Case study · Custom software

ExamYard's test builder for teachers and practice portal for students

ExamYard's questions were locked in printed books. We built two web portals on the same question bank: one for teachers to build tests, one for students to practise on their phones.

The client

ExamYard (examyard.com), whose printed Cambridge question books are used by teachers and students preparing for O Level, IGCSE and A Level exams. The student portal is at students.examyard.com. ExamYard is built and run by the Inertia Automate team. It is our own work, so we can show it in full.

What needed to change

Teachers building tests by photocopying and cutting up pages.
Students with no way to practise the same questions online.
A question bank large enough that it had to be searchable by book, chapter and marks.

What we built

No.PartWhat it means in practice

01Teacher test builderA teacher picks a book, chapters and total marks, and the portal lays out a printable test with its answer key.

02Question bank17,468 questions from 19 books, 1,054 past papers and 274 chapters, each tagged so it can be found and reused.

03Student practice portalFrom sign-up to the first question in two taps, built for phones, with written answers checked.

04HostingBoth portals run on the publisher's own server, sharing one database.

How it runs now

Teachers build tests and students practise on the live portals every day, from the same bank of questions.

Built with: PHP, MySQL, Linux VPS, nginx.

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