How to Create an Online Exam with AI

Most quiz platforms are built around the live game: everyone in the room, questions on the projector, leaderboard between rounds. Assignment mode keeps the same quiz but changes how students take it. Instead of answering together in real time, each student opens the quiz on their own device, at their own time, and works through the questions at their own pace.

You set a deadline, decide how many attempts each student gets, and choose when they can see the correct answers. Students join with a 6-digit PIN or a direct link, the same way they would join a live game. There is no class period to coordinate and no projector required, which is what makes it work as homework, a take-home test, or an absent-student catch-up.

The slow part of building an exam was never the settings screen. It is writing 20 solid questions. Sheelon's AI does that part in under a minute, two ways:

• From a topic. Type what the exam covers, for example "photosynthesis, 8th grade, 15 questions, medium difficulty", and the AI drafts the full question set.
• From a document. Upload the chapter, study guide, or slide deck as a PDF (up to 10 MB) and the AI writes questions grounded in your own material, including the diagrams and charts in the file. Students get tested on what you actually taught, not a generic version of the topic.

Either way, you review the draft before anything reaches students. Fix wording, swap a weak answer option, delete a question that misses the point. Expect the review to take a few minutes, not the evening. AI generation is included on the free plan with a lifetime allowance of 5 generated quizzes, and Pro removes the cap.

The same three settings turn one quiz into either a low-stakes practice set or a real exam. This is the combination that works for most classes:

For a practice run, generous retries plus instant answers turn the quiz into a study loop: students retake it until they stop missing the same questions. For an exam, one attempt with answers held back until the deadline keeps it fair across the whole class.

Results collect in one report as students finish: per-student scores, accuracy, and a question-by-question breakdown, so you can see at a glance which concepts the class missed and what to reteach before the next unit.

If you want the scores in your gradebook, Pro accounts can export the full report to Excel, CSV, or PDF in two clicks. The walkthrough is in How to Export Quiz Results to PDF and Excel.

Assignment mode is part of Pro and above; the free plan covers live quiz games with up to 50 players. AI generation itself starts on the free plan, so you can build and preview the exam before deciding: the free allowance covers 5 AI-generated quizzes (up to 50 questions in total). Pro also adds all 10 question types, unlimited AI generation, and result exports. Current prices are on the pricing page.