Wondering if you can use AES to assign a midterm or final exam to your students? The Create an Exam feature is the perfect solution!
In this article, you'll learn two ways to create a custom exam and the difference between the two.
What's the Difference Between a Generated Exam and a Blank Slate Exam?
Create a Generated Exam Using Questions from the AES Question Pool
Create a Blank Exam and Handpick or Create the Questions you Want to Add
What's the Difference Between a Generated Exam and a Blank Slate Exam?
Generated: This option will automatically generate an exam with AES questions. For an automatic exam, you will need to enter the number of questions and which modules the questions should pull from.
Blank Slate: This option allows you to pick the questions for your exam manually. When you first create this type of exam, it will be empty. Click Add Questions to add specific questions from the AES question pool or create your own unique questions.
How to Create a Generated Exam
Step 1
Sign in to learn.aeseducation.com
Step 2
On your My Classes tab, select a class.
Step 3
Click the Assignments tab.
Step 4
In the left-hand menu, click Create an Exam under the Advanced Tools section.
Step 5
Give your assessment a Title.
Step 6
Select Generated under the How do you want to begin? title.
Your generated exam will add questions to the exam for you!
Step 7
Type in the number of questions you would like generated on the custom exam.
Note: Each module lists the number of test questions available to use in the generated exam. There are additional questions available that were covered in the module's unit quizzes that are not included in this count that you can add after the initial creation of the exam.
Step 8
Select the modules that you would like to cover in your custom exam.
Step 9
Scroll down to the bottom to Create Exam.
Once your exam is created, you'll see it listed at the bottom of your assignments list.
How to Create a Blank Slate Exam
Step 1
Sign in to learn.aeseducation.com
Step 2
On your My Classes tab, select a class.
Step 3
Click the Assignments tab.
Step 4
In the left-hand menu, click Create an Exam under the Advanced Tools section.
Step 5
Give your assessment a Title.
Step 6
Select Clean Slate under the How do you want to begin? title.
Step 7
Click the Create Exam button.
Once you've created your blank Clean Slate exam, you'll find it listed at the bottom of your assignments list.
When you're ready to fill it with the questions of your choice or create your own custom questions, you can edit the exam.
Here's how: How to Edit a Custom Exam