Guides
Everything you need to create, grade, and monitor tests, explained step by step.
Getting Started
How Do I Sign Up and Set Up an Organization?
Learn how to sign up for ExamLive. Confirm your email with a verification link, sign in with Google, and set up or join an organization through onboarding.
How Do I Invite Team Members?
Learn how to invite team members in ExamLive. Paste multiple email addresses at once, send invitations, and track pending invitations.
How Do I Create Groups or Classes?
Learn how to create groups in ExamLive. Name a group, pick its members, and assign private tests to it so only they can take them.
Creating Tests
How Do I Create a Test?
Learn how to create a test in ExamLive. Add a title and instructions, write questions, configure schedule and security, then publish.
Which Question Types Can I Use?
Learn how to add questions in ExamLive. Use multiple choice, multiple select, true/false, or short answer types with point values and answer keys, and how grading and partial credit work.
How Do I Schedule a Test and Set Time Limits?
Learn how to schedule a test in ExamLive. Set an availability window, pick a duration or enter a custom one, and see how deadlines work.
How Do I Set Up Security and Monitoring Settings?
Learn how to secure a test in ExamLive. Require fullscreen, block copy and paste, and set violation limits with automatic actions.
How Do I Import Questions from a CSV?
Learn how to import questions from a CSV in ExamLive. Map columns for question text, type, points, options, and correct answer, then review before importing.
Certificates
How Do I Create and Design Certificates?
Learn how to create certificates in ExamLive. Start from a preset, design the layout, add your logo, and set the score a participant needs to earn one.
How Do Certificates Get Awarded?
Learn how certificates are awarded in ExamLive. Auto-award on a pass mark, issue them yourself from Pending, and what participants see afterwards.
How Do I View and Manage Awarded Certificates?
Learn how to find awarded certificates in ExamLive. Search by participant, open the exact certificate a participant was issued, and jump to the submission behind it.
AI Features
How Do I Generate a Test with AI?
Learn how to generate tests with AI in ExamLive. Describe what you need in chat, let the assistant build it, then review before publishing.
Which Questions Get Graded Automatically?
Learn how grading works in ExamLive. Multiple choice, multiple select, and true/false score automatically while short answers wait for your manual review.
How Do AI Credits Work?
Learn how AI credits work in ExamLive. Track your balance and request history on the Usage page, and top up whenever you run low.
How Do I Upload Files to the AI Chat?
Learn how to upload files in the AI chat. Reference a PDF, document, spreadsheet, or CSV, and see what happens when you regenerate a message.
How Do I Publish Results with AI?
Learn how to publish results with AI. Ask the assistant to release graded scores, pull them back for corrections, and republish.
Publishing & Sharing
Taking Tests
How Do I Join a Test?
Learn how to join a test in ExamLive. Use a shared link or join code, paste it on your dashboard, and see what happens when you join or switch organizations.
What Are Pre-Flight Checks?
Learn how pre-flight checks work in ExamLive. Your internet connection, fullscreen mode, and access are verified before you start.
How Do I Take a Test?
Learn how to take a test in ExamLive. Answer one question at a time, watch your remaining time, and submit your answers.
Grading & Results
How Do I Grade Submissions?
Learn how to grade submissions in ExamLive. Check auto-scored answers, review short responses yourself, and leave feedback per question.
How Do I Publish Results?
Learn how to publish results in ExamLive. Release graded scores with an in-app notification, and unpublish to fix mistakes.
What Results Can Participants See?
Learn how result visibility works in ExamLive. Show nothing, the final score only, or a full question-by-question review.
How Do I Auto-Release Results?
Learn how auto-release works in ExamLive. Publish results the moment a test ends, or keep them manual for tests you want to review first.
How Do I Read Test Analytics?
Learn how test analytics work in ExamLive. Review average and best scores, grade distribution, violations, the leaderboard, and export the leaderboard as a CSV.
Monitoring
How Do I Watch a Test Live?
Learn how live monitoring works in ExamLive. Watch current questions, answers, time left, and violations during a session in progress.
What Happens When a Rule Is Broken?
Learn how violation rules work in ExamLive. See what triggers warnings, how limits are counted, and what happens at the threshold.
Team & Groups
How Do I Manage Participants?
Learn how to manage participants in ExamLive. Invite people in bulk, assign groups, revoke pending invites, and remove access safely.
How Do I Manage Team Members?
Learn how team roles work in ExamLive. Compare what admins and members can do, and understand why roles are set at invitation time.
Account & Billing
How Do I Manage Account Settings and Notifications?
Learn how account settings work in ExamLive. Manage your profile and security, choose email, in-app, or push notifications, and set theme and analytics preferences.
How Does Billing and Usage Work?
Learn how billing works in ExamLive. Compare plans, monitor session counts and AI credit usage across billing periods, and manage your subscription.