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 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.
• Statistics dashboard — attempts, average score, best score, pass counts and every individual submission per quiz.
• Images in questions & answers — insert pictures straight from the WordPress media library into any question or answer option, with a live preview while you build.
• Gutenberg block + shortcode — insert any quiz with the “Hexam Quiz” block or the classic [hexam id=1] shortcode.
• CSV import with column mapping — bulk-create quizzes from a spreadsheet and map your own column names.
• Fully translatable (i18n) — every string is translation-ready, and every on-screen message is customisable per quiz.
• Secure by design — nonces, capability checks, prepared statements, and full input sanitisation / output escaping throughout.
• Safe upgrades — existing 1.x installs are automatically migrated to the new database structure on activation.

Perfect for

• Online courses and e-learning (LMS-style knowledge checks)
• Schools, teachers and students
• Employee training and onboarding assessments
• Membership sites and communities
• Lead-generation quizzes and marketing
• Certification and practice exams

Coming soon

We are actively building the next generation of HEXAM. On the roadmap:

• Payment paywalls — sell access to premium quizzes and certification exams, with per-quiz pricing and coupons.
• Certificates — auto-issue downloadable PDF certificates when a learner passes.
• Randomised question subsets — draw a random subset of bank questions per attempt.
• Timed exams — countdown timers with auto-submit.
• Detailed analytics & CSV export — per-question breakdowns and exportable reports.