Quiz results and scoring

Quiz Analytics Tool for Quiz Results, Scores and Answer Sheets From Every Quiz You Share

Build a quiz from your own document, send the link, and get back a score for every person you invited plus a full answer sheet for each attempt. This page is deliberately specific about what those reports contain and about the metrics PDFQuiz does not calculate, so you can tell in two minutes whether it fits your workflow.

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In short: PDFQuiz reports results as two PDF documents. The invitee results report lists everyone you invited with their name, email, invitation time and score as a percentage. The per taker report shows every question with the correct answer marked and the answer that person chose. There is no dashboard, no chart, no per question statistics, no cross quiz progress tracking and no score export to CSV or Excel. If you need item level psychometrics or a gradebook feed, PDFQuiz is not the tool for that part of the job.

What the two reports actually contain

Most pages in this category describe an analytics product in the abstract. Here are the exact fields, taken from the reports themselves.

Invitee results report, one row per person

  • •Invitee. The name and email address of the person you invited.
  • •Invited. The timestamp of the invitation, in GMT.
  • •Score. A percentage, or the words "in progress" if they have not finished.

That is the whole document. It answers "who took it and how did they do", which is the question most people actually have, and it answers nothing else.

Per taker report, one document per attempt

  • •Every question in the quiz, numbered.
  • •Each answer option, with the correct one marked.
  • •The option that this person selected, marked separately.
  • •Their score, their email and the source file the quiz was built from.

This is the useful one for teaching. Reading three failed attempts side by side usually shows you the concept that did not land, without any statistics at all.

What PDFQuiz quiz analytics does and does not do

Every row was checked against the product rather than against a feature list. Where the answer is no, it says no.

Capability PDFQuiz
Score for every invitee in one documentYes, as a PDF: name, email, invitation time, score percentage
See exactly which answers one person gaveYes, as a per taker results PDF with the key marked
Hide the score from the person taking the quizYes, the show score setting controls this
Analytics dashboard with charts and graphsNo. There is no dashboard and no chart anywhere in the product
Percentage correct calculated per questionNo. Answers are not aggregated per item
Discrimination index or point biserial correlationNo, and the raw data needed to compute them is not exportable
Distractor analysis, which wrong answer was picked mostNo aggregate view. You can read it per attempt and count by hand
Progress tracked across several quizzes per studentNo. Each quiz is independent and there is no learner profile
Time spent per question recorded and reportedNo. Time limits can be set per question, but timings are not reported back
Compare two classes, cohorts or time periodsNo comparison feature. Download both reports and compare them yourself
Export scores to CSV or ExcelNo. The Elite CSV export contains questions, not results
Send scores to an LMS gradebookNo LTI app, no single sign on, no roster sync, no grade write back
Alerts when someone scores below a thresholdNo alerts, and no passing score setting to trigger them from

Who this is enough for, and who needs something else

Enough for you if

  • •You teach a class or run a team and want to know who took the quiz and what they scored.
  • •You want to read the actual answers of the people who did badly, which is where the teaching signal is.
  • •You need a record you can file or forward, and a PDF is a perfectly good record.
  • •Your group is small enough that counting is faster than configuring a reporting tool.

Look elsewhere if

  • •Scores have to land in an LMS gradebook or a student information system automatically.
  • •You run a credentialing program that requires documented item analysis on every form.
  • •You need per learner progress over a term, mastery tracking or intervention alerts.
  • •Compliance requires an auditable spreadsheet export of every result.

Saying that plainly costs us some sign ups and saves everyone the wasted week. PDFQuiz is built around turning a document into good questions quickly. The reporting is deliberately thin, and pretending otherwise would just move the disappointment later.

If you do need item analysis, here is how it actually works

Item analysis rests on two numbers per question. The first is the proportion of candidates who answered correctly, often written as a p value between 0 and 1. Items above about 0.95 or below about 0.30 tell you little about the group, because nearly everyone or nearly nobody got them.

The second is the item total correlation, the relationship between getting one item right and scoring well on the whole test. You want it positive: the people who did best overall should be the people who got this item right. A negative correlation is the most useful signal in the whole exercise, because it usually means the answer key is wrong.

PDFQuiz calculates neither number. If your program depends on them, run your responses through a psychometrics package, and treat generated questions as a first draft that a subject matter expert reviews before anything counts.

What you can do without any statistics

  • 1.Read the answer sheets of the three lowest scores. The repeated wrong option is your misconception.
  • 2.Check any question your strongest people got wrong first. That is usually a keying error, not a knowledge gap.
  • 3.Regenerate from the same source document to get fresh items, and drop the ones that confused everybody.
  • 4.Edit questions directly. Every generated item is editable before you share the quiz.

Quiz analytics questions people ask

What analytics does PDFQuiz provide?
Two things, and they are both reports rather than a dashboard. The first is an invitee results PDF for a quiz, listing every person you invited with their name, email, the time they were invited and their score as a percentage, or "in progress" if they have not finished. The second is a per taker results PDF showing every question with the correct answer marked and the answer that person actually gave.
Does PDFQuiz have an analytics dashboard with charts?
No. There are no charts, graphs or visual dashboards. There is no analytics engine computing trends in the background. What exists is the two PDF reports described above plus the score shown on screen at the end of an attempt. If you need charts, export what you have and build them in a spreadsheet.
Can I see how many people got a specific question wrong?
Not as a calculated figure. PDFQuiz does not aggregate answers per question, so there is no per item percentage correct anywhere in the product. You can read each taker's answer sheet and count by hand, which is realistic for a class of 25 and not realistic for 300 people. If per item statistics are the reason you are shopping, this is the wrong tool.
Does PDFQuiz calculate item discrimination or point biserial correlations?
No. Those are psychometric statistics that require raw response data per item per candidate, and PDFQuiz neither calculates them nor exports the raw data you would need to calculate them yourself. Any page telling you otherwise is wrong. Use a dedicated psychometrics package if your exam program depends on item analysis.
Can I export quiz scores to CSV or Excel?
No. There is no score export in any format. The question CSV export that exists on the Elite plan contains the questions you generated, not the results people submitted. Scores leave the product as PDF only, through the invitee results report and the per taker report.
Can I track a student's progress across several quizzes?
No. Each quiz stands alone. There is no student profile, no cross quiz history, no mastery tracking and no longitudinal view. If you need a running record per learner, keep it yourself from the per quiz reports, or use a platform built around a gradebook.
Does PDFQuiz connect to my LMS gradebook?
No. There is no LTI app, no single sign on, no roster sync and no grade write back to Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Google Classroom or Teams. Quizzes are shared as a link. Scores stay in PDFQuiz until you download the reports.
How do I see results for a quiz I shared?
Open the quiz in your quiz list and download the invitee results report for the score of everyone you invited, or open a single attempt and download that person's results PDF to see their answers question by question. You can also switch off the score display if you do not want takers to see their own result immediately.
What is item analysis, and should I be doing it?
Item analysis is the practice of checking whether each question earned its place on a test, usually with two numbers: the percentage of candidates who answered it correctly, and the correlation between getting that one item right and scoring well overall. It matters if you run a high stakes credentialing exam. For a classroom quiz or a training check, reading the answer sheets of the people who failed usually tells you the same thing faster.
Which quiz settings affect what results you get?
Three of them. Show score decides whether the taker sees their own percentage at the end. Random questions shuffles the order of the questions, though never the order of the answer options. Repeat attempts decides whether one invitee may take the quiz more than once, which changes how you should read a score list.

Related tools and guides

To get the results in the first place you need a quiz worth sharing, so start with the PDF to quiz converter or the quiz maker for teachers. To hand the questions to someone else's system instead, see the quiz export tool, which sets out exactly which formats leave the product. For sharing mechanics and invitations there is the quiz sharing platform page, and for exam style question sets the PDF to practice test generator and the medical coding practice test generator.

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