Augure Exams

How to use the platform

A quick guide for teachers, invigilators, and students. Five minutes covers everything you need for a first exam.

Signing in

Enter your school email on the sign-in page — you'll receive a one-time link. There are no passwords.
The link expires shortly and works once. If it doesn't arrive, check spam first; some school mail gateways scan (and consume) sign-in links — your school admin can help.

Step 1 — Roster → Students (school administrators): add each student with their school email. To add a whole class at once, use “Add many at once” and paste a list — one student per line, “First Last, email@school.com” or just the email. Column headings and duplicates are skipped automatically, and a preview shows exactly what will be added before you commit it.
Step 2 — Roster → Classes (school administrators): create a class group (e.g. “Sec 2 History”) and enroll students into it. You can also pick the class while pasting in step 1 to enrol everyone at once.
Step 3 — On the exam's edit page, assign the exam to the class and publish it. Teachers can do this for their own exams.
Step 4 — Student accounts are not self-serve yet. Being on the roster records who is in a class and drives the “not started” tracking during an exam, but it does not by itself create a login: a student signing in for the first time will be told they don't belong to a school until an administrator sets their account up. Talk to your Augure contact before your first exam so accounts are in place.
“Preview as → Student” at the bottom of the sidebar shows you the student's view of the app. It deliberately stops short of sitting an exam — an attempt started from a preview would be a real submission on your own account.

Exams → New exam creates a draft. Drafts are never visible to students — publish is a separate, deliberate step.
Add questions one at a time. Ten types are available: multiple choice, multiple response, short text, long text (essay), true/false, fill-in-the-blanks, rubric, drawing, file upload, and media + written response.
Points parse automatically from patterns like “(5 points)”. You can reorder, edit, or delete questions any time before publishing.
To give instructions partway through an exam (“Answer Questions 16 to 20 in your Student Booklet…”, “Part B — read the passage below”), add an Instructions block from the type list. It has no answer box and no points, isn't numbered, and students can have it read aloud like a question. Imports turn instruction paragraphs into these blocks automatically.

Exams → Import accepts a PDF with selectable text, a PNG/JPG photo or scan of a typed master, or a plain-text file (15 MB max).
Numbered questions (1., 2., …) import best. Multiple-choice options (a, b, c…) are detected; answer keys are never guessed — anything uncertain is flagged for your review.
The import always lands as a draft for you to check before anything reaches students. If a PDF is a pure scan with no selectable text, export its pages as PNG/JPG and upload those instead.

Browser lockdown asks students for fullscreen, blocks copy/paste and right-click, and logs tab-switches for the invigilator.
Locked question sequence (MEQ mode) shows one question at a time with no going back.
Anonymous grading hides student identities in the grading view until every answer has a grade.
Writing assistance and voice dictation are on by default and can be turned off per exam.
Time limits are enforced server-side from each student's start — writing freezes and the exam auto-submits at zero, even if the student's clock is wrong. Per-student extensions add to it.

Answers save automatically as you type — there is no save button to remember.
Text-size controls (A− to A++) are at the top of every exam.
In long answers you may see a grey inline suggestion: Tab accepts it, Esc dismisses it, and typing anything replaces it. Your teacher may have turned this off.
The Dictate button types what you say (English or French) — say punctuation out loud: “period”, “new paragraph”, “virgule”.
Submitting locks your answers after a confirmation that shows how many questions you've answered. Auto-graded questions score instantly; written answers go to your teacher.

Each exam's grading queue lists submitted sessions with their written answers — auto-graded question types are already scored at submission.
Enter a score and an optional comment; the comment appears alongside the score on the student's report. You can update a grade any time.
With anonymous grading on, identities reveal automatically once everything is graded.
Results (next to Grading queue on the exam) shows every submission's total out of the exam's points, plus the class average once nothing is left to mark. An exam made only of auto-graded questions has an empty grading queue on purpose — its marks are on Results.

Roster holds your STUDENTS and class groups — students are records with a login email, not staff accounts. Staff roles (school admin, teacher, invigilator) are managed separately by your school admin.
Categories are an optional subject taxonomy for organizing questions and exams.
The “Preview as” switcher at the bottom of the sidebar shows the platform exactly as another role sees it — including Student, which renders the taker dashboard and exam flow.

Sign-in link missing → spam folder, then your school admin.
An import that split questions oddly → fix the draft in the editor; simpler numbering imports more cleanly.
Anything else → your school admin is the first stop; they can escalate to platform support.

Student work stays on Canadian infrastructure, and AI features never retain or train on student content — the full overview is on the privacy page.