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Exams are built with an AI assistant rather than a blank form — you describe what you need, and it drafts the questions for you to review.

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Create an exam

  1. Go to Online Exams in the sidebar.
  2. If you don’t have any exams yet, click Create with AI — or go straight to the AI Exam assistant.
  3. In the assistant, tell it what the exam should cover — a topic, a chapter, or a textbook/document you’ve shared with it — plus how many questions and which question types you want (multiple choice, true/false, short answer, essay, and a few others).
  4. The assistant generates a full set of questions. Review them — edit wording, fix answer keys, adjust point values, reorder, or delete anything that isn’t right.
  5. Save. The exam is created as a draft — it isn’t visible to students yet.

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Publish it to a class

A draft exam needs two more things before students can take it:
  1. Assign it to one or more classes — only students actively enrolled in an assigned class can see and take the exam.
  2. Publish it — change its status from Draft to Published from the exam’s edit page.
You can preview exactly what a student will see before publishing, from the exam’s Preview action.

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Grading

  • Multiple choice, true/false, numeric, and matching questions are graded automatically the moment a student submits.
  • Short answer and essay questions are graded by AI in the background, usually within a few minutes of submission — you don’t need to grade these by hand. Until grading finishes, the attempt shows as pending.

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Reusing content

If you’ve already generated an exam covering similar material, you don’t need to start from scratch — duplicate it and adjust, or ask the AI assistant to build on an existing set of questions instead of generating an entirely new one.

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What’s next

Once students have taken the exam, see how each of them did from their profile — see Grading & Tracking Progress.