By Default, Exam IDs are scoped to the parent term of the schedule's term. For example, if you have the following term structure in the ZD instance:
Terms
Academic Year 2020
Spring
Summer
Fall
And your schedule was created under the Spring term then the ExamIds would be created at the Academic Year level and be the same for the entire academic year. This would be at the PARENT TERM of the Schedule's term.
You can change this to the Schedule's TERM by setting the this setting to TERM
Exam ID Term = TERM
If this setting is present then unique exam ids would be created for each of the terms and schedules created in those terms will use terms Exam IDs. In the example above a student would have different exam ids for Spring, Summer and Fall.
This is an instance level setting and will not take effect until the next DATA SYNC.
Option 1 Exam ID Term = PARENT (Default)
Terms
Academic Year 2020 (IDs Here)
Spring
Summer
Fall
Schedule #1
Option 1 Exam ID Term = TERM
Terms
Academic Year 2020
Spring (IDs Here)
Summer (IDs Here)
Schedule #2
Fall (IDs Here)
Schedule #3