In this spring semester, you opened a new course and now you want to have a test to evaluate how students are doing and get them prepared for the mid-semester research project. You will use Examena to manually create the mid-semester exam paper for this new course.
You can create the paper by the following steps:
1. On the Bank page, click Create paper.
2. Enter a paper name and select a course.
3. Click Add section, enter a name and optional description, and click Save to add the section to the paper.
4. You can arrange questions to sections in the paper. You can add new questions here, or you can create or import all your questions to question bank at first and then add them here.
5. After questions are added to a section, you can click the Edit section button in the upper-right corner of the section, and choose whether to enable optional question or question pool.
•With optional question enabled, you can specify the number of questions required to be answered in this section and the marks for each question. The section marks will be automatically calculated.
•With question pool enabled, you can specify the number of questions that will be randomly selected from the pool and displayed for candidates in this section, as well as the marks for each question. Refer to the How to enable question pool? section below for details.
*Note: Either optional question or question pool can be enabled for a section.
6. Click Exam settings and configure the following settings:
•Click Randomise questions, and select Randomise questions in the selected sections from the Randomise questions drop-down list to randomise questions in the paper.
Select the sections where the questions you want to randomise for candidates from the Sections for randomisation drop-down list.
Click Save to save the question randomisation settings.
•Click Randomise choices, and select Yes or No to enable or disable choice randomisation. Click Apply to apply this setting to the new choice questions that are added to the paper later, or click Apply to all to apply this setting to all choice questions in the paper.
Click Additional marks to configure the additional marks for the paper. A comment can be added to provide details about the additional marks. Click Save to save the additional marks for the paper.
•Click Marking guide to configure the marking guide to provide guidance on the marking. Click Save to save the marking guide for the paper.
•Click Hide sections to hide sections from the paper. Sections in the paper will be deleted and the randomisation of questions will be automatically disabled.
If sections are hidden from the paper, you can click Show sections to show sections.
7. You can enter additional information as the appendix and click the insert file button of the rich text editor to attach reference files.
8. You can save this paper as draft for further editing, or you can click Complete to finish the paper directly. You can also preview the exam paper before clicking Complete.
With question pool enabled for a section, all questions in this section will be considered as a pool. You can define the number of questions that will be randomly selected from the pool and displayed to candidates in this section, and the marks for each question. The section marks and paper total marks will be automatically calculated.
Complete the following steps to enable question pool for a section:
1. In a paper, locate the section for which you want to enable question pool, and click the Edit button in the upper-right corner.
2. Click the toggle button next to Enable question pool, and configure the following settings.
•Number of questions displayed to candidates – Set the number of questions that will be randomly selected from the pool and displayed for candidates in this section. Make sure this number is smaller or equals to the total number of questions in the section.
•Marks for each question – Set the marks for each question.
3. Click Save to save the question pool settings.