Questions and vaults

Teacher StudioQuestion Vaults

A vault is your own private collection of questions, for example one per topic or per exam. You write a question once and pull it into as many tests as you like.

• Add questions from the public quiz bank, or save all of a test's questions into a vault.
• Each question shows the tests it is used in.
• In the test builder, give the number of questions and it shows how many places are left.

A question you write for tests starts locked. Students see it only inside a test, so nobody can practise it or see its answer beforehand. It can be released to the public quiz bank later, when every published test that holds it allows.

• Public, default

  Its questions are released

  7 days after the test is published

  Set on

  The test's page

• Public, "when published"

  Its questions are released

  As soon as the test is published

  Set on

  The test's page

• Public, "never"

  Its questions are released

  Never through this test

  Set on

  The test's page

• Private (class only)

  Its questions are released

  Never

  Set on

  Always

• Assigned to a class or set as a group challenge

  Its questions are released

  Not before the last due date or deadline

  Set on

  Always

• Used in an open exam

  Its questions are released

  Not before its results are out

  Set on

  Always

• One correct option. The usual multiple choice.
• Several correct options. All and only the right ones earn full marks; some right ones and no wrong one earn a share; any wrong one costs the penalty.
• Type a number. Give the answer and the difference you accept (the tolerance).

Questions and options can carry pictures. For maths, press Equation beside any question, option or explanation box: build it with buttons or the maths keyboard, no LaTeX needed. Maths you typed plainly, such as v^2 = u^2 + 2as, can be selected and tidied with the same button. (Behind it, maths is kept between dollar signs, for example $v = u + at$.)

With AI access, Write with AI fills a vault and Fill the places left with AI finishes a test (and can keep the new questions in a vault too). The AI is shown the questions you already have, and a question too close to one of yours is not saved.

It can draw simple diagrams (a circuit, a ray diagram, forces, a graph) and, from a PDF you attach, copy a figure when the question is kept exactly as in the file. Every picture it adds is marked "please check". See AI help for teachers.

Teachers and institutes, once turned on for themA test's question list: Read a question paper

Have the paper as a PDF, a Word file or photos of the pages? The AI copies every question into the test exactly as printed: the text, the options in their order, the pictures cut from the paper, and your own solutions. The answer is always yours: it is taken from your paper (its answer key, an "Ans." line, or a tick, circle, bold or highlight on an option), and you can change it at any time. Where the paper gives no answer, none is chosen: you choose it in the question list (the AI can show a suggestion beside it if you ask, but never chooses for you). Where the paper has no solution, the AI writes a suggested explanation, marked for you to check.

1. Choose the paper

   A PDF reads best. Photos: one page each, flat and in good light. A Word file: equations made with Word's own equation tool are read; for MathType equations, save it as a PDF first.

2. Say what each page holds

   Questions, the answer key and solutions, or Skip (a cover or instructions page). The first guess is made for you.

3. Read a sample, then the rest

   Read the answers and the first pages to see how it reads, then the rest. You can stop at any time.

4. Check, then publish

   Each question lands in the list, locked like every test question. Choose any answer the paper does not give, compare each question with the paper, fix anything, and press I checked it: looks right. A test cannot be published while a question has no answer.

Before you publish a test, or send an exam for approval, you tick a declaration: that you have reviewed every question and its answer, and that you are responsible for any error in them and for its consequences. The test publishes only after it is recorded.

Each declaration is kept with the date and time, your account, IP address and browser, and a copy of every question and answer as they were. Find them at the foot of the test's page: View or print (print it, or save it as a PDF) and Download.

Every place you write or check a question shows it whole, as students will see it, with the right answer marked and the explanation under it: the question form, the test builder (Show every question with its answer, or one at a time) and the Bulk Import review (Read them all with answers).

Admins, and teachers given accessBulk Import

1. Prepare a JSON file

   Problems, or questions grouped into question sets and mock tests. A question can name its section, be a numerical one, and go straight into a vault with vault (it is then locked).

2. Upload and review

   Everything goes to a review queue first. Check and edit each item. Questions very like ones you already have are marked.

3. Publish

   Question sets and mock tests are created as drafts. Open each one, check it, set its visibility and publish.

Editing a question that a published test uses saves a new version. The live test keeps the old one, so the paper never changes under students who are writing it.

Correcting a question's answer key is different: every attempt with that question, in any test, is marked again, and ranks and certificates follow.