Assessment operations, clearly explained

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ExamNova is a self-hosted assessment platform. These guides explain the complete journey from installation and question authoring to exam delivery, marking, published results, and safe integrations—in language suitable for first-time operators and experienced developers.

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Choose your path

01Install ExamNova

Check requirements, prepare hosting, run the protected installer, and verify recovery.

02Run an exam

Prepare people and questions, build the exam, review evidence, mark, and publish.

03Take an exam

Understand assignments, instructions, autosave, submission, and result access.

04Review results

Mark responses, moderate disagreements, approve scores, and publish safely.

05Develop or integrate

Follow tenant, authorization, state, API, file, job, and testing boundaries.

What ExamNova owns

ExamNova owns assessment work. Your school-management system remains the source of truth for admissions, attendance, fees, and master student records. Your LMS remains responsible for lessons and learning content.

ExamNova product boundary. External school systems provide roster context, ExamNova runs assessments, and approved results return to connected systems.

The complete assessment lifecycle

Assessment lifecycle. Seven connected stages from preparation through sharing results.

Real product screens

All product images in this guide come from the isolated, fictional seeded-demo environment. They are not visual mock-ups.

Question Bank in the seeded ExamNova demo — **Live seeded-demo screen.** Authors review reusable questions before they are placed into an exam.

Exam Builder in the seeded ExamNova demo — **Live seeded-demo screen.** Administrators compose, schedule, and assign an exam.

Student portal in the seeded ExamNova demo — **Live seeded-demo screen.** Students see only their permitted exams, results, and documents.

Reports screen in the seeded ExamNova demo — **Live seeded-demo screen.** Authorized staff review finalized assessment information.