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Question bank

Writing questions by hand, reading them from a paper or drafting them from a chapter with AI, and getting them reviewed.

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Question types

Multiple choice — one answer
Between 2 and 8 options, one of them correct.
Multiple choice — several answers
More than one option is correct (but not every option).
True or false
A statement the student marks True or False.

Every question is marked automatically against its answer key, so there is nothing to mark by hand.

Writing a question

  1. Open Questions and press New question.
  2. Choose the Type, write the Question, and fill in the options. Mark the correct one (or several) as you go; Add option adds a row, up to eight.
  3. Set Marks (half marks are allowed) and, if you want, Negative: marks taken away for a wrong answer. An unanswered question is never penalised.
  4. For several answers, choose Partial credit: All or nothing, Proportional (credit for each right tick, debit for each wrong one) or JEE (partial credit, but zero if any wrong option is ticked).
  5. File it under a Class, Subject and Topic, choose a Difficulty (easy, medium or hard) and add Tags to find it by later.
  6. Add an Explanation (optional). Students see it with their result when the exam allows it.
  7. Choose a Status and save. The Preview beside the form shows exactly what a student will see.

Formatting, maths and pictures

  • **bold** and *italic* work in questions, options and explanations.
  • Maths is written in LaTeX between dollar signs: $x^2$ inline, $$…$$ on its own line. If you type maths without them, the editor offers Wrap as maths.
  • Pictures can be added to the question, the explanation and each option, by upload or by pasting: PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, up to 4 MB.
  • Maths from a photo turns a photograph of a formula into LaTeX for you to check.

Draft, review and approval

Draft
Only you use it.
Ready for review
Waiting for an approver.
Approved
Anyone can put it on a paper.

Open a question to see the Review section with Approve, Send for review and Back to draft. Administrators can approve, and so can teachers with the Approve questions permission. Papers drawn by rules only use Approved questions.

A teacher sees their own questions and the bank questions in the classes and subjects they are assigned. Only the author or an administrator can edit a question; everyone else can read it and use it.

Adding questions with AI

On Questions, press Add with AI. First choose the Class, Subject and Topic the questions belong to, then pick one of two cards.

Read questions
You already have a paper: a PDF, a Word or Excel file, or photographs of the pages. The questions are typed up as they are. Press Read the questions.
Prepare questions
You have a textbook chapter, notes or a syllabus, and want new questions written from it. Optionally say How many questions of each difficulty, then press Create the question paper.

You can upload up to 48 files, 20 MB each. Your files are not saved: they are read, the questions are taken out, and the files are dropped.

Check before adding

  1. Every proposed question opens on the Check before adding screen, least certain first. Badges such as Check this one and Needs an answer show where to look.
  2. Press Edit to correct a question, its options, the answer, the marks or the explanation. Press Drop to leave one out (Put back undoes it).
  3. When a document did not have everything, the AI fills the gaps, such as a missing answer, and says so. Check those answers yourself. Ask the AI again retries questions that still have no answer.
  4. Press Add N questions. They join the bank as Approved, under your name. Questions you already have are skipped.

From a spreadsheet

If you type questions into a spreadsheet, press Sample sheet on the same screen for the layout: type, question, optionA… optionD, answer, marks, difficulty and solution. The answer is a letter, several letters as A;C, or TRUE/FALSE. A row with no answer is rejected rather than guessed. AI uploads lists past batches.

Working with many questions

  • Search looks through question text, options and tags. Filters narrow by class, subject, topic, difficulty and status.
  • Press Select, tick questions, then Add to exam (an unpublished exam), Move to another class, subject or topic, or Delete.
  • A question that is already on a paper is retired instead of deleted, so the paper keeps it.

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