Exams ‐ Create and configure

This page helps you create exams and configure their settings.

Create an exam

• Log in: Log in with a user account with CourseOrExamCreator level permissions on some organization
• Go to organization front page: Go to the organization page your course is on. All organizations are listed on this page.
• Create exam: Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the list of exams. Under the heading Exams, click the create button (see image below). If you do not see the Create button, it means that you do not have the required permission to create exams in the organization. In such a case, please contact MOOC Center staff.

• Configure exam: Set basic information for your exam (see image below for fields).

• Name: Enter a descriptive title for your exam. Include the name of the course and a reference to the time frame of the exam.
• Starts at: Set the time when your exam will open to students.
• Ends at: Set the end time for your exam. After this, students can no longer access the exam. Students must start their exam attempt between the start and end time.
• Time in minutes: Set the amount minutes students can work on the exam after they open it.
• Grade exam manually: Select this option if you want to grade exercise submissions manually. See section Exam grading below for more information.
• Related courses can be completed automatically: Check this option if you want students to receive an automatic completion for the course based on points received in the exam.
• Minimum points to pass: Set the number of points required to pass the course.
• Duplicate: Check this option if you want to use a previous exam as the templete for your new exam. The exercises and instructions of the old exam will be copied to the new exam. Use the dropdown below this option to select which exam to use as the base for copying.

Manage your exam

• Go to exam manage page: Find your exam in the exam list on the organization page. Click on the Manage link below the exam title.

Manage your exam (see image below)

• Manage page: Click this link to edit your exam content. You can edit your exam page like any other content page in the system. This page includes the actual exercises/assignments of your exam. Add the exam exercises here. Use slides to set up a random questions. For example, Exercise 1 has Slides 1, 2, 3. Once a student starts an exam attempt, one of these Slides is randomly assigned to the student to answer.
• Manage permissions: Give access to exam admin staff.
• Edit exam instructions: This instruction page is displayed to students before they begin working on the actual exam. See section Create instructions for students of this page for more information and tips. Here it is good to tell the students: What kind of exercises are in the exam. How much time the students have to complete the exam once they start.
• Export points as CSV: Download a CSV file that shows how many points each student who has attempted the exam has received from each exercise.
• Export submissions as CSV: Download every student's exercise answer submissions as CSV file.
• Edit exam: Edit exam details such as start time, end time, duration.

Connect your exam to course:

• What and why?: This step creates a connection between the exam and your course. If exam is not connected to course, it is not possible to prevent students from taking the exam before they have completed enough exercises on the course. It is also impossible for students to receive completions for the MOOC automatically based on the exam.

• Copy the last part of the url in editor view of your course (see image below)

• Paste the url into the Course id field in the exam manage page. You will then see that your exam has been linked to the course (see image below).

Exam grading

Exam grading is either automatic or manually done by teacher. By default exam answer submissions are graded automatically - this works for multiple-choice exercises and others where students do not write longer answers themselves.

Automatic grading

• All answer submissions are automatically graded. Students will receive an automatic completion for the MOOC course after the exam period is over if the following conditions are met:

1. Related courses can be completed automatically is enabled and number of points required is set in exam settings
2. Course is connected to the MOOC material (see section manage your exam on this page)
3. Student receives enough points to pass.

Manual grading

Manual grading is enabled with the Grade exam manually checkbox while editing answer options.

• 1. In the exams list click the Manage link.
• 2. Select Grading

• 3. In the manual grading view, you see a list of all exercises. Click on the Grade button next to any question to start grading submissions for the exercise.

• 4. Under each exercise, you will see a list of all exercise answer submissions. Click Grade.

• 5. Enter score, feedback, and click Submit.

• 6. Finally, in the manual grading overview, publish grades to students. Students will not be able to see their score until you publish grades.

NOTE! Remember to generate a manual completion for all students who passed the exam. See Manually adding completions

Create instructions for students

Exam instructions are shown to students before they start their exam attempt and the timer starts to run.

How create exam instructions

1. In the exams list click the Manage link.
2. Select Edit exam instructions
3. Write the instructions and click save.

Example instructions

In the exam you complete multiple choice questions similar to the ones answered during the course. Use the submit button to save your answer to each exercise question. You can use the 'End exam' button to finish your exam attempt. However, using the 'End exam' button is not required. It is enough to submit each answer before the exam attempt time ends. If you use the 'End exam' button, you cannot continue to answer exam questions even if you have time left. You are allowed to use the course material and other sources of information while answering the questions. Do not use LLMs (including tools like ChatGPT).

Add a link to the exam in your course material

1. Go to the list of all exams.
2. Click the name of the exam you just created.

3. Copy the exam URL from your browsers address bar.

4. Embed / paste the exam link in your course material so that students can access the exam.