• Questions are added to exams on the Questions -tab. Questions are always added to Sections, which the exam contains one or multiple. An exam section is a group of questions.
  • Add a fitting name to each Section (required field). The Sections are displayed to the examinees as separate pages of the exam.
  • The Section description field can be used to write Section-specific instructions for the examinee.
  • By selecting the “Randomize questions” option, you can randomize the number of questions given to the examinee in that specific Section. To select the randomize option, all questions in that specific exam section must be equally valued (same amount of points or pass/fail).

Note

If you have enabled Randomize questions, questions may be added to the section only by disabling the option.  If more than one attempt has been specified for the exam, question randomization does not take the examinees previous attempts into account.  

  • You can add new questions to by selecting the “Add questions from the question bank” or “Add new question” button.
  • After adding questions to section, you can view the total score of that section. Add new sections to the exam by selecting the “Add new section” button.

No links!

Don’t use web-links in the questions or exam materials, because web access is typically restricted on the exam computers.


Add questions from the Question bank

  1. Click “Add questions from the question bank”
  2. Select the questions you want
  3. Click “Add selected”

You can search for questions by course implementation (code), exam name, question tag, exam section or question owner. Note, that you can only add a question once per section. However, the same question can be added to the exam multiple times by adding it in separate sections.

Question bank


Add questions directly to the exam

If you have no questions in your question bank, you can also add them directly to the exam by selecting the “Add new question” button. Remember that all created exams are saved in your question bank for later use. You can add the following question types in EXAM: Essee question, Fill-in exercise, multiple choice question (one and several correct answers), and statement question (can be edited). You can view question specific instructions by clicking on the links below:


Editing questions in exam

You can edit, copy or delete the added questions from the Settings drop-down menu. Select Edit, Copy or Remove.

Question settings. Edit, copy, or remove.

Be careful when editing a question that has been attached to several exams

  • If you edit questions that have been added to other exams, the changes will take effect in all exams the question has been attached to.
  • If you have copied an exam and questions from another teacher, changes will be visible in both exams.

Students’ exam attempts questions are protected from post-editing. This means that if a student has already taken an exam attempt and the questions are edited after, the student’s exam questions are not affected.

Editing questions in question bank/library

If you edit a question in the question bank, the basic information is edited in all exams that is has been added to, but the point grading values and question instructions are not edited.



To edit the exam, go to Active exams. Click at the name of the exam to open and edit it.

The questions and the exam period can be edited although the exam has been published. After a student has signed up for the exam, editing possibilities are limited, amongst other things shortening of the exam period is not possible. The software informs you if editing is not possible.

The editing of questions does not affect the exams already taken, but it affects coming exams (e.g. exams reserved but not yet started).

When an exam has closed, it can be found under the tab Archived exams. The teacher can re-open it by clicking the name of the exam and the tab Publish. Change the date in the calendar.

You can copy an exam and make changes to it.

If a student has reserved time for a personal exam but not shown up for it or if the student needs to retake the exam, the examiner must make a new copy of the original exam (i.e. a new direct link to the exam is created).