Holding a test for your class

From questions to certificates: build a paper, choose how it starts, run it, and release results your students trust.

You need a class with students in it first. If you have none yet, see Starting a class. For an exam open to students beyond your class, see Running an open exam. For a walk through a demo class test, with pictures of every step, read How to hold a mock test on the blog.

In this guide (10)

The whole flow
1. Get your questions ready
2. Build the test
3. Give it to a class
4. While it runs
5. Results and the report
6. Certificates
Leaving the screen and appeals
The same test in two classes
Candidate list and messages

The whole flow

1QuestionsWrite, import or generate them into a vault
2Build the testMarking, sections, timer, instructions
3AssignTo a class or batch, and choose how it starts
4Run itStart, give more time, or end it
5ResultsRelease when you choose, with a report
6CertificatesParticipation and Merit, in your name

One paper can be given to any class or batch, as often as you like.

1. Get your questions ready

Teacher StudioQuestion Vaults

Keep your questions in vaults, for example one per chapter. Write them there, add ones from the quiz bank, load a file with Bulk Import, or let AI write them. Have a paper already? The AI can read it into the test, exactly as printed (Reading your question paper). One question can go into as many tests as you like.

Questions you write for tests are locked: students see them only inside the test, so nobody can practise them or see the answers beforehand. Read Questions and vaults for the details.

2. Build the test

Teacher StudioMock Tests

Start a new mock test
Give it a title, subject, level and exam. Choosing an exam such as JEE Main fills in its usual marking.
Set the time and marking
The minutes, the marks for a right answer and the marks lost for a wrong one (JEE Main and NEET use +4 and −1). Any question can carry its own marks.
Add sections, if you want them
For example Physics, Chemistry and Maths. You can give every section its own clock, as some online exams do.
Fill it from your vaults
Give the number of questions and the builder shows how many places are left. With AI access, Fill the places left with AI finishes it. In an exam's style, the time follows the number of questions at that exam's pace (JEE Main 2.4 minutes a question; NEET Physics 2 minutes, Chemistry 80 seconds and Biology about 33 seconds; to the nearest 5 minutes). If you add or remove questions later, the builder offers the matching time.
Write instructions and options
Anything students should read before they begin. You can also shuffle the options for each student.
Publish it, private
Keep it private if it is only for your class. A private test never releases its questions to the bank.

3. Give it to a class

On the test's page press Assign, pick the class (or one batch), add a due date and a note if you like, and choose how it starts.

9:0010:0011:0012:00

I'll start it
Waiting roomWriting
Students wait with the instructions on screen. You press Start now; everyone's time ends together.
At a set time
Writing
It starts by itself at 10:00. The instructions show from 9:55. Everyone ends at 11:00.
Within a window
Window open
Asha
Ravi
Open from 9:00 to 12:00. Each student gets the full 60 minutes from the moment they begin.
Any time
Open whenever
Practice. No start or end; the test's own timer still runs for each attempt.

Waiting, instructions on screen Writing (a 60-minute test) Late joiners may still come in (10 minutes by default)

Start	Choose it when	What students see
I'll start it	You are with the class, in a room or a live session.	A waiting room with the instructions, until you press Start now.
At a set time	The test is at a fixed hour and you may not be there.	A countdown. Instructions from 5 minutes before.
Within a window	Students have different timetables.	The full test time from the moment each one begins.
Any time	It is practice.	The test, open whenever they like.

I'll start it
Choose it when
You are with the class, in a room or a live session.
What students see
A waiting room with the instructions, until you press Start now.
At a set time
Choose it when
The test is at a fixed hour and you may not be there.
What students see
A countdown. Instructions from 5 minutes before.
Within a window
Choose it when
Students have different timetables.
What students see
The full test time from the moment each one begins.
Any time
Choose it when
It is practice.
What students see
The test, open whenever they like.

You also choose how many attempts each student gets, and when they see their results: right after submitting, once the test ends, or when you press Release results now.

Tip

Hold results until the test ends. Then a student who finishes early cannot pass the answers on.

Hidden until it starts

Until a class test starts, students see that a test is coming and when, but not its name, its page or its questions, even if it is a published test. Nobody can look it up early.

4. While it runs

Your class pageAssigned Work

Start now starts an "I'll start it" test for everyone at once.
More time to write (5 to 60 minutes): students already writing see their clock change.
More time to start: keep a window open longer, or let latecomers join.
End now closes the test for everyone.

When anyone's time is over, our server submits the answers they saved, even if they closed the page or lost their connection.

5. Results and the report

Under Assigned Work, each test has Release results and Results, report & certificates. The report shows every question with how many got it right, partly right, wrong or skipped, and how many chose each option, so you can see which wrong option misled them.

A test counts as done for an assignment only if it was submitted after you assigned it, so an older score is not carried over. Students see their rank in the class (or batch) on the class page. When the results are out, each student's wrong answers go into their My mistakes for practice, except questions you locked in the paper.

Found a wrong answer in the key? Correct the question and every attempt with it is marked again. See Correcting an answer.

6. Certificates

Turn them on
On the class test's page, tick Give certificates for this test. You can do this before the test, after it, or once the results are out.
Issue them
Students get theirs from their result page. Once the results are out, Issue certificates to everyone now gives everyone theirs at once.
Check the list
The same box lists every certificate of the test with the student's place, to open or print.

Everyone who took it gets a Certificate of Participation, and the top tenth (at least the top 3) a Certificate of Merit, with marks and place. They are issued in your name, or your approved organisation's.

If results change later

Clear or disqualify someone, correct an answer, rename the class or test, or change the name they are issued in, and the certificates that changed are issued again within a few minutes. The students are told, and the old ones stay on the site marked as replaced.

Leaving the screen and appeals

Every time a student leaves the test window, it is counted and timed. Under Leaving the exam screen and appeals on the class test's page you choose:

whether attempts over a limit are held automatically, or only when you disqualify someone;
how long a held student has to appeal.

Held attempts get no place or certificate until you clear them. Appeals wait for you in the same place, each with the student's reason. Accept it or turn it down, with a reply if you like.

The same test in two classes

A class test opens only for the class, or the batch, it is given to. A student in another class cannot sit it from a shared link. To let a second class sit it, press Assign again and pick that class. Each class gets its own sitting, with its own times, ranks and certificates.

Some students may be in both classes. Each student's first sitting of the paper counts. If they sit it again in the other class, that sitting is practice for them: they see their score, but they get no place in that class's ranks, no leaderboard points and no certificate there. Their first result, place and certificate stand.

	First sitting	A later sitting of the same paper
Score and answers	Yes	Yes
Place in the class's ranks	Yes	No
Leaderboard points	Yes	No
Certificate	Yes, if the test gives them	No

Score and answers
First sitting
Yes
A later sitting of the same paper
Yes
Place in the class's ranks
First sitting
Yes
A later sitting of the same paper
No
Leaderboard points
First sitting
Yes
A later sitting of the same paper
No
Certificate
First sitting
Yes, if the test gives them
A later sitting of the same paper
No

Your live list of students marks such a sitting Repeat: practice, and the candidate list says "repeat (practice)". The same rule holds for an open exam of a paper the student sat in class, and for a test you give twice to one class. A practice attempt on a public paper does not count as a first sitting.

Candidate list and messages

The class test's page has a candidate list to download: name, member ID, marks, place, time and screen leaves. The member ID tells apart two students with the same name.

A new class test and a class announcement reach your students as a notice and by email. For a wider exam with registrations, messages and an announcements board, use an open exam.

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