Exam.net

Exam.net is a web-based platform for creating, running and marking secure exams and quizzes, built for schools and universities, with a section of the site also aimed at companies and organizations. It is an assessment tool rather than a course platform: a teacher writes or uploads a test, students sit it in the browser, and the teacher marks it automatically, by hand, or both. The home page says it is trusted by over 270,000 teachers across the world, at 20,000+ schools and 1,000+ universities, and counts 70 million exams started. It also says Exam.net is "trusted for nationwide final exams in Sweden", and the interface, according to the same page, was built by former teachers.

Building an exam

The quickest route in is an existing paper test. The home page says you can create an exam in minutes by uploading an existing exam as a PDF, and several of the teacher testimonials on the site describe exactly that move. Questions can also be typed or pasted into the "New Exam- builder" view, which offers different question types; one professor quoted on the home page says Exam.net lets students "both write at test and choose answers", so written answers and selected answers sit in the same exam. Teachers keep an individual question library and can reuse questions from previous exams to put together new assessments, and exams can be shared with other teachers. Another testimonial describes using the "preview exam" option to produce an answer key formatted the same way as the student answer sheet.

Exams can carry teacher resources for students to consult: a reading, a timeline, primary sources, a list of equations, illustrations, code snippets or audio files, depending on the subject. YouTube and other external resources can be embedded in an assessment, according to the online assessments page.

Tools by subject

The site groups its in-exam tools by subject (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, English, Computer Programming, Languages, Social Sciences and University). For math and science teachers that means an equation editor, a calculator, a drawing area, GeoGebra and Desmos, a text toolbar with Greek letters and equation symbols, and scanning of handwritten drawings. Programming teachers get tools in JavaScript and Python. For language teachers the page lists a spell checker in English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese and Norwegian, accent marks and special characters, and audio recordings made by students. Essay subjects get the spell checker, an English thesaurus and plagiarism checks through integrations, Ouriginal among them.

Accommodations are set per student. The online assessments page names text-to-speech, translation and extra time, and the home page says exams can be customized to each student's individual needs. A biology teacher quoted on the site says the speech tool helped learning support students who would otherwise need someone to read the test to them, and a computer science professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano describes duplicating exams for students who are allowed additional time.

Running and securing an exam

Students need no account. They open an exam with an exam key the teacher gives them, and the home page says a teacher can create and conduct a first exam in less than an hour without talking to a salesperson, entering a credit card, installing software or creating student accounts. Exams can be collected stand-alone or through an LMS, online or offline, and with or without handwritten attachments. For entrance exams the site mentions an exam start and submission scheduler.

During the test a monitoring view shows each student's progress, including who has not yet started writing, and a built-in chat lets the teacher answer one student without interrupting the class. Teachers quoted on the site add detail: watching in real time what each student has written, a timer, and forcing the end of a single exam or the whole class.

Security comes in three levels, according to the home page, alongside cheat prevention, plagiarism detection and randomized question order. The highest level is a secure browser lockdown mode, and the site links to an "Install high security mode" download. One university teacher writes that under medium security, students who leave the exam window must give a justification before they can continue, and a social sciences teacher notes that a security report is available after the test. The Milan professor describes running Exam.net with SEB for two years with a class of around 250 students a year.

Marking and results

Exams can be auto-marked against rules the teacher sets, or marked manually. Answers can be anonymized before marking, which the site presents as a way to grade without unconscious bias. A university social sciences teacher at Antonine College writes that "the functionality of listing criteria to mark against on long answer questions was so helpful especially when different teachers were marking." After the test, the teacher chooses how exams are stored or accessed, and one testimonial lists printing, downloading as PDF or Word Doc, and sending to Google Drive.

The site reports four survey figures: 86% of teachers say Exam.net is a time-saver, 92% of users feel confident in its ability to prevent cheating, 94% find it very easy to use, and 98% of teachers agree it helps them monitor students efficiently in real time. The page does not say how or when these were collected.

Integrations and Exam.net Math

Exam.net integrates with Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. The home page says students can start exams from their feed and teachers can return results to students in one click, and a banner notes that Exam.net is now integrated with Microsoft Teams for Education. A second banner says Exam.net Math, "a question bank and test making tool for Math teachers", comes free as part of an Exam.net license.

Trial, pricing and support

Exam.net has a 30-day free trial per school with no credit card required. The online assessments page says you "will not automatically be moved into a paid plan after this period, instead you will be offered to buy a license for your school or organization." The site publishes no prices on these pages; it offers a price quote request and a demo booking instead.

The online assessments page says Exam.net meets privacy requirements including GDPR, FERPA, COPPA and SOPIPA, and points to a Privacy Center for questions on data security. Free self-paced training videos cover getting started, and the site links to a support site, a service status page and the address info@exam.net. The interface is offered in English, Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and both Norwegian Nynorsk and Bokmål.

Customer stories

Two customer stories sit on the home page. Christ's College trialled several online assessment platforms before choosing Exam.net for its ease of use, and later weighed whether to keep it once teaching returned to the classroom. Larbert High School in Falkirk, which the story calls the largest non-denominational school in Scotland, has over 2000 students and 150 teachers, and 40% of its students are registered with Additional Support Needs, which is the angle the story takes on equitable assessment.

Who it suits

Exam.net suits secondary schools and university departments that want to move written tests and finals onto screens without building student accounts, especially where teachers already work in Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams. Math, science, language and programming teachers get subject tools that generic form builders lack, and schools with many students on accommodations can set them per student. Its security levels make it a fit for high-stakes exams as well as quick quizzes and exit tickets.

It is not a course platform: there is nothing here for selling courses, building lessons or running a learning catalog. A school that needs published per-seat prices before a trial will have to request a quote.