This is a quick guide for teaching staff on how to create and assess electronic exams in the TUNI EXAM system. This guide covers briefly the following topics:
Login
Create a new exam
Add questions
Publish the exam
Assess submissions
Lock assessment
Entering an attainment
Archive completed exam
Login
Log in to TUNI EXAM with your TUNI username at exam.tuni.fi.
Create new exam
- After login change the language to English from the bottom left corner of the site.
- Then go to the Dashboard, which shows the overview of your exams.
- Press the Create new exam button.
Then select the exam type: either General exam or Personal exam. Personal exam can be used when the exam is for a certain student/students, for example when it’s necessary to give a student extra time for the exam.
Fill in the exam info
- Search the implementation which the exam belongs to.
- Set exam name (you do not need to repeat the course code in the exam name) and select one language for the exam.
- Press the Save button.
If needed, change the type of exam, grading scale, examiners, and evaluators.
Select special software/requirements and if needed, add additional materials as an attachment. If needed, compress multiple attachment files as one ZIP file.
Add instructions for students and save the changes.
Add questions
- Go to Questions tab
- Set section name and if needed, add section description
- Press Add new question
- Check additional instructions about question types and question library.
If needed, add new sections.
Finally you can preview the exam as student sees it.
Publish the exam
- Go to Publish tab.
- Select exam period, when the exam can be taken. Also, set the exam duration.
- Select maximum trial count: 1-5 or unlimited.
- Finally save and publish.
Assess submissions
- Go to Study attainments tab.
- Click the submission to assess it.
Assess (give points) the answers. You can also give verbal feedback.
Setting the final grade
- Set exam grade, exam type, language and study points (credits).
- Finally save changes.
Lock assessment and inform students
- After the submission has been assessed, select the submission
- Press Lock the selected submissions and inform the student -button. TUNI EXAM will send an automatic email to the student containing link to the assessment and feedback
Entering an attainment
Recording assessment information in the Sisu system
Archive completed exam
If needed, make sure that grades are saved to student information system before archiving.
- Select locked study attainments
- Finally archive selected study attainments.
