Creating an exam – teacher's guide

1 Where to create an exam

An exam is built in its own editor view, which you open from “Create Exam” in the navigation. The view is titled “Create New Exam” (when you edit a saved exam, “Edit exam”, see section 13). A finished exam can be linked to a course in the course’s basic info (see section 14).

Create New Exam→ Settings + questions→ 👁 Preview→ Save Exam→ Link to a course

An exam is a standalone item: you create and save it on its own, and a single exam can be linked to any course from the course’s basic info. Practice quizzes and hybrid quizzes that belong to a course topic are made separately in the course editor.

2 Editor overview

The editor has two columns: settings on the left and the exam preview on the right, where you add the questions (Part A and an optional Part B). At the bottom of the left column are the “Save Exam” and “👁 Preview” buttons. The ? button next to the heading opens a quick guide.

The exam editor: settings and the Save Exam and 👁 Preview buttons on the left, questions on the right. The point total updates at the top.

3 Exam settings

The settings in the left column define the exam’s basic details and exam conditions.

Exam Subject – the subject (e.g. Mathematics). The subject also helps the matriculation exam task browser suggest the right subject.
Exam Name – the name of the exam shown to the student.
Time Limit (minutes) – how much time the exam allows.
Exam Instructions – instructions that can be opened during the exam (text editor). The student opens them in the exam with the “📋 Show instructions” button.
Add Authentication – requires the student to authenticate before starting.
Add Exam-time Monitoring – camera monitoring for the duration of the exam.
Allowed Websites for Part A – a list of allowed websites in the format website.com ; Website Name (one per line). All other websites are blocked.
Required questions for A – the minimum number of questions the student must answer.
Separate B-Part – splits the exam into two parts (see section 10).

Authentication and monitoring as checkboxes; allowed websites and the required number of questions.

4 Adding questions

Add questions with the “Add question to Part A” button in the right column (and “Add question to Part B” in Part B). The button opens the question type menu, where you choose the type of question to add. The question goes into the part whose button opened the menu.

Added questions appear one below the other as cards in the preview, and the total points update at the top (follow-up question points are included too, see section 9). Tick Required on a card to make the question mandatory. You can empty the exam with the “Clear Exam” button.

The question text fields have a small formatting bar: bold, italic, underline, list, link and image. To add a link, first select the text the link should go on.

If you tick “Save question to bank” in the form and enter a folder name, the question is also saved to the exam question bank for later use.

5 Question types

“Add question” opens the “Select Question Type” menu, which has ten cards. The newest additions are the Multiple-choice set and Matriculation exam tasks.

The question type menu: ten cards. The highlighted ones are new (9/2026).

✅ Multiple Choice – the student picks the correct answer from the options; you can allow more than one correct answer. Checked automatically.
📝 Math essay (formerly “Essay”) – an open answer where the student has the math editor (formulas, images, drawing). You can give a model answer.
✍️ Essay (writing) – a longer writing task in a word-processor editor.
⬜ Cloze question – the student fills in words missing from a text. Write the text in the formatted field (images and audio files allowed), select a word or number and press “✂️ Make selection a gap”: the text gets a {{1}} marker and the selected text becomes the gap’s correct answer. A gap can be a text, number or drop-down gap. Checked automatically.
🔗 Matching pairs – items in the left column are matched with the right ones. Each side of a pair can now be text, an image or both (section 7). Checked automatically.
🎧 Multiple-choice set new – one shared source (e.g. audio or text) with several multiple-choice items below it on the same page (section 6). Checked automatically.
🎥 Video response – the student records a video as the answer.
📂 Load from Bank – brings in a ready-made question from the exam question bank.
🎲 Random Question – draws a question for the student from a chosen folder; you can add several at once (section 8).
🎓 Matriculation exam tasks new – opens the matriculation exam task bank browser, where you can add matriculation exam tasks to the exam or draw a complete mock matriculation exam. See Matriculation exam tasks for details.

Forms: every question type opens in the same kind of card: the type and part (A/B) at the top, then the name, the task prompt, the type’s own fields and, at the bottom, points, saving to the bank, Cancel and Save question. You can attach an audio file to the prompt of every type with “🔊 Add audio (mp3)” (max 6 MB). Cancel closes only the form – questions you have already added stay in the list. Editing a question can be cancelled too.

💡 Tip – a rubric for AI grading: if your school uses AI, the AI can make a preliminary assessment of open questions (math essay, writing essay) when you grade the exam. You get more accurate and consistent scoring when you add a rubric, i.e. scoring instructions for the AI, at the end of the open question’s model answer/correct answer (what earns points and how many for each). Multiple choice, multiple-choice sets, cloze and matching questions are checked automatically, so the rubric applies to open questions. See Grading exams.

6 Multiple-choice set new

A multiple-choice set has one shared prompt or source with several items below it, each a multiple-choice question of its own. The student sees all the items on the same page. The type is designed especially for language listening tasks: one recording with many questions below it.

The multiple-choice set form: a shared prompt (image and mp3 audio allowed) and items with their own options and points. The total points are calculated automatically.

How to create a multiple-choice set

Task – write the shared instructions or source. With the “🖼 Add image” and “🔊 Add audio (mp3)” buttons you attach an image or an audio file (audio up to 6 MB).
Items – each item has its own question, options and points. A new form starts with one item and three empty options. Add items with “+ Add item” and options with “+ Add Option”; ✕ removes them.
Correct answer – mark the correct option with its checkbox. In a normal item the checkboxes work like radio buttons (only one correct).
Several correct – when this box is ticked, the item may have several correct options, and the student sees the instruction “Select all correct options.”
Points – the question’s points are the sum of the item points; the field cannot be edited separately.

When you save, the app checks that every item has at least two options, a correct answer is marked, and a single-answer item has only one correct answer. Anything missing triggers a message, for example “Item 2: mark the correct answer”.

Scoring

One correct – the correct choice gives the item full points, otherwise 0.
Several correct – points are proportional: (correct choices − wrong choices) / number of correct options, but at least 0.

When grading, you see each item separately: the student’s choices are marked ✓/✗ and the correct options ●.

You can add a multiple-choice set to an exam, the exam question bank and a hybrid quiz (as a subtype there). It is not available in course tasks. A multiple-choice set can also have a follow-up (section 9).

7 Images in matching pairs new

In a Matching pairs question, each side of a pair can now be text, an image or both. This lets you create, for example, image ↔ word tasks or match a graph with a function.

A pair row: a text field and a 🖼 button on each side. An added image appears as a thumbnail, and 🖼✕ removes it.

🖼 (Add image) – choose an image file for the left or right side of the pair. A large image is scaled down automatically (to at most 400 px) to keep the exam light.
🖼✕ (Remove image) – removes the image from that side; the text stays.
A pair is valid when both sides have text or an image. Empty rows are left out, and the question must have at least two pairs.
You can also attach an image to the question text with the “🖼 Add image” button.

Scoring works as before (correct pairs). In grading and in the preview, images appear as thumbnails; an image-only side is shown in text lists as [image]. Image pairs also work in the exam question bank and in hybrid quizzes.

8 Random questions

A random question is a slot in the exam where a question is drawn for the student from a chosen folder in the exam question bank. Different students therefore get different questions. You can add several random questions at once and give them points.

First enter the points and the number, then click a folder. The number in brackets is how many questions the folder has.

Choose 🎲 Random Question as the question type in the part (A or B) where the questions should go.
Enter the points (Enter points for the random question). Points are required.
Enter the Number of random questions (default 1).
If needed, find the folder with the search field and click the folder. The given number of random questions is added to the exam, each with the given points.

3. Random Question

Folder: Integraali · Points: 4 · ☐ Required

Each random question appears as its own card (Folder, Points). You can change the points afterwards (Edit Random Question).
Points are per slot: the student gets the points you set for that slot in the exam for the drawn question, not the bank question’s own points.
Questions drawn from the same folder are different questions within the same student’s exam. If the folder does not have enough questions for all the slots (slots added earlier are counted too), you get the message “Not enough questions in this folder”.
The question is drawn for the student only when the exam starts. In the preview you can draw a sample question and change it with the “Draw another” button.
A random question can also have a follow-up (section 9).

9 Follow-up: follow-up question or video confirmation

You can attach a follow-up to any question (except a video response), which turns it into a two-part question. The follow-up is either a 📝 follow-up question, which the student answers in writing, or a 🎥 video confirmation, which the student answers with a video. A question can have one follow-up.

Add a follow-up with the “+ Add follow-up (writing or video)” button at the bottom of the question card.

Every question (except a video response) has the “+ Add follow-up (writing or video)” button below it.

📝 Follow-up question (written answer)

By default the form opens as a follow-up question. The student first answers the question, confirms the answer (the answer is locked), sees the question’s model answer and then answers the follow-up question in writing. You grade the follow-up question with its own points.

The follow-up question form: the question, points and a preview of the model answer the student sees after confirming.

Follow-up question for the written answer – the text of the follow-up question (required).
Follow-up points – at least 0.5 (default 2). The points are added to the exam’s total points.
The model answer is taken automatically from the question itself: the correct options of a multiple-choice question, the answers of a cloze question’s gaps, the correct pairs of a matching question and the model answer of a math essay. The form shows what the student will see. If the model answer is missing, you see a warning: in that case add it to the question’s own model answer field.
If the follow-up is attached to a writing essay, the form gets the required field “Model answer for part A (shown to the student after confirming)”, because a writing essay has no model answer of its own.
For a random question, the model answer is taken from the drawn question. There is no model answer for writing essays in the folder.

🎥 Video confirmation

Choose “🎥 Video confirmation” in the form. The student first answers the question and then has to record a video or audio answer to the question you give (e.g. justifying the answer or verifying their own work).

Question for the video answer – the instructions or question the student sees while recording.
Max duration (s) – the maximum length of the video (default 60 s).
🎙️ Audio only – an audio recording only, without video.

A video confirmation has no points of its own; it complements the original question.

Saved follow-up

A saved follow-up appears at the bottom of the question card. You can edit or delete it.

✅ Multiple Choice 2 p.

📝 Follow-up question: Explain why you chose this option…2 p

EditDelete

In grading, the follow-up question is a question of its own with its own points field. Alongside it you see the Part A question, the student’s Part A answer and the model answer shown to the student. See Grading exams.

10 Parts A and B

An exam can have one or two parts. By default only Part A is used. When you tick “Separate B-Part”, Part B with its own questions also appears in the preview, and each part can have its own allowed websites and required number of questions.

Required questions – set separately for each part: how many questions must be answered.
Allowed websites – Parts A and B can have different websites.

When you turn Part B off, Part B’s required count and any Part B questions marked as required are reset.

Two parts are useful, for example, in matriculation-style exams where Part B allows different tools than Part A. The “Draw a mock exam” function in the matriculation exam task browser turns Part B on automatically if the exam has Part B tasks.

11 Exam preview new

The preview shows the exam as the student sees it: the title, timer, tools, question navigation and one question at a time. You can try the questions (choose options, match pairs, fill in gaps), but nothing is saved, and the preview has no monitoring or submission.

The “👁 Preview” button is in three places:

In the exam editor next to the Save Exam button – shows the current state of the editor, including unsaved changes.
On the exam card in the Browse Exams list – shows the saved exam.
In the exam details view (the ⚙ on the exam card) – shows the same exam from the details view.

The preview window: the top bar shows the name, number of questions, the open question, “Show correct answers” and “✕ Close”. Below it is the student’s exam view.

What the preview shows

Title, instructions text and timer – “Answer … questions” according to the required counts. The timer shows the exam’s time limit, but it does not run.
Tools – the allowed websites and the student’s standard tools (Capture Screen, Calculator, Abicus, Symma Calc). In a two-part exam the websites change depending on which part’s question is open. Website links open in a new window; the tools are shown for appearance only.
📋 Show instructions – opens the exam instructions just as for the student.
Question navigation A1, A2 … B1, B2 and Previous/Next. “Finish exam” and “Submit Part A and move to Part B” are shown, but they do not work in the preview.
Random question – the preview draws a sample question from the folder (points according to the exam slot). “Draw another” changes the question.
Math essay, writing essay, video response – shown as placeholders (e.g. “The student has the math editor here (formulas, images, drawing).”, “Recording works only in the student app.”).
Follow-up – appears below the question as a box with the note “Opens for the student only after Part A is confirmed.”

Show correct answers: this option in the top bar highlights the correct options in green and shows a “Correct answer” box below the question (e.g. the model answer, the gap answers or the correct pairs). This lets you check the exam’s correct answers before publishing. Close the preview with ✕ Close or the Esc key.

12 Saving

When the exam is ready, press “Save Exam”. Saving requires the exam subject, name and time limit and the number of required questions for Part A (and for Part B, if it is in use). A successful save shows the message “Exam saved successfully!”, and the editor is cleared for the next exam. A saved exam is edited with the Edit button in the Browse Exams list (section 13) and linked to a course after it has been activated (section 14). “Clear Exam” resets the editor (removes all added questions). Check the exam with the preview before saving or publishing.

Saving also copies the new questions created for the exam to the exam question bank, into a folder named after the exam and the time of saving. This way the questions can be reused in other exams later.

💾 Save Exam 👁 Preview 🗑 Clear Exam Σ Total Points update automatically

The questions of an exam are stored as questions shared by the exam and the exam question bank. When you save a new exam (also a copy or Save as a new exam, section 13), a changed question or follow-up gets a row of its own: the question of another exam or of the exam question bank does not change.

13 Editing a saved exam new

A saved exam is opened for editing with the Edit button on the exam card in the Browse Exams list. The exam opens in the same editor, but the editor shows clearly that you are editing an exam that has already been saved.

Title “Edit exam” – instead of the new-exam title “Create New Exam”.
Yellow banner – “You are editing the saved exam [exam name]. Save will overwrite it.” The banner’s “Start a new empty exam” button clears the editor for a new exam (the old exam stays as it is).
Save changes – saves the changes to the same exam (overwrites the old version).
Save as a new exam – saves the edited version as a new exam. The old exam stays as it was, and neither its questions nor those of the exam question bank are changed.

Confirmations

The name changed – if you change the name of the exam you are editing and press Save changes, the app asks “Overwrite the old exam?”: Save as a new exam, Overwrite the old exam or Cancel. A new name often means that you are making a new exam based on the old one.
Create Exam while editing – if a saved exam is open for editing and you choose Create Exam in the navigation, the app asks “An exam is being edited”: Start a new exam (empty editor) or Continue editing.
After saving the editor is cleared right away, so the next exam always starts empty and does not overwrite the one you just saved.

Copy or edit? If you want a new exam based on an old one, you can also use the Copy button on the exam card: the copy opens in the editor as a new exam (title “Create New Exam”, button Save Exam).

Active exam: an activated exam cannot be opened for editing (message “An active exam cannot be edited.”). Edit the exam before activating it, or make a copy of it. If you correct a question of an active exam in the exam question bank, push the correction to students with the “Update Exam” button in the Browse Exams list; exam permissions and already submitted attempts are kept.

14 Linking an exam to a course

A saved exam is linked to a course in the course’s basic info, not to a topic. Open the course, go to the Basic Info tab and choose the exam from the “Linked exam” drop-down.

The exam is linked to the course from the “Linked exam” menu on the Basic Info tab. The default is “No linked exam”.

The menu lists active exams. If the exam you want is not listed, make sure it has been saved and is active.