HEXAM — Quiz & Exam Builder
HEXAM is a fast, secure and modern quiz and exam plugin for WordPress. Build engaging quizzes, graded exams, knowledge checks, surveys and online assessments in minutes — then drop them into any page or post with a block or shortcode. Whether you run an e-learning site, a membership community, a sch
About this tool.
HEXAM is a fast, secure and modern quiz and exam plugin for WordPress. Build engaging quizzes, graded exams, knowledge checks, surveys and online assessments in minutes — then drop them into any page or post with a block or shortcode. Whether you run an e-learning site, a membership community, a school or a corporate training portal, HEXAM gives you a professional quiz experience with zero configuration headaches.
Version 2.0 is a complete, ground-up rewrite: a beautiful mobile-friendly frontend, a drag-and-drop question builder, real question types, scheduling, enrolment control, live scoring and per-quiz statistics — all following current WordPress security and coding best practices.
Why choose HEXAM?
- Question bank — a central, reusable question library (with draft/pending/private/publish statuses and tags) that feeds any quiz.
- Add from bank & forking — drop bank questions into a quiz as read-only linked copies that stay in sync with the bank, or fork them into local, editable questions with one click.
- AI question generation (WordPress 7.0+) — describe the questions you need and let the WordPress AI Client draft them: straight into the quiz editor, or into the question bank as drafts for review. Works with any provider configured under Settings → Connectors.
- Modern quiz UI/UX — clean, responsive, accessible quizzes that look great on any device and adapt to light or dark mode.
- Drag-and-drop quiz builder — reorder questions by dragging, add or remove answers instantly, no page reloads.
- Real question types — single choice (radio), multiple choice (checkboxes) and open text answers.
- Two display modes — show every question in one list, or present them one-by-one as slides with a progress bar.
- Scheduling — set a start date (with a friendly “not started yet” notice) and a deadline for each quiz.
- Enrolment control — make a quiz public, restrict it to specific user roles, or limit it to named individual users.
- Automatic scoring — instant grading with an optional passing percentage, pass/fail messaging and a score meter.
- Negative marking (penalty for wrong answers) — optionally deduct a configurable percentage of a question’s points for each wrong answer (default 25%), just like real certification and competitive exams. Unanswered questions are never penalised, so guessing carries a genuine risk.
