Online quizzes
A question bank, quiz structures and timed schedules, with live monitoring, attempts limited to lab networks or Safe Exam Browser where required, and scores that go straight to the marks grid.
Built for the people who run it
- Controllers of Examinations
- Deans of Academics
- Programme offices
- Faculty
- Computer lab and IT staff
- Students
What usually prompts the call
- Every quiz is set from scratch, and questions sit in individual teachers’ files.
- A general-purpose form tool cannot keep time, limit where a quiz is taken or stop students switching to other programs.
- Quiz scores are copied into the marks register by hand.
- Nobody can see, while a quiz is running, who has started, who has submitted and who has not.
What it does
Which of these are included in a deployment is set out in the proposal for that institution.
Question bank
Questions by subject and topic, with marks, difficulty and an optional image, of five kinds: one correct answer, several correct answers, a number within a tolerance, a short answer and a written answer.
Import and copy
Questions of every kind import from a spreadsheet or pasted rows, and you see what will be imported and what will be skipped before anything is saved. A whole bank can be copied between subjects.
Quiz structures
Optional blueprints such as three easy questions from one topic and two hard from another, so each attempt is composed at random to the same pattern.
Schedules
The window, duration, marks, negative marking, number of attempts, whether students may go back, and whether answers are shown after submission.
Server-enforced timing
The deadline is held on the server, so closing the browser does not stop the clock and an attempt cannot run past its time.
Marking
Objective questions are marked on submission; written answers are marked by faculty. A schedule can post each student’s score, scaled, to a test item in the marks grid.
Live monitoring
Faculty watch attempts while the quiz runs, with each student’s answers beside the correct answer.
Lab networks
The institution can keep a list of approved lab network addresses. While it has active entries, quiz attempts start only from those addresses.
Safe Exam Browser
A schedule can require Safe Exam Browser. Attempts then start, resume and open only in it, checked against the configuration’s key, and an ordinary browser is refused.
Extra time and accessibility
Extra time for students with an exam arrangement, enforced by the server, and the time remaining announced to screen readers at set intervals.
AI question drafting (add-on)
With the AI add-on, faculty can draft questions for a topic and difficulty. Drafts are reviewed and edited, and nothing reaches the bank until a reviewer saves it. See AI for faculty.
How a quiz runs, start to finish
An illustration of a typical sequence. Your own process is configured during implementation.
Faculty build or import the question bank for the subject, by topic and difficulty.
A structure sets how many questions of each kind each attempt draws.
The schedule sets the window, duration, marking and whether Safe Exam Browser is required.
Students sit the quiz from their quiz list while faculty watch on the monitor.
Objective answers are marked on submission and faculty mark any written answers.
Scores are posted to the marks grid against the linked test item.
A module, not a separate system
Online quizzes are a module of OLT SIS. They use the platform’s students, subjects and marks, and can be switched on for an institution alongside the other modules. See the OLT SIS platform.
Who we have worked with
The institutions we have worked with, and the letters they have written, are on our clients page. In a demonstration we show this module working on demonstration data.
Works alongside
Learning management (LMS)
Course pages, study material and assignments, video, SCORM lessons, LTI tools and per-student learning progress.
AI for faculty
The AI add-on, including drafting questions into the bank for faculty to review before they are saved.
Academics and student administration
One student record from registration to transcript, covering courses, attendance, assessment, grading and attainment reporting.
Frequently asked
Can students only take a quiz from the computer lab?
Yes, if you choose. The institution can keep a list of approved lab network addresses; while the list has active entries, quiz attempts start only from those addresses. A schedule can also require Safe Exam Browser. With no active lab addresses, a quiz can be taken from anywhere during its window.
What happens if a student closes the browser during a quiz?
The clock keeps running. Timing is enforced on the server, so the student can reopen the quiz and carry on within the time allowed, but closing the browser does not stop or extend it.
What does it cost?
It depends on the modules you take, the number of students and the deployment model. Tell us those and we will give you a figure.
See online quizzes with your own question papers
Tell us how your quizzes and tests run today and the demonstration will follow that.