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Exams

Artemis runs online exams end to end: you build one, students sit it in the browser, your team assesses it, and results and grades are published on dates you set. Everything an exam needs is in Artemis, so nothing has to be carried between systems.

The stages of an Artemis online exam, from creation to complaints
The lifecycle of an Artemis online exam

An exam moves through the stages above, and the pages below follow them in order. The exam checklist on the exam's detail page tracks the same sequence with the current state of each step, so it is the quickest way to see what is still outstanding.

PageDescription
Create an ExamExam and test exam mode, the creation form section by section, and importing an existing exam
Add ExercisesExercise groups and variants, importing groups, and the settings a programming exercise needs in an exam
Prepare and TestRegistering students, generating the individual exams, preparing the exercises, test runs, and the checklist
Conduct an ExamWhat happens during the exam, and how to correct an exercise while students are working
Assess an ExamThe assessment dashboard, second correction, suspicious behaviour, plagiarism, and the exam timeline
Grade and PublishGrading keys, exam scores and their export, and publishing example solutions
Review and ComplaintsThe student review window and how complaints are answered
Exam Participation CheckerThe iPad app for verifying attendance at an on-site exam

Students have their own guide to sitting an exam, which is worth reading before you write the start text: see Exams in the student documentation.

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