Getting started with Portfelim
Portfelim is built around a simple idea: the material you already teach with is the best source for the questions you give your students. Instead of writing an exam from a blank page, you upload what you have, choose what you want, and let the AI produce a first draft you can refine. Most teachers go from material to a finished, exportable exam in about five minutes.
Start by gathering your source material. That might be a chapter from a textbook, a few photos of your handwritten notes, a slide deck, or a PDF you hand out in class. Upload it to your resources, or paste a link if the material lives online. You do not need to clean anything up first – Portfelim reads the content and works out what it can ask about.
Next, tell Portfelim what you want. Choose how many multiple-choice questions and how many open questions to generate, pick the language, and set the difficulty to match your class. These choices shape the draft, so it is worth thinking about the exam you actually want to give rather than accepting the defaults. A short, focused quiz and a full end-of-unit exam start from very different settings.
When you generate, you get a complete draft: questions, answer options, the correct answers, and an answer key. This is a starting point, not a final product. Read through every question, fix anything that does not fit your class, reword a stem that reads awkwardly, and delete questions that miss the mark. Editing a good draft is far faster than writing from scratch, and you stay in control of the final content.
Once the exam reads the way you want, export it. Portfelim produces clean PDF and DOCX files you can print or share, with a separate answer key for yourself. If you would rather have students answer online, you can turn the same questions into an auto-graded quiz and share a link instead.
That is the whole loop: upload, choose, generate, refine, export. The more specific you are about what you want, the better your first draft will be – and the less editing you will have to do.