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Settings - Plugixa Exam
Everything configurable lives under Exams -> Settings, in three tabs, plus a fourth when Pro is installed.
| Tab | What it controls | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| General | How numbers are written and what colour exams are | Free |
| Pages | Which pages the plugin owns on the front end | Free |
| Apps | Which capabilities are switched on | Free |
| AI | The provider and key for question drafting | PRO |
There is nothing you have to set before writing your first question. These exist for when you want them.
General
Two groups.
Number formatting decides how every mark, total and percentage is written,
everywhere a candidate sees one: the admin screens, the emails, the certificates
and the result page. Decimal places, the decimal separator, and the thousands
separator, with a live preview so you can see 1,234.57 become 1.234,57.
Colours are three deliberate swatches rather than a palette of loose ones:
| Swatch | Where it is used |
|---|---|
| Primary | The brand colour across the admin and the exam pages candidates see |
| Primary contrast | What prints on top of the primary, as a pair with it |
| Accent | Highlights and secondary emphasis |
A preview panel shows a sample question with right and wrong answers styled as a candidate would see them, so you are choosing against the real thing rather than against a swatch.
Pages
The plugin owns a small number of front-end pages: the catalogue, an exam, the runner, a result, the learner portal and certificate verification. This tab maps each to a page on your site, so they sit inside your theme and your menus rather than at an address you cannot change.
The URL base is also filterable in code if you want /assessments/ rather than
/exams/. See Hooks.
Apps
The App Manager is a grid of capabilities with a switch on each.
Off means blocked, not hidden. Switching a capability off does not merely remove its menu item: its endpoints stop answering. That is the difference between tidying the interface and actually reducing what the plugin does.
Use it to hand somebody a smaller product than the one you installed. A site that only ever runs untimed practice quizzes can switch off certificates, invigilation, cohorts and webhooks and never see them again.
Two things to know before you switch something off:
- Existing content is not deleted. Turning a capability off stops it being used, not stored. Turning it back on brings its screens back with the data intact.
- A question type is not the same as its editor. Switching off Images removes the upload button; it does not stop existing picture questions being rendered or marked. That distinction was a bug once, and it is now the documented behaviour: a capability switch must never silently zero a paper.
AI PRO
Where you enter the provider, the model and the API key used for drafting questions, plus the base URL for an OpenAI-compatible or local endpoint. Nothing is generated until a key is entered, and the key is stored on your own site and never sent to a browser. See AI drafting.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Usual cause |
|---|---|
| A menu item vanished | Its capability is off in the App Manager. |
| A shortcode prints as raw text | Same cause: a capability that is off does not register its shortcode. |
| Percentages read oddly in emails | Number formatting is global, including emails and certificates. Check the separators. |
| Front-end pages 404 | The Pages tab is not mapped, or permalinks need flushing. Visit Settings -> Permalinks once. |
| Colours look right in admin, wrong on the exam page | The theme is overriding them. The three swatches are variables; a theme with its own !important rules will win. |
What to do next
- Decide who can change all this in Roles and Permissions.
- Set up the messages that go out in Notifications.
- Put the plugin’s pages where you want them with Shortcodes.