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.
Papers and sittings are two different lists
The four tabs do not filter one list — they show two different kinds of thing.
| Tab | What each row is | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| All exams | A paper you wrote and keep | Edit, preview, print, schedule, delete |
| Live | One sitting running right now | Monitor it, open its results, remove it |
| Upcoming | One sitting not started yet | Remove it, open the paper |
| Finished | One sitting that has ended | Open its own results, remove it |
A paper sat by 12A in January and again by 12B in May is one row under All exams and two rows under Finished — each with its own date, its own pupils and its own marks.
That is deliberate, not an omission. A paper sat three times has three sets of marks, and picking one of them for you is how a mark gets read against the wrong class. Results always open from the sitting, in the Live or Finished tab.
Search and the grade, subject and language filters work on both kinds of list — searching in the Finished tab finds sittings of any paper whose title or subject matches.
The counters on the tabs count what the tab shows: All exams counts papers, the other three count sittings. So a school with 40 papers and one of them scheduled twice reads All exams 40 · Upcoming 2.
Filtering by grade
The grade filter is a dropdown covering grades 1 to 12, grouped into Primary, Gimnaziu and Liceu, and it lists only the grades your exams are actually for. Each stage can also be picked whole — All of Liceu selects 10, 11 and 12 at once.
A primary-school exam could not be filtered to at all: it was in the list, but no option selected it. If your school has a primary section, grades 1–4 now appear here and on Classes.
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. The estimated token cost and your remaining allowance are shown before generating.
Variant 1 is written first, and every other variant asks different questions about the same things. Each item is re-asked rather than reworded: the same topic, the same question type, the same number of marks and the same position on the paper, but a different figure, date, value, text or example — so the answer is a different one. A pupil who has seen variant 1 cannot answer variant 2 from memory. Where an item is read from a source, a map or a picture, that material stays exactly as it is and the new question asks something else about it.
Occasionally one item resists — a very short definition, say. Rather than quietly handing two pupils the same question, EduRol repeats variant 1's item for it and names the item in a warning after generating, so you can edit it yourself.
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.
Regenerating only some variants
Once a paper has been generated, you do not have to redo all of it to fix one variant. On the generate step, under Regenerate only some variants, tick the variants you want rewritten and press the button. Everything you did not tick is left exactly as it is, and the new questions also avoid the ones already used in the variants you kept — so variant 4 does not come back looking like variant 3.
Every other variant is built from variant 1, so replacing it would leave the ones you kept as variants of a paper that no longer exists — same marks, different subject matter. Variant 1 is shown as the source and cannot be ticked. If you want a new variant 1, use Regenerate with AI, which rewrites the whole paper.
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. On screen each source is a panel the pupil can fold away — see sources on screen.
- Subiectul III is built around a drawn map — territories, borders, named towns, movement arrows and a legend. See maps.
- 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.
Maps on a history paper
A subject that is read from a map now gets a real one. The map is generated as data — territories, boundaries, named places, movement arrows — and drawn by EduRol, identically on screen and in the printed paper.
It is not a picture found on the internet. A stock image is the wrong year, in the wrong language, and nothing on it is guaranteed to match what the items ask about, which makes the items unanswerable. It is not a paragraph describing a map either, which is what pupils used to get.
What is always on it:
- Shaded territories, each carrying its own name
- Borders, fronts, rivers and coastlines, drawn differently from one another
- Named places — capitals, cities, battles, fortresses, ports, mountains — each with its own symbol
- Movement arrows for campaigns and migrations
- A legend, and a north arrow
If the AI leaves a legend out, or explains only some of what it drew, EduRol builds the rest from the map's own names and symbols. A map whose shading is unexplained cannot be read, so this is not a cosmetic gap — it would be a broken question.
Place names are kept inside the drawing, so a town on the eastern edge does not have its name cut off, and a country's name steps aside when a town name lands on the same spot. Because the map is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp when the paper is printed and photocopied.
If something on the map is wrong, edit the question in step 4 or regenerate that section — you cannot draw on the map by hand.
Sources on screen
A subject can open with three quoted sources of 150 words each. Printed in full they push the actual task off the screen, and on a phone the pupil scrolls past half a page of prose to reach the answer box. So on screen each source is a panel that folds away: the section's own sources start open, and one tap hides them once they have been read.
There is a second thing this fixes. Item 4 of a subject often says "compare the positions of the authors of SURSA A and SURSA B" — but the sources were printed at the top of the subject, several items earlier, and the pupil had to scroll all the way back to re-read them. Now any item that names a source carries its own copy, folded shut, marked cited here. It works whichever way the paper words it — SURSA A, sursei B, sursele A și B, SOURCE C, источник Б.
The printed paper is unaffected: on paper every source is printed in full, where it always was.
Pictures on questions
Where a visual genuinely helps, EduRol looks for one automatically while it generates — the same open-licence image search the presentation builder uses (Openverse, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the Met's open collection). Every picture is de-duplicated across the paper, so no two questions share one.
Maths and language papers get none: an illustration on an algebra item is noise. For young classes the search is filtered for child-safety, and a missing picture is preferred over an unsuitable one.
When nothing is found, you are told which questions. Open-licence libraries do not have a photograph of everything, so after generating you may see a note naming the question numbers that wanted an illustration and did not get one. That is a prompt to add one yourself, not an error — the paper is complete either way.
In Preview, every question has an image field where you can:
- paste a link to any image, or
- press the picture button beside it to open your own generated images — search them, preview them, pick one
An image you pick from your library stays valid for as long as the exam does. It is stored as a reference, not as a temporary link, so a paper printed or sat weeks later still shows it.
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.
Opening a question's settings — the cog on its right — is also where you set Answer lines, how much room that item gets on the printed paper. Leave it blank and EduRol decides; see writing space.
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, or pick one of your own generated images — it appears under that question on the paper, on screen for the pupil, and in your own preview. A picture prints across the full width of the item column, big enough to read a map or a photograph on paper, and is capped in height so the item still fits a page.
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.
Writing space
Every written item prints ruled lines, and how many is worked out for you:
| Where the number comes from | What prints |
|---|---|
| You typed one into Answer lines | Exactly that many |
| The item names a length — "in 6-8 lines" | The larger number, plus two spare |
| Neither | Scaled to the item's marks, plus two spare |
Those two spare lines are deliberate. You cannot know in advance whose handwriting is large, and a pupil who runs out of paper halfway through an answer loses marks for the paper, not for the history. A maths paper prints a Rezolvare block instead, with far more room than prose worth the same marks, because working takes several lines per mark.
Set Answer lines to 0 for an item you do not want ruled lines under at all.
A short item stays whole on one page. A section heading is never left alone at the foot of a page, and the Nr. / Item / Punctaj header always has an item under it. A long item keeps its question, its picture and its marking ladders together and lets only the answer area run on — and that area breaks tidily: a barem breaks between whole criterion rows and never through one, and a Rezolvare heading always takes its first lines with it. Giving an item more lines cannot break the layout; it just uses more paper.
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. Every layout prints the whole paper — its sources, its map, its figures, its barem and its writing space. Whichever you pick, nothing is left off.
Download it as Word
Beside every Generate PDF button there is a Generate Word (.docx) one. It produces the same paper — same layout, same sources, same drawn map and figures, same barem, same writing space — as a document you can open and change.
Use it when the paper is nearly right but not quite: add a question by hand, swap a source for one your class has already read, correct a typo an hour before the lesson. A PDF cannot take any of those.
| Button | What you get |
|---|---|
| Generate Word (.docx) | The variant you are looking at, as one document |
| Download barem as Word | The marking key for that variant |
| All variants as Word (.zip) | One document per variant, plus each variant's marking key, in a single download |
The style you chose in the wizard is saved with the exam, so a download from the exams list comes out in that style too — you do not have to pick it again.
Maths is typeset in the document, not pasted as raw LaTeX. Maps and geometry diagrams are embedded as real vector drawings, so they stay sharp when you print or enlarge them — with a picture version alongside for older readers that cannot draw vectors.
The document is an export, not a second copy of the exam. Pupils sitting the exam online still see what is stored in EduRol. If a change matters for them, make it on the Preview step and regenerate; if it only matters on paper, the Word file is the right place for it.
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.
An exam that runs past midnight is understood: start 23:30 with a 60-minute paper ends at 00:30 the next day, not earlier the same day. An end time equal to the start is refused, because a zero-length window is a window nobody can sit.
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.
The same exam can be sat more than once
An exam is a paper you keep, not a one-off. Scheduling it for a class a second time adds a second sitting rather than moving the first: the same paper, a different date, its own pupils and its own results. So a paper can be sat in January and again in May, and the January marks stay exactly where they are.
Scheduling the same class for the same start and end time is treated as the same sitting, so pressing the button twice by accident changes nothing.
Pupils get a clean attempt at each sitting. This is also why an exam a class has already taken now opens properly when you run it again — previously the second run reused the first one's row, so every pupil's finished paper was still attached to it and their side showed the exam as already taken.
A plan made for the wrong date can be deleted on its own, without touching the paper or its other sittings. But once a pupil has started it, deleting it would take their answers and marks with it — so EduRol refuses and shows you exactly what is in the way: each pupil by name, the date they sat it, their score, and whether that mark already reached the journal.
"Nobody started it, so why is it refused?"
A sitting can hold an attempt from an earlier date it used to be scheduled for. Older versions of EduRol moved a plan's date in place instead of creating a second sitting, and the exit-ticket resync still shifts a quiz's window to follow its lesson — so the row keeps whoever sat it under the old window.
When that is the case the dialog says so against the attempt: from an earlier date this sitting was scheduled for. You then have the facts to decide, and a second button — Remove anyway — deletes the plan together with the attempts listed.
Marks that already reached the journal stay in the journal — the register is the school's record and is not edited from a scheduling screen. The attempts themselves, meaning the pupil's answers and score, are deleted for good. If the mark is not yet in the journal and you want to keep it, push it to the journal from the sitting's results first.
You remove a sitting from its own row, in the Live, Upcoming or Finished tab — the red calendar button on the card, or Remove this sitting in its ⋮ menu. Deleting the paper itself is a different action and lives on the All exams tab.
Setting an exam for some pupils, not the whole class
Under the date and time in the scheduling dialog, Who sits it offers Whole class or Selected pupils. Whole class is the default and stays the normal case; naming pupils is what makes a resit, a catch-up for someone who was ill, or a small-group paper possible without setting it for everyone.
Choosing Selected pupils loads that class's list, with a search box and a Select all shortcut. Tick the pupils who should sit it.
For everybody else in the class the sitting simply does not exist — it is not in their exam list, and it cannot be started even by someone who kept the link or an open tab. Their parents do not see it either.
The sitting's card says which it is: Whole class (24 pupils) or 3 selected pupils.
Schedule the same class for the same date and time again with a different selection and EduRol updates who sits it instead of adding a second sitting. That is how you correct a selection, add a pupil who was left out, or turn a named-pupil sitting back into a whole-class one.
Named pupils work for one class at a time. A selection belongs to one roster, so if you are scheduling several classes at once the picker does not apply — schedule them one at a time when you need to name pupils.
Only pupils actually in that class can be chosen. If the class list changed while the dialog was open, EduRol refuses the save rather than setting the exam for someone who is not in the class; reopen the dialog and pick again.
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.
Was this answer written by AI?
Whenever AI marking runs, every written answer — short answers and essays — is also checked for whether it reads as machine-generated. You see the result beside the answer in Review answers.
Each check gives you:
- a verdict — likely AI-written, inconclusive, looks pupil-written, or not checked
- a percentage
- the specific things it noticed, in the exam's language
- Measurements, which opens the numbers the verdict is based on
The numbers are the point. A language model writes unusually evenly: sentences come out near the same length, discourse connectors land at regular intervals, punctuation and capitals are perfect, Romanian arrives with every diacritic, and stock phrases like "în concluzie" or "este important de menționat" recur. A pupil typing under exam pressure is uneven — a short sentence beside a long one, a missing comma, a lowercase start, no diacritics. So the check measures sentence evenness, connector density, stock phrasing and mechanical polish, and the verdict has to be consistent with what it measured.
No answer is ever marked down for it, no mark changes, and nothing is reported anywhere automatically. Detecting AI writing is not an exact science: a strong pupil who writes carefully and correctly can score higher than you would expect. Treat a high score as a reason to talk to the pupil about their answer — not as proof.
Pupils and parents never see any of this. The result screen they open shows their mark and their feedback and nothing about the check — not the verdict, not the score, not the measurements. An accusation of cheating is something a teacher raises, not something the platform hands a child.
Answers shorter than about 25 words are reported as not checked: there is not enough writing to judge fairly, and guessing would be worse than saying nothing.
The cost of the check is included in the token estimate you are shown before you switch on auto-grading or press Grade all with AI — there is no separate charge to opt into or out of.
Occasionally the AI returns no mark at all for one answer. That answer scores 0 but keeps its full point value, and is flagged Needs manual marking so you can set the points yourself. It is flagged rather than quietly dropped, because dropping it would inflate the pupil's percentage.
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.
- A sitting set for named pupils is invisible to everyone else in the class, and cannot be started by them either.
- Named pupils apply to one class at a time, and only to pupils actually in that class.
- Results belong to a sitting, never to the paper — that is why the All exams tab has no results button.
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.
"The sources / map / barem are missing from my paper." Fixed. Every layout now prints them, not only the national one. Regenerate the PDF or Word file and they will be there.
"The Word file downloaded as a .zip." That is the All variants button. A zip is only sent when the exam has more than one variant — with one variant you get the document itself.
"My map has no place names in the Word file." Your reader is drawing the picture version instead of the vector one. Word 2016 and later draw the vector; older versions and some online viewers fall back. Open it in a newer Word, or print from the PDF, where the names always draw.
"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.