What better way to monitor your learners' progress than assigning them an exam. Within your LearnWorlds school you can create the most amazing exam activities with either multiple choice or true/false questions, to always be aware of your students' potential and course progress. The exam learning unit can be used for creating formal tests and with it you can create any kind of test type by adjusting settings such as the duration of the test, maximum number of tries, passing grade ,etc. Here are some basic steps you can take when creating your exam learning unit:

1 Go to Courses --> "Desired course".

2 In the course contents page under the section in which you want to create an exam click "Add an activity".

If you want to create a new section to add the exam then first click on "Add section" and then click "Add an activity".

3 To create an Exam click at the Exam button.

4 Give a title to your exam and click on the “Save” button

You just created your first Exam!!

5 To edit the exam click the "Settings" button for this element.

6  To customize your exam questions, simply click on the "Edit questions" button shown below.       

7 The first time you create an Exam, you will be prompted to choose your desired settings, including the passing grade, test duration, etc.


Duration in minutes?
Random Questions?  
Maximum number of tries?
Notify user before submit
Show students' mistakes
When this option is enabled the students, after submitting the exam, will be able to re-view their answers to see whether they answered correct or not.
Downloadable file after successWhen this option is enabld, the students after submitting the exam and getting a passing grade, they will be given access to a companion file provided by you.

You can change the label of the button and add the link showing to that file.
Passing grade in %?

8 In order to add questions to your test, simply hover on the cross sign on the upper side of the screen and choose the type of question you want to add:

a) Multiple choice:

After your insert a multiple choice question, type/paste your question, the possible answers and at the correct answer click the "correct" checkbox next to it.

Note: You can add more alternative answers by clicking the “Add Choice“ button bellow.

b) True/False:

After inserting the True/False question, type/paste the question title and the statement. If the statement is true click the correct box otherwise leave it blank (blank means that the statement is False).

9 Don't forget to click on the "Save" button to save your exam changes.


This is how your learners will see the exam:

Well done, you have created your first exam! Now, your learners will be able to put their knowledge to the test, and improve towards success!