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Timed online exams start in the exam builder — select items by topic and difficulty, set the sitting duration, then publish to your examination system or online test system.
OnlineTestPlus is an assessment authoring environment for institutions and organisations that need to deliver timed online exams with a clear sitting clock. Whether the paper is a professional certification, a university midterm, or an internal training benchmark, the exam builder controls which items are on the paper, how long the sitting lasts, and how the candidate moves through it.
Question design stays tied to your question bank. The timer is the duration of the sitting, not a separate clock on every question. Institutional teams use the same builder for board-style papers, recruitment screens, and certification sittings, and bank updates propagate when a syllabus or competency framework changes.
How the sitting clock works
Authors set a duration in minutes. Candidates see remaining time, and they can skip a question and return while time remains. Only Submit closes the paper — Next does not submit. When the clock ends, the learner can still confirm Submit during a short close grace. Auto-submit is a last resort after that grace, for a crash, a dropped network, or an abandoned paper. It is not an instant submit the moment the timer hits zero, and a stale heartbeat does not close the sitting. Staff can force-submit a paper that is still open after the deadline. Practice mode stays resumable; a live test is one sitting.
- Timed online exams with one duration for the paper
- Skip and return while time remains; Next does not submit
- Close grace, then last-resort auto-submit; staff force-submit after the deadline
- Question order can be randomised when you need equivalent forms
Authoring that stays in the bank
The exam builder pulls multiple-choice, single-choice, and descriptive items from question bank software, then hands the paper to the examination system. Descriptive items use a teacher-locked mark scheme. Browser lockdown and the integrity log are available when the sitting needs them. OnlineTestPlus does not ship a built-in AI camera and does not rebuild Safe Exam Browser.
Faculty pick a programme, then a class, then learners — so a Year 10 paper is not offered to the whole school list. Remaining licence seats are visible when adding or inviting learners, and add/invite/import is blocked when the cap is exhausted.
After the paper closes
Objective items can be marked automatically where that is configured. Once results are released, item analysis shows facility, discrimination, and attracting distractors once ten or more sittings exist. Those flags prompt faculty review. They do not auto-retire questions, and they are not a full psychometric (IRT) engine. Use that review to refine the next version in the same exam builder.
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