Prepare and Test an Exam
Between building an exam and running it there are three things to get right: the students who may sit it, the individual exam each of them receives, and a rehearsal to confirm the whole thing works. All of it happens on the exam's Students page, whose actions are grouped into three menus — Students, Logistics and Individual exams.
Register Students
Registration alone does not let anyone sit the exam; it only records who is entitled to one. The individual exams come afterwards.
The Students menu offers four ways to add people:
- Register searches the instance for a single person by name or login.
- Register course students adds everyone enrolled in the course at once.
- Import from CSV adds a list. The file needs a
registrationNumberand aloginper row;email,firstname,lastname,seatandroomare optional, andseatandroommatter only for the attendance check. You can download an example CSV file to start from. - Export to CSV goes the other way, and is the quickest way to hand a participant list to an examination office.
Deregister all students empties the registration list. Removing a student, individually or in bulk, offers to delete the participations and submissions belonging to their individual exam as well; without that, the work stays in the database and still counts in exports.
Rooms, Seats and Attendance
The Logistics menu covers what an on-site exam needs beyond a list of names. Distribute students assigns rooms and seats. Upload images takes a PDF of participant photographs, and Verify attendance shows who has started the exam in Artemis but not yet checked in with a supervisor.
Generate the Individual Exams
A student exam is one student's copy of the exam: one exercise drawn from each exercise group, so that no two students necessarily get the same paper. Artemis takes the count from Number of exercises in exam in the exam configuration.
Generate individual exams, in the Individual exams menu, creates one for every registered student. Run it again and it overwrites what is there, so use Generate missing individual exams after adding late registrations — that one only fills the gaps.
The same page lists every individual exam once it has been generated. View opens one and shows the student, their working time, their participation status, their summary and their scores, along with the assessor responsible for each exercise. That view is also where you extend one student's working time, which is how a granted extension is applied.
Prepare the Exercises
Prepare exercise start creates the participation for every exercise of every individual exam, and for programming exercises the student repository that goes with it. On a large exam this takes a while, and the page reports progress while it runs.
The Individual exams status indicator on the same page tells you where you stand: whether every registered student has an individual exam, and whether every exercise in those exams has been prepared.
Conduct a Test Run
A test run is the exam as a student sees it, taken by you. It is not a student exam and never counts towards the exam scores, so it is the safe way to find out that an exercise is unsolvable or a working time is too short.
Create a test run asks you to pick one exercise per exercise group and a working time. A test run therefore has as many exercises as there are exercise groups, regardless of Number of exercises in exam; groups with no exercises are skipped.
From there you work through the exam as a student would, submit, and end the run. A banner marks the whole time as a test run so it cannot be confused with the real thing.
Once you have completed a run you can assess it, which exercises the correction workflow before real submissions arrive — only the person who created the run can assess it. Opening its Summary shows what a student sees after results are published, and you can file and answer a complaint on it, which takes the run through every stage of the exam described in these pages.
If the course has AI feedback enabled, that same Summary offers a Request AI Feedback button. It requests AI feedback for every eligible text and modeling submission of the test run at once, exactly as students experience it in a test exam. A counter next to the button shows how many requests you have used for this exam.
Work Through the Exam Checklist
The checklist sits at the top of the exam's detail page and lists every step from creation to publication, grouped into Exam preparation, Exam conduction and Exam correction. Each task shows its current state and links to the page where you act on it, so working down the list until nothing is flagged is the shortest reliable way to confirm an exam is ready.
The exam list shows the same information in one column per exam, so you can see the preparation, conduction and correction state of a whole semester at a glance.
