In the exam studio the AI helps with the tiring parts: it suggests distractors, hints and explanations, writes questions on a text you paste, copies an exam from paper, makes a second sitting, an adapted version or a version in another language, checks the exam before it goes out, and drafts an exam blueprint. Nothing goes into a question until you accept it.
Help writing a question
- ✨ Suggest wrong answers: next to "Add an answer" in a multiple-choice question (in a completion question: "Suggest wrong answers for the bank", next to "Add a wrong answer to the bank"). You get three suggestions, each with "Add", plus "Add all" and "Other suggestions".
- ✨ Write a sample answer: in an open question.
- AI help: the row at the end of each question has "Write a hint", "Explain the answer" and "Review the question". The hint goes into the hint field, and the explanation into the question's closing text. The review returns up to five notes, the important ones first.
- Grading guide: in an open question, "Grading guide" opens a field, and "✨ Write a grading guide" suggests one, with a percentage for each part of the answer. Students don't see it, and the AI's grade suggestions in the grading room follow it.
Each suggestion shows in a panel under its button. "Use it" puts it in (when the field already has something, the button is "Use instead of what's there"), and "Another suggestion" asks for a new one.
Questions on a text
In the "Create questions with AI" window (opened by "Add a question with AI" or "Create the exam with AI"), open "Based on a text (optional)" and paste a reading passage, an article or a lesson summary, up to about 4,000 words. The AI writes questions only on what the text says, spread over all of it. With a text you don't need to choose a subject or topic.
From a paper exam
The "From a paper exam" button is next to "Add a question with AI" (in an empty exam, next to "Create the exam with AI"). In the "Import a paper exam" window, choose up to 12 photos of the pages, in order, or one PDF, and press "Import the questions". The AI copies each question exactly as it is on the page, without rewording it: multiple choice, true/false, open questions and completion. The questions are added at the end of the exam. If the answers are marked on the page it takes them from there; if not, it solves the questions itself and tells you which ones to check. Add a picture, a graph or a table from the page later, in the editor.
Second sitting, adapted version, another language
Three buttons at the top of the studio make a new copy of the exam, as a private draft of yours. The original exam doesn't change.
- Second sitting: for each question the AI writes a parallel one that tests the same knowledge, at the same level and in the same format, with other numbers, names and details.
- Adapted version: the same questions and answers in plainer, clearer language, for students with accommodations. The AI adds no hints and takes away nothing the student needs to think about.
- Another language: the exam translated into the language you choose, such as Arabic, English or Russian. Numbers, formulas and the correct answers stay exactly as they are.
Before it starts, the window says how many questions will be rewritten and how many stay as they are, such as matching and grouped questions (and, in the adapted and translated versions, also questions with a picture, a table or a link, and questions that aren't yours). The questions are written one after another with a progress bar, and you can stop midway. At the end the copy opens in the studio; go over it before you publish.
A check before the exam goes out
The "Check" button at the top of the question list opens "Check the exam":
- Quick check shows at once, without AI: for example a question with no text, a multiple-choice question without a correct answer, an open question without a sample answer, a question that appears twice, and a correct answer that is almost always in the same place.
- A closer look with AI, when you press "Check with AI": the AI reads the exam like a careful colleague and looks for a wrong answer marked correct, two correct answers, ambiguous wording, a question that gives away another's answer, spelling mistakes and missing topics. Clicking the question in a note (such as "Question 3") opens it in the editor.
Exam blueprint
The "Blueprint" button, next to "Check", opens "Exam blueprint". "Make the blueprint with AI" sorts the questions into topics and levels of thinking (knowledge, understanding, application, higher-order thinking) and shows a table with the points and percentages. You can change any question's topic, level and points, and the table updates at once. Then print it or copy it.
How a question went before
In the question list, under a question students have already answered, you see its average in your earlier exams, such as "42% average (112)". The icon is red for a hard question, orange for a medium one and green for an easy one. At the bottom of the list there is also an Expected average for the whole exam, when enough of its questions have a history.
Tip: in the question list, a question the AI wrote is marked "AI" next to its type, and its own page says "Written by AI". Go over these questions before the exam goes out to students.