Exams
Place a quiz inside course content as a graded exam, and give learners a 'My Exams' list to find and take their assessments.
An exam is a quiz placed inside your course content as a graded assessment. Learners reach it where it sits in the lessons, take it, and the result flows into their progress and grade. This page covers how exams appear and what learners do with them.
Adding an exam to a course
- Build the quiz first — see Creating quizzes.
- In your course content, add the quiz as an assessment in the section where it belongs.
- Set its rules — attempts, timer, proctoring, and so on — using Quiz settings and Proctoring.
The exam now appears inside the course alongside the lessons.
The learner's "My Exams" list
Learners get a My Exams list that gathers all their assessments in one place. They can:
- Filter by status — pending, completed, or graded.
- Launch an exam directly from the list.
- See results once available.
This saves learners from hunting through lessons to find what they still need to do.
Taking an exam
The experience is the same as any quiz — see Taking quizzes. In short:
- Objective questions can be auto-graded for an instant result.
- Written answers stay pending until an instructor grades them.
- Results flow back into the learner's progress and grade.
Scheduled release and locking
Exam availability respects your course schedule. You can release an exam on a set date or lock it until earlier content is done. See Drip scheduling. You can also set the quiz's own open and close window — see Quiz availability.
How results feed grades
An exam's score rolls into the learner's overall course grade. Set how much it counts with weighted grading, and track outcomes in Progress tracking.
Need a main exam and a backup makeup that count as one? See Makeup & alternative assessments.