Paper Setter — Create better exams
Your question bank. Your assessment goals. More control at every step.
Paper Setter brings question authoring, collaborative review, exam creation and online assessment into one workspace. Build a reusable bank around your curriculum, choose questions against your requirements, check the quality of your paper and use results to guide what comes next.
Organise questions your way. Build to your requirements. Control what gets repeated.
For schools, coaching institutes and higher-education teams that want a more structured approach to assessment.
What your team can do
| Your priority | How Paper Setter helps |
|---|---|
| Find the right questions | Search and filter a reusable question bank using your own categories |
| Avoid repeating previous assessments | Exclude questions from selected earlier exams during Auto Select |
| Create papers with purpose | Select bank questions using marks, time, question-count and tag requirements |
| Improve paper quality | Inspect coverage, difficulty, readiness and AI suggestions before distribution |
| Work together | Keep comments and reviewer feedback alongside questions and exams |
| Draft fresh content | Use AI authoring with prompts, preferences and selected curriculum context |
| Deliver assessments | Prepare printable papers and answer sheets, or conduct online exams |
| Refine question order | Shuffle paper questions within sections or across the paper |
| Hear from students | Collect sitting feedback on usability, difficulty, timing and technical issues |
| Make results useful | Review student answers and class patterns to plan feedback and revision |
1. A question bank built around your curriculum
Your institution chooses how questions are classified. Organise content using custom tag groups rather than relying only on a question title or a folder name.
Tag questions by:
- Chapter, topic and subtopic.
- Bloom's taxonomy, such as Remember, Apply or Analyse.
- Competency, such as reasoning, interpretation or problem solving.
- Learning outcomes, syllabus strands or unit codes.
- Other categories your institution defines for the subject.
A question can carry several tags. Staff can search and filter the bank to locate relevant content, then inspect the question and solution before using it.
The benefit: a growing question bank becomes easier to navigate and reuse across assessments.
Example: find algebra questions tagged for application and problem solving, then review suitable questions for the next class test.
2. Choose what to include—and what not to repeat
Auto Select assembles questions from your existing bank against explicit requirements: a question count per section, optional exact marks and time totals, the template's required tags, and optional exam-wide tag-share rules such as “at least 40% Algebra”.
It also lets you select earlier exams whose questions should stay out of the new generation.
- Prepare a retest without reusing questions from the original test.
- Build a revision paper while excluding questions from selected class assessments.
- Prepare different groups' assessments with deliberate control over reused questions.
- Combine previous-exam exclusions with your current selection requirements.
Example: when preparing Test 3, select Test 1 and Test 2 under “Exclude past-paper questions.” Auto Select excludes the question records used in those exams.
The benefit: repeat avoidance becomes part of paper preparation, reducing the need to compare old papers manually.
Requirements are met exactly or the run fails without changing the paper. Exclusions apply to the exams you select and to their question records; similar or separately copied questions require additional review. Tag-share rules can set required proportions; without them, tags filter eligibility rather than guarantee a quota for every topic.
3. Understand how balanced your paper is
A paper can meet its marks target and still need refinement. Paper Setter gives teachers visibility into its composition before exam day.
| Insight | What it reveals |
|---|---|
| Readiness | How the paper meets configured readiness checks |
| Target tracking | Marks, time and question totals against section targets |
| Tag coverage | How questions are distributed across your configured categories |
| Difficulty profile | The mix of recorded question difficulty |
| AI exam feedback | A feedback score, summary, strengths and suggested improvements when AI access is enabled |
Use these views to notice concentrated topic coverage, inspect the difficulty mix and consider improvements before approving the paper.
The benefit: decisions about paper quality are supported by visible evidence and actionable feedback.
Example: a teacher notices that one chapter dominates the paper, reviews suggested improvements and replaces selected questions to better match the assessment's purpose.
Insights depend on the questions' metadata and configured targets. AI recommendations support academic judgement; they do not certify question accuracy or guarantee a particular difficulty or cognitive-level distribution.
4. Build quality through collaboration
Keep the conversation attached to the content.
- Authors and authorised reviewers can comment on individual paper and online questions.
- Discuss wording, correct answers, solutions, marking and tags in context.
- Review corrections and add follow-up comments without searching through separate messages.
- Use review comments anchored to specific questions, a question range or the whole paper, with replies, resolved states and approval in one panel.
- Use approval indicators to communicate review status, with role-based approval controls.
The benefit: question-entry staff, teachers and reviewers can work together with clearer context and fewer disconnected conversations.
Example: a reviewer flags an ambiguous instruction and a missing solution step. The author updates the question, and the team checks the correction in the same discussion.
5. Reuse your bank or create fresh questions with AI
Choose the approach that fits the assessment:
| Approach | Best suited to |
|---|---|
| Manual authoring and selection | Precise control over content and question choice |
| Auto Select | Assembling a paper from existing bank questions against requirements |
| AI authoring / Generate Questions | Drafting new questions from a prompt and supported preferences |
AI authoring can use preferred tags, a target difficulty preference and selected curriculum documents as context. Generated questions arrive as saved drafts that teachers edit, remove or add to the paper in batches; nothing enters the exam until a reviewer adds it.
AI question authoring, Generate Questions and AI paper feedback require AI access to be enabled for the organisation. Confirm access during setup; manual authoring and bank-based Auto Select remain separate workflows.
Selection runs in the background with stop and retry controls. An optional similarity check flags similar wording across the paper; review the pairs it finds, keep them or pick a different set.
The benefit: one paper workspace supports both reuse of established material and development of fresh content.
6. From editable questions to printable papers
Create structured papers using reusable templates and an exam builder.
- Author content with mathematics, images, tables, solutions and supported subquestions.
- Arrange questions into sections and refine their order.
- Switch available question templates while authoring or editing, retaining shared content and confirming changes that would discard unsupported content.
- Shuffle paper questions within each section, or across sections while retaining each section's question count. The revised order saves automatically and remains manually editable.
- Save paper edits automatically with visible save status.
- New papers are visible by default to eligible users with organisation and subject access. Editing remains restricted to the creator and platform administrators; this does not publish papers to the open internet.
- Preview pages and check layout before distribution.
- Print on the template's sheet size: previews, printing and PDF output follow the template's A4 or US Letter setting.
- Produce print-ready papers and separate answer sheets, with multiple-choice questions summarised as tagged tables. Combine answer sheets for up to 20 selected papers.
The benefit: reusable content, paper composition and printable output are part of a connected workflow.
Shuffling changes the current paper rather than creating a batch of separate versions. After shuffling across sections, review section marks, time and coverage because preserving question counts does not preserve those targets.
7. Conduct online assessments with controlled entry and review
Build online exams from online templates and their question bank, then offer them through sittings for the intended students.
- Schedule an entry window or create an open sitting.
- Add students or distribute join codes and invitation links.
- Set invitation expiry and capacity controls.
- Use exam and section timing and supported scoring rules.
- Monitor students who have not started, are in progress or have completed.
- Review automatically marked supported question types once processing completes.
- Decide when students can access their reviews.
The benefit: teachers can manage assessment delivery and review release from the sitting workspace.
Paper and online question banks serve different formats; existing paper content is not automatically converted into every online question type. Finalise online exam content before student attempts begin.
8. Turn results into focused feedback
Paper Setter helps teachers and students examine performance beyond a single total mark.
For teachers
- Inspect completion, score distributions and class summary statistics.
- Review the questions most frequently missed, partially answered or left unanswered.
- Examine permitted individual attempts to understand specific errors.
- Use question content and tags to connect results with relevant topics or competencies.
- Plan follow-up explanation, practice and revision from the evidence.
For students
- Access their own attempt review after it has been generated and released.
- Compare section scores and inspect question-level results where provided.
- Read available solutions and explanations.
- Discuss mistakes with the teacher and identify what to practise next.
The benefit: assessment results become a starting point for improvement.
Example: several students struggle with a graph-interpretation question. The teacher checks the question, explains the method and assigns focused practice; each student uses their review to understand their own mistake.
These views support teacher-guided identification of weaker areas. They are not an automatic personalised learning diagnosis or a guaranteed outcome-attainment report. Results may be partial while attempts or review processing are still in progress.
9. Learn from the student experience
Alongside performance reports, collect students' feedback about the online assessment experience.
- Ask about ease of use, technical problems, perceived exam difficulty and whether enough time was available.
- Let students add comments through their individual feedback links.
- See response counts, email status and individual responses from the sitting roster.
- Manually email enrolled students who completed the sitting and have neither received a successful invitation nor submitted feedback, when email delivery is configured.
Repeat invitations are limited to avoid frequent reminders, and each student can submit one response per sitting. Responses are associated with students, so this is not an anonymous survey.
The benefit: combine assessment results with student experience to improve instructions, timing and delivery for the next sitting.
10. Give each person the right place in the workflow
| User | Typical contribution |
|---|---|
| Organisation Admin | Coordinate membership, access and institutional setup |
| Teacher | Author and review content, create exams and guide students using results |
| Typist | Enter and maintain question content without approval privileges |
| Viewer | Consult accessible question-bank content |
| Student | Complete assessments and view released reviews |
Platform administration and technical-support roles assist with configuration and operations. Organisation and subject access determine what users can see and do. Invite links simplify onboarding with role, expiry, usage limits and applicable subject assignments.
The benefit: the institution can involve different contributors while keeping responsibilities clear.
See Paper Setter with your own assessment material
A focused demonstration can show:
- Your subject structure and question-tagging approach.
- Search and filtering using chapter, topic, Bloom's or competency categories.
- A paper assembled with questions from selected previous exams excluded.
- Coverage, difficulty and AI feedback used to refine that paper.
- Collaborative comments, printable output or an online sitting.
- Student reviews and class analytics used to plan next steps.
- Student experience feedback and email invitations, where configured.
Bring a sample assessment and tell us what you want to improve. Let's demonstrate the workflow that matters to your institution.
Paper Setter — Create better exams. Make results more useful.
Feature overview · 8 October 2026. Available modules and actions depend on the institution's configuration and user permissions. Confirm the required scope during your demonstration or proposal.