Exams

The online-exam list and the full Create-Exam builder — every Settings field, scheduling option and proctoring toggle, plus the live monitor.

What this screen shows

The Exams tab lists every online exam with its schedule window, status (draft, published, active, completed), attempt count and proctoring state. You can switch between Grid, List and Calendar views, filter by status tab, search, and organise exams into folders. Each card carries quick actions — open, edit, assign, duplicate, results and (while an exam runs) the live monitor. Students see only the exams assigned to them, with a Start button when the window is open.

Controls on the exam list

Opens the scope screen — Board, Class, Subjects and the chapters (or individual topics) this exam covers — and then hands you on to the Create-Exam builder. See Choosing the scope below.

Choosing the scope (before the builder)

New exam does not drop you straight into the builder. It opens the scope screen first — the same screen Paper Canva, Rank Booster and OMR now use — where you say exactly which syllabus this exam is drawn from. Everything after that obeys your answer: in the builder, the question library and the Random / Blueprint auto-pick all draw from the chapters you ticked and nothing else, so you cannot accidentally put a Class 11 question into a Class 12 paper. The screen has two parts. At the top, Board, Class and Subjects (you may pick more than one subject) plus a Search chapters box. Below that, a Chapters panel lists the chapters for each subject you chose, each with the number of questions available in the bank shown in brackets — a chapter with none is greyed out and cannot be ticked.

Click New exam. Pick a Board, then a Class, then one or more Subjects — each choice narrows the next. The chapter list appears underneath as soon as a subject is chosen.

Tick the chapters this exam covers. Select all takes the whole list (its bracketed figure is the total questions you would be picking up); the Search chapters box filters the grid while leaving anything you have already ticked ticked. Want to mix syllabuses? Click Add another scope and fill in a second Board / Class / Subjects block — for example CBSE Class 12 Mathematics in the first block and JEE Main Mathematics in the second. You can stack up to four blocks, and each has its own Collapse and Remove controls.

Need only part of a chapter? Click the small chevron on a chapter card to open its topic checklist and tick just the topics you want. The chapter checkbox turns into a dash to show it is partly selected, and its count reads like "12 of 40".

Check the summary line along the bottom — it counts your scopes, subjects, chapters, topics and the questions in scope — then click Continue to exam builder.

Required. Pick several to build a multi-subject exam — each gets its own chapter list, headed by the subject name and a "picked / total" count.

Filters the chapter grid as you type. It is only a view filter: chapters you already ticked stay ticked even while hidden, and Select all then applies to the chapters currently visible.

Tick to include the whole chapter. The bracketed number is how many questions the bank has for it; chapters with none are dimmed and unpickable ("No questions yet").

The chevron on a chapter card opens its topic checklist — each topic with its own question count. Tick a few and the chapter is narrowed: only those topics are in scope, the checkbox shows a dash instead of a tick, and the count reads "12 of 40". Untick every topic and you are back to the whole chapter.

Topics with nothing in the bank are left out of the checklist entirely. If a chapter has none at all you see "No topics with questions in this chapter." — tick the chapter as a whole instead.

Takes or clears every visible chapter in that list. The figure beside it is the total questions in those chapters, so you can size the pool before you commit.

Each subject shows a Full syllabus list ("all sources"), and below it a separate list per book or source ("this source only"). Ticking under Full syllabus draws from every source; ticking under a named source restricts the exam to that book.

Adds a second (third, fourth) Board / Class / Subjects block so one exam can span syllabuses. It stays greyed out until the block you are on is complete, and there is a ceiling of four scopes per exam.

On the extra blocks: fold one away to tidy the screen, or drop it entirely. An added-but-unfinished block holds up the Continue button — finish it or remove it.

The bottom strip is a running tally — "2 scopes · 3 subjects · 12 chapters · 8 topics · 1,240 questions in scope". Glance at it before you continue: if the question count looks thin for the exam you have in mind, widen the chapters now rather than discovering it in the builder. The scope is not just a starting filter — it is carried with the exam. In the Questions view, the library sidebar and the Random / Blueprint auto-pick all stay clamped to it, so every question you can reach genuinely belongs to the syllabus you picked. Got it wrong, or need to widen it later? Change exam scope in the builder reopens this same screen without losing the questions and settings you have already put in.

The builder — Settings vs Questions

The Create-Exam builder has two top views — Settings and Questions — plus a Preview button and an auto-saving draft (a "Draft auto-saved" badge and a resume banner if you leave and come back). Settings is a stack of collapsible groups; each group summarises its current state in its header.

Settings → General & Timing

Apply a one-click pattern — JEE Main, JEE Advanced, NEET, CUET, CBSE Term or Custom — or browse the full exam-template library. Beyond filling in duration and marking, the pattern also decides which official percentile formula the results are scored with; CBSE Term and Custom use the general one.

Settings → Grade, behaviour & scoring

How many times a student may attempt; pair with Allow resume to let them continue an interrupted attempt. A counting selector beside it sets which attempt becomes the result — Highest (default), Latest or First — and the teacher Results page carries a matching Counting switch.

Settings → Proctoring & browser security

Turn on the Enable Proctoring master switch to reveal the checks below. Students must grant the relevant camera / screen permissions before they can start, so warn them about the hardware they need.

Webcam and screen sharing do more than leave snapshots behind: while the exam runs you can watch those feeds as they happen in the invigilation monitor, each tile carrying a red pulsing Live badge. Open a student and you get their Live feeds side by side — Camera and Screen. If a feed cannot be established (the student is on an older browser, has denied permission, or the connection is poor) the tile quietly falls back to that student’s most recent snapshot, and their full snapshot history is still there in the detail panel — so you are never left with a blank square. Video is watched, not listened to: audio is not played back to you, though audio events still land in the violations feed.

Settings → Restrictions & instructions

By default a share link works for anyone who opens it — no account needed. What the start screen shows depends on who is looking. A signed-in student sees their own name and email with "Results will be saved to your account." A guest instead gets Your details (optional) with a Your name and Email (for results) field, so their result still has something to attach to. Leave these blank and the attempt runs anyway. If you need results tied to real students, assign the exam and use Restrict to students or an Access code rather than relying on the guest fields.

A few exams are set to need an account before anyone can begin. On those, a signed-out visitor who opens the link is told "This exam requires you to sign in before starting." and has to sign in first — signing in and reopening the link is all that is needed.

Footer publish actions & the live monitor

The Live proctoring monitor opens as a wall of student tiles — each showing that student’s webcam live where proctoring is on, or their latest snapshot where it is not. Choose 4, 9, 16 or 25 tiles per screen, or switch to the list view.

Live grid of every in-progress attempt, refreshing on its own — each tile carries the student’s live webcam view with a Live badge, their remaining time, how many questions they have answered and their risk level. Inside a student’s panel, their Camera and Screen play in real time. Where no live feed is available the view falls back to the most recent snapshot instead, so the tile is never blank.

End and submit a student’s attempt remotely, after a confirm. A player that is still open picks this up on its next check-in — so allow up to about 15 seconds before the student is told "Your exam has been submitted by the invigilator." and taken to their result. It is not instant; do not click twice if nothing happens straight away.

Publishing consumes paper credits (about one per 50 questions). A caution banner appears at one credit left, and an insufficient-credits modal blocks publish if you run out.

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