Online Exam - Admin

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Step 1: Create a New Paper

1. Navigate to Exams: Go to the “Exams” section.
2. Select ‘Create Paper’: Click on the ‘Create Paper’ button. New users must add the institute details there to proceed.

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Step 2: Select Class and Subject

Choose Class and Subject: Click on the**“Select” **button to pick the class and subject for your test paper.

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Step 3: Specify Course and Subject

1. Module Selection: Choose from available modules (e.g., CBSE, ICSE).
2. Select Course: Choose the relevant course for the test.
3. Competitive Exams: If applicable, select the specific exam type and whether to create a single or multiple-subject paper.

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Step 4: Configure Test Paper Settings

1. Source Selection: Choose your question source as All Questions (only for premium users). If you are not getting this option, you need to Buy Subscription to access this feature.
2. Test Paper Type: Here, you have two choices: Objective and Subjective. We recommend choosing the Online Test - Objective as it is auto-evaluated and a commonly used format.
   • Online Test - Objective (Link): This is an online test with only objective questions, such as MCQ, ARQ, T/F, Fill-ups and One-word answers. The result will be automatically generated.
   • Online Test - Subjective (Link): This is an online test including both subjective and objective questions. Here, the objective part will be evaluated automatically and the teacher will evaluate the subjective part. Students will upload question-wise images of the solutions.
3. Blueprint Mode: Choose the blueprint as per your requirement. Usually, teachers use Express mode or Automated mode here. In the blueprint mode section, you have Manual, Express, Dynamic, Automated, Previous Year Paper and I will add Question options. Manual: You can add questions one by one from each chapter. Suitable if too much customization is required. Express: You can add questions altogether from each chapter. Suitable if less customization is required. Dynamic: Select the chapters, and the paper will be generated automatically using a prefilled blueprint. The same blueprint can be reused with different chapters, but chapter-wise weightage is almost evenly distributed. Automated: The question paper will be generated automatically based on a predefined blueprint, including specified chapters and chapter-wise weightage. However, you can use the “Customize this Blueprint” option to make modifications as needed. I Will Add Questions: You will add your own questions or select questions from your own question bank.

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Step 5: Customize Paper Details

1. Select Header and Footer: You can select the PDF header that you have already added there. You can also modify your logo and header/footer text by clicking the edit header link.
2. Test Paper Name: Enter a name for your question paper, such as “Half Yearly Exam,” “Periodic Test - 1,” or “Annual Examination.”
3. Time Allowed: Enter the duration for the online test.
4. Shuffle Questions & Options: This feature randomizes the order of questions and answer options within a section for each student during an online test. All students receive the same questions and options, but arranged differently, which helps minimize the chances of cheating. Please note that the order of questions and options shown on the result page is the same for all students. As a result, students may see a different sequence on the result page than what they encountered during the test. However, the evaluation remains accurate, and responses are marked exactly as selected by the student
5. General Instructions: Some default instructions are provided in Dynamic Mode. You can edit or delete them as needed.
6. Accept the Terms of Use checkbox and proceed by clicking Next.

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Step 6: Question Selection

Based on the blueprint mode you selected, you will get the options on this page. Here are the examples: Manual: You will get the option to add questions to the blueprint one by one. Express: We will show you the chapter list to choose the number of questions. Dynamic: Just select the chapters. Automated: This intermediate screen will not appear and you will get questions directly. I Will Add Questions: You will have to add your own questions.

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Step 7: Final Review and Generation

Click on Refresh to proceed. You will get a question paper with questions selected from our database. You can review them and then proceed to generate the paper. All the changes made in Step 3 are saved automatically. If you leave the paper at this step and later return by clicking RESUME under MY PAPERS, all your previous changes will be restored automatically.

1. Edit Section Name: If needed, click the edit icon next to the section name to change or update the section title.
2. Move Whole Section Up or Down: Although it is rarely required in Dynamic mode yet you can use this option by clicking the down or up arrow placed beside the section name.
3. Replace Question: If you find a question that isn’t relevant, click the Action button below it and select Replace Question. You’ll see up to 30 alternative questions across 3 pages. Choose the one you prefer to replace the current question.
4. Replace with My Question: If you’ve already added your own questions in the test generator, click Replace with My Questions to choose a question from your personal list for replacement.
5. Move Question Up or Down: If you would like to move a question up or down, click or ACTIONS, then click move up or move down to change the placement of the question.
6. Edit Question: If you want to add your own question instead of the one provided, click ACTIONS and then select Edit Question. You can delete the existing question text and enter your own, or simply modify it as needed. You can also edit the options and solution from the same window.
7. Edit Marks: If required, you can click on ACTIONS, then click Edit Marks to change the marks.
8. Edit Testpaper Details: On this screen, you can also change the question paper name, time allowed and general instructions.
9. Print Preview: Once the paper is generated, you won’t be able to edit any questions in the PDF file. That’s why Step 3 includes a very useful feature — Print Preview. Click the Print Preview button at the top right, then select PRINT, and save the file as a PDF. You can share this draft with your school examination in-charge or the concerned person for review. After receiving their feedback, return to this page, make the suggested changes, and finally click Continue to create the final quiz link.

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Advance Test Options:

1. Add internal Choice within Section: If you want to give an internal choice within sections, like attempt any 5 questions out of the given 10 questions from a particular section, you should click on the enable button there and update the number of questions to be attempted. Leave blank if you want the student to attempt all questions from any section. You must change the overall marks accordingly.
2. Negative Marking: To enable negative marking, use this option. You will get different formats as below: (a) Overall Negative Marking: It means you can implement a common rule for all the questions. For example, 25% negative marking means each and every question will have 25% negative marking. (b) Section-wise Negative marking: It means, each section will have a different rule. Like section A will have 25% negative marking and section B will have no negative marking and so on. (c) Question Type-Wise Negative Marking: If you would like to have different rules for each question type, you should select this option. For example, MCQs can be under 33% negative marking, MRQs (multiple correct) can have 50% negative marking, Numericals can have NO negative marking and Matching type may have any other rule.
3. Continue: Click ‘Continue’ to finalise your online test.

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Step 8: Online Test and Result Date - Time

1. Quiz Start Date-Time: This is the date and time when the online test will start. You can click on the right square icon to select the date and time.
2. Quiz End Date-Time: This is the date and time when the online test will end for all. It is not necessary to end the quiz exactly after the duration is over.
3. Important Note: Here are some very important points to note:
   (a) The gap between start-time and end-time can not be less than the quiz duration. For example, if the quiz duration is 60 minutes, there must be a gap of 60 minutes between the quiz start and end time. To keep the test live for a longer time, you can keep a gap of 2-3 days or even more, but not longer than your package expiry date.
   (b) Start-time can not be less than the current time. It means, if the current time is November 10, 2016, 10:45 PM, your start time can not be earlier than that. But you can put any future time up to your package expiry date.
   (c) You can edit the date and time of the test under MY PAPERS till the test actually starts. But once the test is started, you will get the option to change the date and time.
4. Result Date and Time: There are four options. Choose any one of them as per your requirement.
   (a) When the quiz ends for all: It means your students will get the result at the quiz end date and time.
   (b) Let me decide a date: You can pick a date to declare the result. It can be any date after the quiz end date & time.
   (c) I will decide later: You can leave it for now and decide on a result date later. Also, if you don’t want to show results to your students, you can choose this option.
   (d) When the student submits the test: If you want your student to see the results immediately after submitting the test, you should use this option. The main drawback of this option is that if you are sharing the same test with multiple student who knows each other, they can share the answer key.
5. After that, click on Create Quiz to proceed.

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Step 9: Share Online Test

There are two ways to share the online test with your students:
(a) Share using Normal Browser
(b) Share using Safe Exam Browser

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(a) Share on Normal Browser

Once the test is created, go to ‘My Papers’ and click on ‘Actions’ below the paper name, then click on ‘Share’. After that, you will get two options: (a) Within Batch: If you have already created batches, just select this option and tick the batch name and save. You can share the same test with multiple batches, too. Now your students will open the Examin8 App or https://web.examin8.com to access and attempt this online test.
(B) Without Batch: If you want to share the quiz link with your students without any batch, simply select without batch option and then click Copy Link or click WhatsApp (if doing on a mobile phone), and share the same with your students via email, SMS or WhatsApp.

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(b) Share on Safe Exam Browser

In short, Safe Exam Browser is very safe and secure as compared to a normal browser (Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc) Once the test is created, go to ‘My Papers’ and click on ‘Actions’ below the paper name, then click on Generate Safe Exam Browser (SEB) File. It is a one-time task. As soon as the SEB file is generated, you will get the option to share it. Now, click on the Actions button again and then click Share on Safe Exam Browser. The next step is to share within the Batch or without the Batch. Click the checkbox “Use SEB (Safe Exam Browser) Mode and select your batch. If doing without a batch, click the checkbox and click Copy Link there.

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Step 10: Check Result and Download as PDF & CSV

Once the test is over, your students will get the result as per the settings implemented by you. However, you can get the result automatically by clicking on ACTIONS, then RESULT. Here, you can get the result in List view, Table view, batch-wise wise and section-wise. You will also get the option to print the result on the top right corner of the page and download the result rank-wise and section-wise in the middle right of the page. Bonus Marks: To give bonus marks in an Examin8 online test, use the “Bonus Marks” feature in the Test Generator before processing the marks. You can award marks for incorrect questions to all students who attempted them. Click “Apply Bonus Marks,” select the incorrect questions, enter the bonus marks, and then click “Process Marks” to apply them, as detailed in this YouTube video.  Steps to award bonus marks

1. Access the test results: After the test is taken, go to the result screen in the Test Generator.
2. Initiate bonus marks: Find and click on the “Bonus Marks” option.
3. Select questions: Choose the questions that were incorrect or had multiple correct answers.
4. Enter marks: Input the number of bonus marks you want to award for each question.
5. Process marks: Click on “Process Marks” to apply the bonus marks. Be cautious, as you cannot make changes after this step. 

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Online test - Student Interface

Let’s take a look at how your students will attempt the online test and receive their results automatically. You can also share the tutorial below with your students to help them understand the entire process clearly and in detail.

Online Test - Student Portal

Visit this tutorial to understand the Online Test student interface.