Blended Teaching lets you create, print, scan, auto-grade, and return paper exams with the same ease as online quizzes. This guide walks you through the complete workflow, from creating your exam to syncing grades with your LMS.

Start in your Control Center:

You now have a blank Paper Exam. It has no questions yet, but it’s ready to build.

Exam instructions appear on the front page of the question sheet. Use this space to tell students anything they need to know, such as:

To add instructions:

Below the Instructions box on the Build page, add or select questions.

You can:

Later, you’ll choose whether students receive:

Students can receive feedback once the exam is auto-graded.

To control the feedback settings:

To set randomization, open the exam's Setup tab and select Paper randomization.

Depending on the questions used, you may see the following options:

Recommended setup:
For equal difficulty and strong academic integrity, use Dynamic MCQs, enable Randomize numeric values, and Shuffle question order.

Auto-grading requires each student to have a unique QR-coded question and answer sheet.

For this reason, it's best to enroll all students before generating exam papers. If students enroll after papers are generated, use Add Student Forms on the Print tab to create a separate PDF for just those students. Your original Exam Package stays unchanged.

To enroll students,

For any content or assessment to be used by students, it must be added in the Course Structure page.

If you are using your Blended Teaching tool integrated, follow these instructions. If your tool is unintegrated, skip to section 2.3. If you are not sure which relates to you, ask Blended AI.

Now that the Blended Teaching is confirmed as installed, its time to add the enroll link for your exam:

This creates a graded Canvas assignment. Points, due dates, and availability sync automatically from Blended Teaching.

When students click the link, they’ll be prompted to enroll.

These steps have created a graded assignment in your Blackboard gradebook. The points, due dates and end dates will be synced with Blended Teaching. So if you want to change those details, just do so in Blended Teaching.

When students click on the link in Blackboard, they will be asked to enroll for the exam, meaning a question and answer sheet will be created for them later in the process.

When students click the link, they’ll enroll in the exam. If needed, you can later manually add grades to your LMS.

The Exam Package includes:

Tip: If questions change, delete the existing package and generate a new one. If new students enroll, use Add Student Forms instead.

✅ You’re ready for exam day when:

After the exam, digitize the answer sheets and upload them to Blended Teaching.

Recommended methods:

Scanning is strongly recommended when available.

Upload files on the exam's Grade tab.

If you've uploaded the wrong answer sheet for a particular student, find the student's uploaded submission on the Grade tab, and click the delete icon next to their name. Once confirmed, the submission will be deleted.

Note: Deleting a submission will remove all grading data for that student, so you'll need to re-upload a new file for their grading.

If the system is not confident about an answer, it flags it for review.

You can:

Once all exceptions are reviewed:

Your exam is now fully graded 🎉

You can:

Based on your feedback settings, students access results by clicking the same exam link used for enrollment.

Grades sync automatically. You’re done 🙌

Use the Canvas Export Wizard in the Export menu on the Gradebook page to transfer grades without manual copying. For the steps, see Grade Sync Wizard for Canvas.

In your Control Center, go to Gradebook and click Export to download the gradebook (CSV or Excel), and manually upload or enter grades in your LMS.

It's best to, but it isn't required. Enrolling all students before you generate the Exam Package gives you one complete package.
Each student receives a unique QR-coded question and answer sheet. If students enroll later, use Add Student Forms on the Print tab to create a separate PDF for just those students. The original Exam Package stays unchanged.

Changes made after papers are generated will not appear on printed exams.

Best practice: Finalize all questions, instructions, and settings before generating papers. If changes are needed later, regenerate the Exam Package.

Yes. Depending on your setup, students can receive:

These options are controlled in the exam’s Setup tab.

Students should only write on the answer sheet.
The answer sheet is scanned and graded. Writing on the question sheet cannot be auto-graded.

You can upload:

For large classes, we recommend uploading one combined PDF containing all answer sheets.

No. Page order does not matter.
Each answer sheet is identified using its QR code.

You can delete the incorrect answer sheet.

Go to the Grade tab of the assessment, find the student with the wrong answer sheet uploaded, and click the delete icon next to their name. You can then re-upload the correct answer sheet.

If an answer is unclear, it will be flagged as an exception. You can:

Once all exceptions are reviewed, click Submit all grades to finalize grading.

Yes. You can:

That depends on your feedback settings. You control:

Students access results by clicking the same exam link they used to enroll.

If something seems off:

If you still need help, our support team is happy to assist.

If you offer makeup exams, you can create a separate version within the same exam to use different questions and prevent answer sharing, while ensuring grades are counted toward the same exam in the gradebook.

Creating a new exam version has no impact on students whose grades are already in the gradebook.

Steps to create a makeup version: