The section is called Tests and exams. The unit of work is a set: the rules of an assessment rather than the questions themselves.
What a set is made of
Where questions come from. Your own, written by the school. Or ours, taken from the Voone question bank: thirteen tests and 424 questions on the rules, lights, manoeuvres and radio work. No school needs to retype that.
How many to hand out. A set of eighty questions can hand out twenty at random.
A time limit, in minutes, or none at all.
A pass mark — the share of correct answers that counts as a pass.
How many attempts — one, three, or unlimited.
Whether it issues a certificate. A separate switch, and the most consequential one: it decides what your school puts into the world.
A quiz usually runs without a timer and with unlimited attempts; a test has a pass mark and a couple of goes; an exam is one attempt, a hard timer, a high bar and a certificate. That is a convention your school adopts, not three different mechanisms — all three are assembled from the same settings.
Why the result can be trusted
Four things are held by the server and cannot be argued with from a browser.
1The answer key does not leave early. While an attempt is running, questions arrive without the correct option and without the explanation. The server decides that, not the screen.
2The question list is fixed at the start. Which questions were drawn is written into the attempt, so reloading the page cannot swap them or let anyone fish for an easier draw.
3The clock belongs to the server. The deadline is stored when the attempt begins and enforced there. The timer on screen is a courtesy: browser clocks are two clicks away from being wrong.
4An unfinished attempt resumes. Starting again returns the same attempt rather than burning a second one — reloading a page must not cost a student their exam.
Answers are sent as they are typed rather than in one click at the end, and each question shows whether the server has it. A closed tab does not cost anybody their work.
Our question bank and the open reference
Voone teaching material is served openly, which is convenient: a school can drop our rules and lessons straight into its courses. But the open feed carries no correct options and no explanations — an exam whose key sits in the next browser tab is not an exam. During an attempt, questions are served and marked by the portal.
When a certificate appears
A certificate is issued for a passed attempt of a set that has certificates switched on. Passed means a verdict exists and it is positive.
Here lies the detail that generates most support calls: if the set contained written answers, no machine marks them. The attempt closes, but the verdict stays empty until a teacher reads the text, and without a verdict there is no certificate. There is a separate article on that.
A certificate can also be issued by hand, with no attempt behind it: for a practical exam, for sea time, for a whole course.