Online Exam

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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 bluepint 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 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 shuffles questions and options within the section for each student while taking online tests. It means all students will get the same questions & options but in a different order. This will eliminate the chances of cheating during online exams. Kindly note that the order of questions and options on the result page will be common for all the students. So, your students will find the questions and options in a different order on the result page as compared to the same found while attempting the test. But rest assured, it is marked the same 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 option to add questions to blueprint one by one. Express: We will show you chapter list to choose 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 internal choice within sections like attempt any 5 questions out of given 10 questions from a particular section, you should click on 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 impliment common rule for all the questions. For example 25% negative marking means each and every question will have 25% nagative marking. (b) Section Wise Negative marking: It means, each section will have 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 righ square icon to select 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 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 then the quiz duration. For example if the quiz duration in 60 minutes, there must be a gap of 60 minutes between quiz start and end time. To keep the test live for loger time, you can keep gap of 2-3 day or even more but not longer then your package expiry date.
   (b) Start-time can not be less than current time. Means, if current time is November 10, 2016 10:45 PM, your start time can not be earlier than it. But you can put any future time upto 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 get the option to change date and time.
4. Result Date and Time: There are four options. Choose any one of them as per your requirement.
   (a) When quiz ends for all: It means, your students will get the result at quiz end date-time.
   (b) Let me decide a date: You can pick a date to declare the result. It can be any date after quiz end date & time.
   (c) I will decide later: You can leave it for now and decide a result date later on. Also, if you don’t want to show result to your students, you can choose this option.
   (d) When student submits the test: If you want your student to see the results immediately after sumitting the test, you should use this option. The main drawback of this option is that if you are sharing 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

Once the test is created, go to MY PAPERS and click on ACTIONS below the paper name and then click on share. After that, you will get two options: (a) Within Batch: If you have already create 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 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 studuents without any batch, simply select without batch option and then click Copy Link or click WhatsApp (if doing in mobile phone), and share the same with your students via email, SMS or WhatsApp.

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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 impletmented 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 and section wise. You will also get the option to print the result on the top right corner of the page and download 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 amount 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.