What's new in Examplary

When you're marking, not every comment is meant for the student — some are just quick notes between you and your co-teachers. Every grading comment now carries a visibility setting, so you decide exactly what gets shared.

Each comment you leave starts out Internal, visible only to you and your colleagues. Flip the switch to Public and it becomes part of the feedback the student sees. A small eye icon next to each comment shows its status at a glance, so there's never any doubt about what's on show.

Replies follow their parent comment, and changing a comment's visibility takes its replies along with it — mark a thread public and the whole conversation goes with it. When you share results with students, only your public comments are included; everything you kept internal stays behind the scenes.

When you upload student answers on the results page, you're no longer limited to PDFs. You can now upload photos too — JPG and PNG images are handled just like a PDF.

So a quick photo of a student's page from your camera roll, or a scanner that saves images instead of PDFs, goes straight in without converting anything first. Select one or more files, and Examplary reads each one in the background, matching the answers to the right student and question so you can get straight to grading.

Once you've finished grading, you can now let students review their own results online — no more exporting PDFs or handing grades back one by one.

When every answer has been reviewed, you'll see a prompt to share the results. Open the Results review settings and turn on Online review to show results in each student's dashboard. You stay in full control of what they see: toggle the final grade, earned points per question, feedback, and answer comments on or off independently.

When you're ready, click Publish results. Every student with a linked account gets an email letting them know their feedback is available, and a Results available card appears on their dashboard. From there they open a clean Test results page with their grade, points, your general feedback, and a per-question breakdown of their answers.

Only comments you've marked as public are shared — anything left internal stays between you and your colleagues. Results that aren't linked to a student account yet won't send a notification, so link those first if you'd like those students to review their results too.

When you scan a stack of paper tests — or add a student by hand — that result starts out on its own, not yet tied to anyone's account. You can now connect it to the right student in just a couple of clicks.

Open the options menu (⋯) next to a student in the results view and choose "Link to student account". Search for the student by name or email address, pick them, and the result is connected to their account.

From then on it behaves just like a test taken online while signed in: the name comes from the student's account and stays in sync automatically, so you no longer have to worry about a typo or a name the scanner didn't read quite right.

Practice spaces now have a Show points per question setting, so you can decide whether students see how much each question is worth while they practise.

Turn it on and the points show up in two places: on each question as students work through it, and on the feedback screen, next to the points they earned and Examplary's explanation. Leave it off — the default — to keep practice feeling low-stakes and focused on learning rather than the score.

You'll find the toggle under Student view appearance in your practice space settings, and you can change it at any time.

When Examplary AI creates a test or a new question, it now picks the kind of scoring rubric that actually fits each question — instead of a single flat list of points.

An essay gets an analytical rubric, with several criteria that are each scored across performance levels like "Poor" through to "Excellent". A short open question can get a holistic rubric that judges the answer as a whole, and a vocabulary question gets a fixed list of answers that must match exactly. Straightforward questions still get a simple points rubric, just as before.

Because the AI grades open answers against these rubrics too, marking is more consistent and easier to explain to your students — and you can fine-tune any rubric it produces, exactly like one you built yourself.

Scanning paper tests with your phone is now much quicker. Photograph a student's pages one after another without waiting for each one to be read, then tap "Submit" and move straight on to the next student.

Examplary reads the student's name from the first page for you, so you rarely have to type it in — and you can always correct it if it's not quite right.

Everything is processed in the background. On your computer, each student you submit appears in a live list that updates from scanning through to imported, so you can keep track of the whole stack at a glance.

You can now include a question in a test without it counting towards the score. Open the options menu (⋯) on any question and choose "Exclude from grading" — either in the editor or straight from the results view.

Excluded questions are still shown to students, answered, and graded as usual. They simply don't count towards the total points or the final grade, and the totals and grades recalculate automatically around them. They're marked with a "Not graded" label so it's clear at a glance.

This is handy for reflection or survey questions, warm-up questions, or trying out a new question without affecting anyone's grade. You can also drop a flawed question after the fact, without deleting it or losing the answers students already gave.

Examplary generates the questions in a practice space from your source materials. Now you can shape that mix yourself: give any generated question a thumbs up or thumbs down in the practice space editor.

Questions you upvote are served to students more often, and ones you downvote drop to the back — so the questions you think work best are the ones your students see most.

It takes a single click per question, and you can change your mind at any time.

Workspace Admins and Owners now have a dedicated Integrations section in their workspace settings, where you can connect Examplary to the third-party services you use.

The first integration available is Schoolyear, which lets students take assessments in a safe, locked-down environment. Open Settings → Integrations, pick a service, enter your credentials, and you're connected — there's no need to involve our team. Each connected service shows its status at a glance, and you can update or remove it whenever you like.

Every change is recorded in your audit log, and this is where new integrations will appear as we add them.