For US classrooms and training rooms without devices
Paper still wins when the wifi is unreliable, the phones have to go away, or the room has no devices at all. Upload your chapter or handout and get numbered questions laid out for printing, with the answer key as a separate file.
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The short answer
To make a printable test, generate the questions from your source material, number them continuously, keep any single question from splitting across a page break, and export to PDF rather than printing from Word. PDF is the format that prints the same on every machine. Print the answer key separately, never as a hidden column or a trailing page on the student copy. Upload a chapter or handout here and both files come out ready to print.
These are practical planning numbers for a US letter page at 11 point with normal one inch margins. Aim below the ceiling rather than at it, because a question that splits across a page break is the thing students ask about mid test.
Online grading is faster and the analytics are better. That is not in dispute. Paper still wins in specific, common situations, and it is worth being clear about which ones so the choice is deliberate.
Step 1
The chapter, handout, manual, or deck the test covers. Scanned pages are fine, so a printed packet still works.
Step 2
Use the table above to keep the test inside the page count you want. Two clean pages beat three ragged ones.
Step 3
Download as PDF for printing, or as Word if you want to adjust wording and spacing first, then export to PDF yourself.
Step 4
The answer key downloads as its own file. Keep it that way through printing.
PDF. A Word file can repaginate when it is opened on a machine with different fonts or a different default printer, which is how a two page quiz becomes three pages with one question stranded at the top. Export to PDF once the layout is right, then print from the PDF every time.
No, unless your school scans them for you. For a class sized group, a simple numbered answer column on the last page grades just as fast against a key and costs nothing. Bubble sheets pay off at scale, when a machine reads them, or when you need item analysis across several hundred students.
Roughly ten to twelve multiple choice items with four options each fit on a letter page at 11 point with normal margins, or about six if you leave writing space. Short answer items with three lines of space run four to six per page. Plan for fewer than you think so nothing splits awkwardly.
No. Keep the key as a separate file and print it separately. Answers hidden in white text or a trailing page get exposed by a stray print job or a PDF conversion, and that is the most common way a test leaks before it is given.
Generate a second version rather than scrambling the first by hand, and keep a separate key for each, labeled Form A and Form B in the header. Reordering questions without renumbering the key is the mistake that ruins a grading session. Print the two forms on different colored paper if you want to spot them across a room.
Yes. Upload the chapter as a PDF, or scan the pages if you only have the book, and questions are written from that text. Scanned pages work as long as the text is legible. Keep the scan flat and in frame, because a photo taken at an angle produces noticeably weaker questions.
Upload the chapter, handout, or manual. Download the test as a PDF and the answer key as a separate file.