Examinations

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not just content.

Turn what you teach into something a student can earn. A focused exam hall, seven auto-graded question types, timed sittings, and paid retakes — so an exam becomes a credential, not just a quiz.

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Final exam · Glaze chemistry
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The exam hall

A room built for one thing: the test.

When a student starts an exam, the storefront falls away and a focused split-screen hall takes over — the question on the left, the answer space on the right. Nothing to wander off into, nothing to lose their place in.

  • Split-screen layout keeps the prompt and the answer side by side, so there's no scrolling back and forth.
  • A fixed footer timer stays visible the whole sitting, so students always know how long is left.
  • A question palette lets them jump to any question and tracks what's answered and what's flagged for review.
  • Full keyboard navigation and autosave to the browser — a stray refresh or a closed tab never loses a student's work.
Exam hall
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Teal = answered · Gold = flagged · Outlined = current

Question types

Seven ways to ask, all graded for you.

Quizzes and exams share the same seven auto-graded question types. Set the answer once and it scores itself — at any volume, day or night.

Multiple choice

One correct answer from a list of options. The classic for quick, unambiguous recall.

True / false

A two-way decision. Fast to answer and ideal for testing a single fact or principle.

Multiple select

More than one right answer. The student picks every option that applies — and must get them all.

Short answer

A typed word or phrase, matched against the answers you accept. Great for terms and definitions.

Numeric with tolerance

A number answer with a tolerance band you define — so a rounded or close result still counts as correct.

Ordering

Arrange items into the right sequence. Perfect for processes, steps, and timelines.

Matching

Pair items from one column to the right partner in another. Ideal for terms-to-definitions.

Scoring is per-question, correct or incorrect — there's no weighted or partial credit, so grading stays consistent and easy to explain to students.

Quizzes & assignments

Check understanding at every step — not just the end.

The final exam is one decisive test. Before it, the same engine runs quick quizzes after each lesson and graded assignments in between.

Per-lesson quizzes

Attach a quiz to any lesson and check the idea while it's fresh. Set a passing score, cap the attempts, and require a pass before the lesson counts as complete — or keep it low-stakes.

Quizzes belong to lessons; the course-level test is the final exam. See courses.

Graded assignments

Set written work with a real due date. Students submit in the portal, you grade with written feedback, and an email tells them the moment it's marked.

Human grading for the work an answer key can't score.

The final exam

One decisive, course-level test at the end of the journey. Passing it can complete the course — and unlock the certificate your students are working toward.

A pass can gate the certificate. Explore certificates.

Graded assignments

Some work needs a human eye.

Multiple choice can't judge a brushstroke. Assignments put a teacher back in the loop: the student writes, you read and grade, and an email tells them the moment it's done.

  • Due dates keep a cohort moving together — every assignment can carry a deadline.
  • Typed submissions — students write their answer straight into the portal, so there are no files to chase down.
  • Written feedback — you grade in the admin and leave a real note, not just a mark.
  • Graded-work email — the student is notified by email the moment you grade, so feedback never sits unseen.
  • Completion requirement — require an assignment pass, alone or alongside watch time, before a lesson counts as complete.
Assignment · Graded wash study Mastering Watercolor

Student submission

on time · due Mar 14
"I wet the top third first, dropped ultramarine into the bead, then tilted the board to pull the wash down. The granulation surprised me…"

Your feedback

Lovely, even gradation in the top half. The hard edge lower down is the bead drying out — reload the brush before your final pass.
Passed student emailed

Rules & integrity

Set the rules. Protect the bank.

You decide how an exam behaves — how long it runs, how many questions it draws, and what counts as a pass. The defaults are sensible; everything is yours to change.

Timed sittings

Put the exam on the clock. The live countdown survives a page reload — refreshing never pauses the timer — and when time runs out the sitting closes and counts as an attempt.

Randomized pools

Build a larger bank and have each attempt draw a different subset of questions. Two students rarely see the same paper, which keeps repeat attempts honest.

Passing score & attempt caps

Set the bar to pass — the default is 70% — and, if you want, cap how many attempts a student gets. The pass line drives certificates and course completion.

The answer key stays private

Exams return the score, but never expose a per-question answer key to the student. That's intentional: it protects your question bank from being copied across attempts — and it's a real exam, not a study sheet.

Sell them two ways

An exam can be a finale — or a product.

Use an exam wherever it fits your business. The same exam engine works inside a course or out on its own.

Inside a course

Add an exam as the final step of a course. Students work through the lessons, then sit the exam to prove they're ready — and a pass can unlock a certificate.

A course exam is the course's final exam — one decisive test at the end of the journey. See courses.

Standalone, through checkout

Give an exam a price and it becomes its own Shopify product, sold through your normal checkout — a certification test with no course attached. Each purchase grants a bundle of attempts.

Listed and sold like any other product. See how it sells.

Paid retakes, built in

Each purchase grants a set number of attempts. When a student runs out, a "Buy another attempt" button puts them one checkout away from trying again — failing isn't the end of the road, and every retake is revenue through your normal Shopify checkout.

Free until you sell. 5% after. Never more than $29 a month. See pricing.

Build fast

A full exam in the time it takes to fill a spreadsheet.

If your questions already live in a spreadsheet, you're most of the way there. Import up to 200 questions from an Excel file with a question-type column, and Chapters builds the exam for you. Prefer to start from scratch? Write them right in the editor.

  • Import up to 200 questions from one Excel or CSV file, with a column that says which type each row is — and a downloadable template to start from.
  • Or build in the editor — add, edit, and reorder questions one at a time when you'd rather work by hand.
  • Mix and match — import the bulk, then refine the wording in the editor before you publish.
exam-questions.xlsx 200 rows
Type Question Answer
choiceBest flux for…B
truefalseBisque is glazed…False
numericCone 6 in °C…1222 ±5
orderingFiring steps…3,1,2,4
matchingOxide → color…A-2,B-1
shortName the clay…stoneware
…194 more rows Import all
Final exam · Glaze chemistry last 30 days

Pass rate

74%

Avg. score

81%

Attempts

218

Sales

183

Hardest questions

Q9 · Eutectic point31% correct
Q4 · Flux oxides48% correct
Q12 · Cooling crystals59% correct

Analytics

See how your exam is really doing.

Every exam comes with its own dashboard, so you can tell a fair test from a frustrating one — and a popular product from a quiet one.

  • Pass rate, average score, attempt count, and sales — the headline numbers for every exam, at a glance.
  • A "hardest questions" view surfaces the questions most students miss — so you can spot a confusing prompt, fix a typo in the key, or add a lesson that closes the gap.
See engagement & insights

Certify

A pass becomes proof.

Tie a certificate to an exam, and clearing the pass mark lets the student claim an official, branded certificate they can show the world — engraved with your name and signature, and verifiable on a public page anyone can check.

Explore certificates

Certificate of completion

Glaze Chemistry

Passed with

88%

verify · CHP-7F2A-9K1

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