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For higher education: Open questions, even for 400 students

The AI platform for exams, practice and grading in higher education. You write questions from your own lectures and grade open answers with suggestions per criterion that you approve. Students get feedback they can use.

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Developed with over 100 teachers

Works with the systems you already use

Sign-in, your learning platform, assessment platform, test delivery and exchange: how Examplary fits into your assessment workflow.

Sign-in

  • SURFconext

Learning platform

  • Canvas
  • Blackboard
  • Brightspace
  • Moodle

Assessment and delivery

  • Cirrus Assessment
  • Ans
  • Schoolyear

Exchange

  • QTI

We also connect with other systems through single sign-on, QTI and our APIs. Send us a message!

From student to institution

What Examplary does for the student, the lecturer, the program and the institution, following one course with 240 first-year students.

  1. StudentBachelor's and master's students

    Practice between lectures

    Students practice with questions from your lectures and readings, whenever it suits them. Every answer gets feedback: what's right, what's missing and how to improve. They come to the exam prepared, and you see in advance where the cohort gets stuck.

    • Practice questions from your own lectures and readings
    • Instant feedback on open answers
    • Insight per topic, before the exam

    1.5×

    as much material stays with students after a week when they test themselves instead of rereading it four times.

    Roediger & Karpicke, 2006

  2. LecturerLecturers and examiners

    Grading open questions, with the groundwork done per criterion

    For every answer, the AI suggests points and feedback, explaining each criterion and how confident it is. You approve or adjust. Then you see per question and per topic how the cohort did, and which students still need help. You create questions and criteria from your own lectures and learning outcomes.

    • Analytic and holistic rubrics
    • Feedback for every student, even with 400 answers
    • Results per question, per topic and per group

    53%

    of students at Dutch universities of applied sciences are satisfied with assessment and grading. Along with the information they get from their program, it's the topic they're most critical of.

    Dutch National Student Survey 2024, Vereniging Hogescholen factsheet

  3. ProgramFor programs and examination boards

    Grading together, against the same criteria

    Examiners work on one exam together and grade together. A second assessor leaves a comment on an answer, you reply, and the decision is on record. Afterwards, anyone can follow how a grade came about.

    • Comments on answers, for colleagues or for the student
    • Version history of every exam
    • Shared folders with tests, questions and rubrics

    +38%

    more consistent grading with Examplary than between teachers marking the same answers from a university computer science course.

    Mohler ASAG dataset

  4. InstitutionFor IT, privacy and educational support

    Fits your assessment workflow

    Staff and students sign in with their institutional account through SURFconext or single sign-on. Tests go into Canvas through LTI, and exams go to Ans, or as QTI to any other assessment platform. Data stays in the EU.

    • Sign-in with SURFconext or single sign-on, for example Microsoft Entra ID
    • Integrations with Ans, Schoolyear and Cirrus
    • QTI 2.1 and 3.0, so you're never locked in

Works in every program

Every discipline is assessed in its own way. Examplary has question types to match, from history-taking to programming.

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Practicing history-taking

The AI plays a patient with a complaint. Students practice asking the right follow-up questions, as often as they like, before they work with real patients.

All 23 question types

Constructive alignment

From learning outcome to exam question

A good exam tests what the program promises. That's why questions and criteria in Examplary start from your own material: the learning outcomes, the lectures and the program's assessment model.

  1. 1

    Learning outcomes as the starting point

    Upload the course description, the learning outcomes or the test blueprint as a source, alongside the lectures and readings.

  2. 2

    Your own taxonomy

    By default, Examplary uses Bloom's taxonomy. If you use your own framework, set it up once for the whole workspace.

  3. 3

    Labels per question

    Link questions to a learning outcome or topic, and see after the exam how the cohort scored per label.

  4. 4

    Rubrics your examination board recognizes

    Analytic, holistic or exact rubrics, drafted by the AI or by you, and always editable.

Together with Cirrus

Cirrus customers build a draft exam with Examplary without leaving Cirrus.

Cirrus Assessment

“Everything it produces is transparent and editable in Cirrus, which keeps authors' judgement and subject expertise at the centre of the process.”
Jeroen Fransen, Head of Product
Read about the partnership: Jeroen Fransen

Work it out for your course

An example with your own numbers. Every number can be changed.

240
5
3 min
4
30%

less grading

72

hours a year

  • All numbers are examples. Fill in your own situation.
  • 1 FTE = 1,659 hours (Dutch higher education collective agreement).
  • The saving is an assumption: the AI does the groundwork, the examiner checks every answer.

For your IT department and privacy officer

What we commit to, and where it's written down.

  • Stored in Frankfurt, backed up in Ireland, encrypted in transit and at rest
  • AI processing stays inside the EU by default
  • Materials and answers are never used to train AI models
  • A data processing agreement, with the list of subprocessors
  • Full erasure on request, for example for a GDPR request

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Request the data processing agreementWhere your data livesAI Act documentation

How to start

We help your program from the first conversation to wide adoption.

  1. In a demo we show Examplary with one of your own courses. In the meantime, lecturers can start on their own for free.

Start with one course with many students and open questions. That's where you see the difference fastest.

Questions from higher education

Can't find your question? Email us at hi@examplary.ai.

  • The AI suggests a grade for every answer, explaining each criterion and how confident it is. The examiner decides. On the Mohler dataset, with answers from a university computer science course, Examplary grades 38% more consistently than teachers do with each other.

  • The examiner stays responsible for the grade, and Examplary is built for that: no grade is final without an examiner. The AI Act treats AI that evaluates learning outcomes as high-risk, with requirements such as human oversight and explainability. Set out these arrangements in your assessment policy.

  • Yes. Export exams to Ans, or as QTI 2.1 or 3.0 to any platform that supports the standard. Cirrus customers build a draft exam with Examplary inside Cirrus. Tests go into Canvas through LTI.

  • Yes. When grading is done you publish the results, and students see their points and the feedback per question. So they've seen much of it before any formal exam inspection.

  • Examplary isn't an AI detector: those are too unreliable to build on. It does help with assessment where you see how a student thinks: plenty of practice with instant feedback, conversations with an AI persona, and exams in a secure browser.

  • Data is stored encrypted in Frankfurt, AI processing stays in the EU by default, and nothing is used to train models. Your institution signs a data processing agreement with us. Under the AI Act, Examplary is classified as a high-risk system, with public documentation and an examiner who always decides.

  • Institutions use an organization license, priced per teacher. It includes single sign-on, the audit log, your own domain and branding, and shared folders, among other things. Lecturers can also start on their own for free first. In a demo we'll work out the numbers for your institution.

Where to next?

Try it yourself

Create a free account and set up practice questions from your own lectures.

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A demo for your program

We'll show it with one of your own courses, and answer the questions of your IT department and examination board.

Book a demoor email hi@examplary.ai