager List from the workspace or Edit/View History in the Session Manager menu. This assistant has four functions: View, Edit, Change Password, and Change Status. To use any of the functions, highlight (mouse click) the desired Session Manager from the list on the left. The buttons in the middle column will become…
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Adding Session Managers
In addition to setting up respondents, Administrators must set up Session Managers and export authorization information (.auth file). The Administrator decides who may give assessments and chooses usernames and passwords for them. This only needs to be done once for each Session Manager unless you wish to change the Session Managers’ passwords or their status…
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First Use of MIDSA: Session Manager Profile
To register a Session Manager MIDSA, the administrator must create an authorization file (.auth) that includes authorization of both Session Manager(s) and Respondent(s) (see Create a Session Manager Authorization File). Run the MIDSA installer on the remote computer (see Installation Instructions included in email with installer), then launch. Choose “I am a Session Manager who…
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Importing Completed Assessment: Administrators Only
You will need the Completed Assessments file that the Session Manager created when the respondent finished the assessment. It has the name Completed Assessments followed by the date and time (and some additional numbers). The extension of the file is .zip and it was placed in the Completed Assessments folder (which is in the MIDSA…
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Importing Authorization File (.auth) to Session Manager MIDSA
First Use The first time the Session Manager uses MIDSA, the program will present a window asking you about your profile. You choose “I am a Session Manager who has never used this MIDSA, but I have an .auth file.” MIDSA will open the Import .auth Assistant. (see First Use of MIDSA: Session Manager Profile)…
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Export a Completed Assessment
NOTES: Your respondent may not be in the default list, which are reports for which MIDSA has NOT created a report. Go to the top of the window, click on the drop-down menu and choose “Received Reports.” The respondent may be in that list. If your list of respondents is long, you may use the…
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When MIDSA calls the Session Manager
There will be some cases where MIDSA asks the respondent to call the session manager. In every case, you respond by pressing the Control-Alt-L keys (all at the same time). The login dialog will display. Once you log in, MIDSA describes the current problem and asks for your choice. The three times MIDSA asks the…
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The following error message appears: “The archive cannot be accepted because it contains invalid data.”
First, check that it is a Completed Assessments.zip and not an authorization file (.auth). If it is the former, email the Completed Assessments file as an attachment to midsa@midsa.us. In your email message, describe the events leading up to the error (what you did, any unusual events such as lights flashing). MIDSA support will create…
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You highlight the completed assessments, but find that the Open button is grayed out. This happens if the Completed Assessments file gets unzipped. This would happen if you wanted to be sure you had the right file and unzipped it to find out.
To fix this problem, look to see if the zipped Completed Assessments is still there. If not, zip the Completed Assessments folder: (for Windows) right-click on the folder, choose “Send to:” then “Compress“; (for Mac) right-click on the folder and choose “Compress“. You should then be able to Import the Completed Assessments zipped file.