Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the questions instructors and learners ask most — filter by role to skip what doesn't apply to you.
How do students get access to an assessment?
Every assessment gets a short access code. Students enter it once to join the roster, and there's no public list of assessments to browse. You can also add students directly by username, and remove anyone at any time.
What happens when I remove a student from a roster?
They lose access right away and drop out of future grade exports, but anything they already submitted is preserved. Graded work never gets retroactively erased.
Can students game the shuffling or the timer?
No. Question and choice order gets locked in per attempt by a token signed on the server, and the timer starts the moment someone first opens the exam. Refreshing the page won't reset the clock.
How does pause and resume work on timed assessments?
If you turn pausing on, a student can pause a timed attempt and only their active time counts against the limit. In-progress answers are saved server-side and waiting for them when they come back, even though they'll get a fresh shuffle on the questions.
What grading options exist for multi-answer questions?
Each select-all-that-apply question can grade all-or-nothing or with partial credit that penalizes wrong picks. Single-answer questions grade the usual way.
Which attempt counts in the grade export?
Your choice per assessment: the latest attempt, the highest, or an average across attempts. The CSV export applies whichever policy you picked.
Can I restrict who can enroll?
Yes. Set allowed email domains (university.edu, say) in Settings, and enrollment across every one of your assessments is limited to matching accounts. Organizations can apply the same rule across the board.
What happens if I correct an answer key after students have already submitted?
Nothing changes automatically. A grade quietly shifting with no explanation attached is worse than just asking first. If anyone's already submitted, saving your correction prompts you to explicitly regrade, which recomputes every existing submission against the fixed key and tells you how many scores actually moved. Skip that prompt and existing grades stay exactly as they were.
Does Oritavo detect cheating?
Oritavo records signals, not accusations: tab switches during an attempt, and rapid-retry patterns that look like someone brute-forcing the answer key. Both show up in your results view. What you do with that is your call.
Can my department or company share Oritavo?
Yes. Create an organization workspace in Settings and invite instructors by email. From there, an org admin can buy Institution seats, which give unlimited AI generation to that org's instructors, priced per seat per year and entirely self-serve. A new member gets a free seat automatically if there's room, and an admin can reassign seats to different instructors any time, so nobody's stuck with whoever happened to join first. Individual accounts keep their own personal workspace either way.
Does Oritavo have a referral program?
Yes, for instructors. Every instructor account has a personal referral link in Settings. When someone signs up through it and later upgrades to Pro, you get a free month of Pro and they get 20% off their first month. There's no cap on how many colleagues you can refer.
What if I need more AI-generated questions than my plan's monthly quota, just this once?
Buy a credit top-up pack from Settings or Pricing. There are three sizes, each a flat one-time price, no subscription needed. Top-up credits never expire, and they only get drawn on once your monthly plan quota runs out, so buying one never wastes anything you'd already get for free.
Can Oritavo create questions from my study materials?
Yes. Upload PDFs or photos of your notes (scanned pages get read automatically), or just paste text, and Oritavo drafts multiple-choice questions grounded in that material, each with its own explanation. You can also dial up how many should require an actual calculation instead of leaving that to chance. Drafts land in a question bank for you to review first, and nothing becomes an assessment until a person has looked at it. Instructors can promote a reviewed bank straight into a live one.
How do I know if I've actually studied enough of the material?
Oritavo tracks two separate numbers instead of one score. Mastery is how you've done on the questions already in your bank. Coverage is how much of the material's own topics have actually been tested. A bank of five easy questions can show 100% mastery while coverage tells you you've barely touched the chapter, so you'll know exactly what still needs more questions before you trust you're ready.
I keep getting questions wrong on one topic — can Oritavo explain it differently, not just show me the answer?
Yes. When a topic in your mastery breakdown is flagged weak, you'll see a small lightbulb next to "Drill this" — click it and Oritavo explains the underlying concept, grounded in your own tagged questions rather than a generic textbook definition. Tell it something you're already comfortable with, a hobby, a job, a subject you know well, and it'll build the explanation around that instead of restating it plainly. If the topic involves calculations, it walks through the actual method with a worked example rather than just describing the idea in the abstract.
What's the difference between practice mode and a mock exam?
Practice is untimed and shows you the answer and explanation right after each question. A mock exam runs at the pace of the real test, doesn't reveal anything mid-session, and gives you a full scored review only at the end. The timer's enforced server-side, same as a real Oritavo assessment.
Can I ask why an answer is wrong, not just see the explanation?
Yes. In practice mode, once you've answered a question you can ask a follow-up in your own words, something like "why isn't C also correct," and get a short answer grounded in that specific question and its source material. It only knows about the one question in front of you. It's not a general chat, and nothing about the conversation sticks around once you move on.
I'm not an instructor or enrolled student — can I still use Oritavo?
Yes. Register as a learner and study on your own: generate questions from your own materials, or use the prepared exam-prep tracks for certifications and entrance exams as they go live.
Can I study from the same bank as a classmate without making it a formal assessment?
Yes. Any bank can be shared read-only through a short code or link. Whoever joins can practice it, but they can't edit, regenerate, or delete anything, so it's still yours to maintain. It's live, not a one-time copy — improve a question later and everyone who joined sees the update too. No instructor and no formal enrollment required on either side.
Can Oritavo tell me how much I should study before my exam?
Set an exam date on any bank and it works backward from where you actually stand: how many questions still need review, how many topics haven't been touched yet, folded into a daily pace. If that pace turns out to be a lot, it says so plainly instead of pretending any deadline is comfortably doable.
Does Oritavo bring back questions I got wrong, or just let me redo the same quiz?
Both, and you decide which. "Review due" schedules each question on its own, using a spaced-repetition method in the same family as Anki — questions you get right drift further out, wrong ones come back sooner, all tracked per question rather than per session. In practice mode you can also rate how sure you were before checking your answer. Get one wrong that you were confident about, and it comes back faster than an honest guess would, and over time you'll see whether your confidence actually tracks your accuracy.