Exams

An exam is a multiple-choice questionnaire that the student takes in a lesson. Each question has one correct answer, and Cademí grades it automatically. Passing can open a module, open the certificate and give points.

The idea in one minute

• The exam belongs to the product, in the Exams tab. The student sees it only in a lesson.
• The attempt is each time the student takes the exam. It ends when the student submits all the answers or when the time runs out.
• Passing is what opens things: a module, the certificate, the points.

The most important rule: finishing the exam completes the lesson, also on a fail. A student with 100% progress can have failed. Only passing opens drip content, the exam-based certificate and the exam points.

How it works

An exam shows in a lesson when the lesson has the Format Exam and that exam selected. See Modules and lessons. The same exam can show in more than one lesson.

Score and passing

The score is the share of questions the student got right, from 0 to 100.

• With a minimum score (Require minimum score on): the student passes when the score is equal to or above the Minimum score to pass. The lesson page shows the score and whether the student passed or failed.
• With no minimum score: finishing the exam counts as passing for drip content, the certificate and the points. The score shows only if Show result to student is on.

Cademí keeps the minimum score with the result when the attempt ends. If you change the questions, the correct answer or the minimum score later, old results do not change. To assess those students again, remove the result and let them retake the exam.

Time limit

Time limit is a number of minutes, counted from the start of the attempt. With 0 or blank, there is no limit.

When the time runs out:

1. The attempt closes with the score of the answers given until then.
2. The lesson is completed.
3. That score decides if the student passed.

On an exam with no minimum score, the student sees "Did not finish within the time limit".

Retakes

The new attempt replaces the previous one. The score that counts is the score of the new attempt. To give another chance with retakes off, remove the result in the student's profile (below).

The cycle of an attempt, on an exam with a minimum score:

With no minimum score, finishing is passing, and there is no failed path. In both cases, Remove result in the student's profile sends the exam back to the start.

What the student sees during and after

In the Replies panel of the exam:

• Show the correct answer: after each confirmed question, shows the correct answer, also when the student got it wrong.
• Show whether the answer was correct: tells only right or wrong. It does not show the correct answer.
• Allow going back to the previous question: shows a button to review and change a confirmed answer, before the end.
• Show answer key to approved students: at the end, a student who passed sees the list of questions, with right and wrong answers.
• Also show to students who did not pass: a student who failed also sees that list. It works on its own, also with the previous switch off.

The answer key at the end shows only when the exam has a minimum score.

Step by step

Create the exam and its questions

1. Open the product in Content → Products.
2. Click the Exams tab.
3. Click New exam.
4. Fill in Exam title and click Create.

The exam screen opens with the window of the first question.

5. Fill in the Statement.
6. If you want, add a Question video (the full link) and a Question image (JPG or PNG up to 800kb).
7. In Answers, write at least two answers.
8. Mark the Correct answer. To add more answers, click Add answer.
9. Click Save and create another to go to the next question, or Save to close.

In the Questions tab, each question is a card with its number of answers. Expand all opens all the cards. The search filters by question or answer. Edit question and Delete question are on the card.

A deleted question goes to the Trash of the exam, and you can restore it. The next attempt uses only the active questions.

Configure the exam

In the Settings tab of the exam:

• With random selection on, each attempt gets the selected number of questions. The score counts only those questions.
• Shuffle answers changes only the order of the answers.

Click Save now in the footer bar. Nothing applies before you save.

Put the exam in a lesson

1. On the Lessons screen of the product, create or open a lesson in the correct module.
2. In Format, choose Exam.
3. Choose the exam.
4. Publish the lesson.

The student sees Start test in this lesson.

Use passing to open something

• A module or a lesson. In the Drip content tab, use the Passing an exam rule. The exam can belong to another product. See Drip content.
• The certificate. In the Certificate tab, in Available in, choose On passing an exam. See Certificates.

See and remove a student's result

In the student's profile, the Exams tab lists each exam the student took. Each row shows Date, Score, the number of attempts and the status: Passed, Failed or In progress.

• View answer sheet shows, question by question, the student's answer and whether it was right.
• Remove result deletes the result. The exam lesson goes back to not watched, Cademí removes the passing points and the student can retake the exam. A certificate already issued stays valid.

See Student profile. There is no manual grading and no score adjustment: the score is the score of the attempt.

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