Introducing Designer

Designer is the exam-authoring workspace. Use it to build an exam project, organize papers and sections, create questions, configure scoring and timing, and export a delivery package for Manager.

Workspace tour

• Toolbar: File, Help, and other application commands.
• Exam Explorer: the project tree containing exams, papers, sections, and questions.
• Properties: settings for the item currently selected in Exam Explorer.
• Hint: contextual guidance for the selected item or command.
• Question editor and preview: content-authoring and examinee-preview panes shown when a question is selected.

Create an exam project

1. Select File → New Exam Project.
2. Designer creates an Untitled Exam.
3. Select the exam in Exam Explorer.
4. Complete the required exam properties.
5. Select File → Save Project and save the editable project.

Save the project early and often. The project is your editable source; the exported exam file is the package used for delivery.

Add a paper

1. Right-click the exam in Exam Explorer.
2. Select New Exam Paper.
3. Select the new paper.
4. Set its title, duration, instructions, arrangement, and other properties.

An exam can contain multiple papers. Depending on your organization, a paper may represent a subject, course, module, or assessment section.

Add a question

Right-click a paper and select the new-question action, or use the New Question button below Exam Explorer.

Designer supports these core question types:

• Multiple Choice — single select
• Multiple Choice — multiple select
• Fill in the Blank

Set the answer, score, section, shuffle behavior, and other properties, then use Preview to check the examinee experience.

Authoring sequence

For a reliable project:

1. configure the exam;
2. create and configure each paper;
3. add sections where needed;
4. create questions;
5. preview and proofread;
6. save the project; and
7. export one exam for Manager.

You can also reuse papers and questions within the open project.