Making e-exams accessible

3. Typical task formats in e-exams

The tasks within the e-exams can take on different formats. Teaching staff, instructors, lectures can design the exams to suit the course type and purpose. The following formats can be used:

  • Open: Result entry, free text entry, scan task
  • Closed: multiple-choice task, single-choice task, Kprim task, matching question, classification task, cloze task ("CLOZE"), image annotation/hotspot/ImageMap
  • Specialised tasks such as formulas, coding etc.