Exams
Who this is for: teachers · Where: Exams in the sidebar.
What this page is for
Creating exams, running them, and marking them.
The header tracks how many exams exist in total, how many are live right now, and how many are scheduled for this week; the search box and the status, class, subject and language filters underneath narrow the card grid to whatever you are looking for.
Each card's ⋮ menu reaches it without opening the wizard: Edit returns to the wizard steps, Preview opens the read-only paper (see the wizard's Preview step below), and Preview as pupil opens the exact screen a pupil uses to sit it.
Preview as pupil shows the same sources, citations and question navigator a pupil would see, with an orange banner marking it as a preview so it is never mistaken for a live attempt — nothing is recorded, which is what makes it safe to use for proofreading before you assign the exam.
The wizard
Five steps. Everything you set is restored if you close it and come back — including the curricula you picked, the question mix, your written context, the exam type and the anti-cheat settings.
1. Basics
Picking a template first pre-fills the rest of the form: quick economic types (Test rapid, Evaluare primară, Test personalizat) for everyday AI-efficient checks, or the premium national-format types (Teză, Sesiune semestrială, Sesiune finală) that follow the shape described below. Each card shows its duration, total points, variant count and an estimated token cost before you commit to it.
Title, subject, grade, class, exam language, total points, duration, instructions.
Exam language is the language the questions are written in. It is deliberately separate from the language you are reading EduRol in: you can build an English paper for Limba engleză and a Russian one for Limba rusă from the same account. Romanian, Russian, English and Ukrainian are at the top of the list, followed by every language taught as a subject and the widely-taught world languages.
The whole paper is written in this language — stems, options, expected answers, the quoted source passages and their citations, and the marking rubric. Changing it afterwards means regenerating.
A paper that came back half in one language and half in another is rejected and rewritten before you ever see it. The one exception is a subject that teaches a different language: a Limba rusă paper written in Romanian is allowed to quote a Russian extract, because that is the point of the exercise.
Duration is how long a pupil has once they start. The window is when the exam is open at all. A pupil gets whichever runs out first — see scheduling.
2. Content
Pick curricula and sections, set the question mix by type and points, and add source material.
The question-type toggles only apply to quick tests and quizzes — formal papers (teză, sesiune semestrială, sesiune finală, BAC) skip them and use the AI-built structure described below instead.
Pasting text is not enough on its own — but pressing Generate now saves and extracts it automatically, so it is used even if you forget the save button.
3. Generate
Choose how many variants to produce (from 1 up to 30) and the quality tier — Economic, Echilibrat, Înaltă or Maximă. At every tier only the first variant is generated in full; the rest are paraphrased from it to keep the token cost down. The estimated token cost and your remaining allowance are shown before generating.
Anti-cheat and marking options are set on this step too: shuffling the question order and the answer options per variant, tab-switch detection, paste detection, auto-submit when time runs out, and optionally locking the exam to a single browser window. Grade automatically with AI after submission can be switched on here as well — it spends a small, estimated number of tokens per pupil at the moment they submit, separate from the generation cost above — alongside a passing-grade percentage and when pupils get to see their own score.
Generation runs on the server, not in your browser. A full teză or BAC simulation takes several minutes to write. Once you confirm, EduRol tells you it has started and you are free to close the page — you get a notification the moment the paper is ready, and clicking it takes you straight to the preview.
While a paper is generating, the Generate button is disabled and explains why. A second run would overwrite the first one's variants halfway through and charge your token budget twice. Wait for the notification, or reopen the exam — the progress picks up where it left off.
If a generation fails, the notification says so and the exam keeps whatever variants were already written.
What a formal paper looks like
The formal types — teză, sesiune semestrială and sesiune finală — are not longer quizzes. They are written to the shape of the national papers, and that shape differs by subject.
Humanities (history, languages, literature):
- Subiectul I and II open with quoted source passages, each with a real citation, and the items ask the pupil to work from those sources.
- Subiectul III is built around a visual — a map, a diagram, a table.
- Subiectul IV is a single essay worth around a third of the paper, with an analytic barem: a row-by-row table of what earns each mark, adding up to the essay's total.
STEM (maths, physics, chemistry):
- Items are grouped by domain — algebra, geometry, analysis — under their own headings.
- Geometry items carry a drawn figure: labelled points, segments, right-angle marks and circles, rendered as a real diagram on screen and in the PDF rather than described in words.
- Each item leaves ruled space for Rezolvare (working) and Răspuns (answer), because the working is what earns the marks.
Formal papers are open-response throughout. If you want true/false and multiple-choice items, use one of the quick exam types instead — they are built for exactly that and cost far less to generate.
4. Preview
Every question as pupils will see it. Edit, reorder or delete before publishing. A Preview as pupil button on this step opens the same read-only exam-taking view described near the top of this page, and a PDF-theme picker (Test Național by default, or Clasic/Modern/Academic/BAC) sits above the questions.
Each variant has its own tab. From here — and from Variants on the exam card in the list — you can download that variant's paper and its marking key as separate PDFs. The same read-only view is also reachable later without reopening the wizard: choose Preview from an exam's ⋮ menu in the exams list.
5. Assign
Tick the classes or groups to assign the exam to, then see scheduling below for how it opens. A summary panel totals the duration and how many variants are ready before you publish.
The printed paper
Papers print in the national test layout by default: a cover page carrying the ministry line, your school, the test number, subject, cycle, time allowed, permitted materials, instructions to the candidate and the pupil-identification grid — then the items as an Nr. / Item / Punctaj table with two marking ladders per item, one for each examiner.
Maths and science formulas are typeset properly in the PDF, not printed as raw LaTeX, and geometry figures are drawn as vector diagrams — they stay sharp at any print size.
Pictures print too. If you attach an image to a question — paste a link in the question editor on the preview step — it appears under that question on the paper, on screen for the pupil, and in your own preview. Images are scaled to fit the item so a large one cannot push the marking ladder off the row.
The picture is fetched and converted when the PDF is built. If the link is dead, private, or the host blocks the request, that question simply prints without its picture rather than failing the whole paper — so check the preview shows the image before you print a class set.
What follows the cover depends on the paper. A humanities paper prints its source passages and citations above the items they belong to, and the closing essay prints its barem as a marking table. A STEM paper prints its domain headings, the figure beside the item it belongs to, and ruled Rezolvare / Răspuns space under each item.
Headings are printed in Romanian, Russian or English — whichever the exam is written in. For any other exam language the headings stay in the language you are reading EduRol in, while the questions remain in the language you chose.
Four other layouts (classic, modern, academic, BAC) are still available from the preview step if you prefer them.
Scheduling
| Method | What happens |
|---|---|
| Now | Opens immediately, lasting exactly the duration |
| Calendar | You pick the date and time; it stays a draft until then |
| Manual | Saved as a draft. Nothing opens until you start it yourself |
Choosing manual creates no assignment, even if a class is pre-selected. The exam stays a draft and editable. Start it later from the exam list.
The window defaults to the exam's own duration rather than a fixed two hours.
A draft you saved as manual, or one you simply want to reschedule, is reopened from its ⋮ menu in the exams list — Edit drops you back on the wizard's Assign step so you can pick a different method.
Monitoring
While an exam is live you see each pupil's status, progress and time remaining, updating on its own as a grid of cards — one per pupil, starting at Neînceput (not started) until they open the exam.
- Close early ends it for everyone; each pupil is submitted with whatever they have and taken to their result
- Anti-cheat events appear against the pupil who triggered them, each stamped with the time it happened, in a running list beside the grid
The badge switches from LIVE to CLOSED when the window ends, so the screen never claims an exam is running when it is not — the pupil grid and the anti-cheat list stay in place afterwards so you can review what happened.
Results and marking
The results screen opens on a per-pupil list, searchable by name, with four counters across the top: how many pupils are on the roster, how many are already graded, how many submissions are still waiting, and how many marks have reached the journal.
Per pupil: the score, the mark, and every question with their answer.
- Review answers opens the full paper, where you can override points per question and add notes
- The proposed mark updates as you change points
- Push to journal writes it to the official record — a separate step, so a practice exam need not count
Grade with AI proposes a mark for one submission; Grade all with AI grades every ungraded submission that has been turned in, in one pass. Both show the estimated token cost and your remaining balance before you confirm, and the confirm button is disabled if the estimate would put you over budget.
Nothing is failed automatically. You see what happened and decide.
Rules and limits
- One attempt per pupil unless you reopen it.
- The clock is on the server — changing a device's time does nothing.
- Correct answers are never sent to the browser during an exam.
- Answers are revealed after marking, and only if you allow it.
- Closing early submits everyone; it does not discard their work.
Troubleshooting
"Pupils cannot see the exam." It is a draft, or its window has not opened.
"A pupil's timer was shorter than the duration." The window closed first — see scheduling.
"It went live when I chose manual." Fixed. Manual now creates no assignment at all.
"Marks are not in the journal." Push them from the results screen.
"A pupil was disconnected." Saved answers survive; the timer keeps running. Reopen the exam for them if needed.
"Generation seems stuck." It is running on the server, not in your tab — closing the page does not stop it. A formal paper can take several minutes. You will get a notification either way.
"The questions came out in the wrong language." Check the exam language on step 1. It is not taken from the app's language switcher.
"My teză has no multiple-choice questions." That is deliberate — see what a formal paper looks like. The national papers these follow are open-response, and the marks are for the working. Use a quick exam type if you want multiple choice.
"The exams list says I have no exams." It no longer does — the list opens on all exams rather than only the live ones, so drafts and finished exams are visible straight away. Use the status filters to narrow it down.
"I cannot find the variants." Variants on the exam card opens them, with a paper PDF and a marking-key PDF for each one.