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Auto-graded quizzes for your class

June 20264 min read

Grading a stack of quizzes by hand is one of the least rewarding parts of teaching. Auto-graded quizzes in Portfelim let you skip the repetitive marking and spend your time on what the results actually tell you. Once you have an exam you are happy with, turning it into a quiz takes just a few clicks.

Begin with a set of questions – generated from your material and refined the way you like. From there, you can publish those questions as an auto-graded quiz. Multiple-choice questions are scored automatically against the answer key you already have, so students get an immediate, consistent result the moment they submit.

Sharing is built around a simple link. Students do not need to create accounts; they open the link on a phone, tablet, or laptop, enter their name, and answer the questions. Because everything runs in the browser, a quiz works just as well for a quick in-class check as it does for homework students complete at home. You decide when to share the link and when to stop accepting responses.

As submissions come in, you get a clear view of how the class did. You can see each student's score and answers, and – just as usefully – which questions tripped up the most people. A question that almost everyone missed often points to a topic worth revisiting, or occasionally to a question that needs rewording. This turns a quiz from a grading chore into a quick read on what your class has actually understood.

Open questions are part of the picture too. They are not scored automatically, since they call for your judgment, but they sit alongside the auto-graded results so you can review written answers in one place. You get the speed of automatic marking where it makes sense and keep a human eye where it matters.

The result is a faster loop between teaching and feedback: build a quiz from material you already have, share a link, and read the results without marking a single paper by hand.