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Content Guideline for the Examination Format

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Written by Marie Xhauflair
Updated over a week ago

The examination format lets you test a learner’s knowledge about a specific topic. An examination is its own learning format and differs from other formats in one key way: it only contains validated questions.

What is an examination activity?

An examination is a standalone learning format designed specifically for assessment.

Key characteristics:

  • Only validated questions are included

  • Questions can be answered as correct or wrong

  • No feedback is shown per question

  • Results are evaluated based on a pass or fail threshold

Templates included in this format

The examination format includes the following templates:

  • Start (slide #1)

  • MPC slide (slide #2)

  • Examination end (slide #3)

These templates define the structure of the examination from start to finish.

How to set up an examination

The examination is created as its own learning format in Studio.

  1. Go to Studio

  2. Create a new activity and select: Examination

  3. Add the supported templates

  4. Configure the examination fields

🧾 Configure the examination fields

⚙ Activity settings

The settings of the examination format apply to the entire learning activity.

Content ID

  • Used for easy identification in Studio

  • Editable

  • Not visible to learners

Link

  • Optional link associated with the examination

Duration

  • Estimated activity duration in minutes

  • Displayed on the activity tile

  • If no value is set, no duration is shown

Random question sampling

This setting controls how many questions are shown to the learner during the examination.

  • You can choose a number of questions to display randomly

  • Questions are selected from all available questions in the examination

When random sampling is enabled, a message is shown indicating how many quiz questions will be presented.

🔥 Important:

Only the selected number of questions will be shown to the learner.

🧭 Examination overview

An examination consists of a sequence of slides that guide the learner through the assessment.

Based on the included templates, an examination typically contains:

  • A start slide that introduces the examination

  • One or more question slides

  • An examination end slide that shows the result

The examination evaluates learner performance based on the configured threshold.

Slide order matters in examinations

In an examination, only MPC slides that appear before the Examination end slide are included.

Any MPC slides placed after the Examination end slide are not presented to learners.

How this works

  • The Examination end slide marks the end of the assessment

  • All MPC slides after this slide are ignored

  • These slides:

    • Are not shown to learners

    • Are not included in the examination

    • Are not included in random question sampling

Example

If your examination contains:

  1. Start

  2. MPC question

  3. Examination end

  4. MPC question

Only the MPC question before the Examination end slide is included.


The MPC slide after the Examination end slide will not be shown to learners.

To include an MPC slide in the examination, you must move it before the Examination end slide.

🔥 Important:

Only MPC slides positioned before the Examination end slide are considered part of the examination and eligible for random sampling.

📄 Per-slide behaviour

Each slide in the examination serves a specific purpose.

Start slide

The Start slide introduces the examination and helps prepare learners before they begin.

Available settings

For the Start slide, you can configure the following:

Select type of media*:

  • Choose the media shown at the top of the start slide.

  • Available options:

    • Image

    • Video

    • Video URL

Hide the image overlay:

  • When enabled, the dark overlay on top of the image or video is removed.

Threshold*:

  • A number between 0 and 100 that determines the minimum percentage of questions the learner must answer correctly to pass the examination.

Number of allowed attempts*:

  • The number of attempts each learner gets to complete the examination.

  • If set to 0, learners have unlimited retries.

Number of questions to present to the learner*:

  • The number of questions included when a learner attempts the examination.

  • Questions are randomly selected from all available questions in the examination.

MPC slides

Question slides present validated questions.

Characteristics:

  • Learners select one or more answers

  • Show instructions can be enabled to display additional guidance

  • Allow multi-select can be enabled to allow selecting multiple answers

  • No correct or incorrect feedback is shown per question

Learners proceed through the questions as configured by the examination flow.

Examination end slide

The Examination end slide concludes the examination and shows the learner’s result.

This slide is automatically reached after the learner completes all included examination questions.

Available settings

For the Examination end slide, you can configure the following:

  • Hide the image overlay: When enabled, the dark overlay on top of the background image is removed.

  • Show which answers were correct/wrong: When enabled, learners can see which of their answers were correct and which were incorrect after completing the examination.

The learners will see their percentage score as well, and thus, if they passed or not.

🔥 Important things to know

  • Examination questions do not show per-question feedback

  • Results are evaluated after the examination is completed

  • Random question sampling limits how many questions are shown, not how many exist

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