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How Magister Desk works, start to finish

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Statistics: which questions your class struggled with

A 32-second look at the statistics view in Magister Desk: success rate per question for a Calculus course, questions ranked hardest first, and how students answered each one.

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Dig into each part

Five kinds of work, see details on its own page: what you set up, what students see, and where the results are.

Oral exams

Magister reads your questions aloud. Students record. You grade from the recording and transcript.

Oral exams in detail

AI that drafts to make your decisions faster

Questions drafted from a PDF, slides or a photo. A suggested grade on open answers, with the reasoning. Your decision is anyway final.

AI tools in detail

Assessments and proctoring

Timed assessments from question pools and attempts. Proctoring that takes over the screen, blocks pasting and notes when a student leaves the page.

Assessments & proctoring in detail

Assignments

Set a task with instructions and reference files. Students write or upload their work and save drafts. You grade with feedback and release results when ready.

Assignments in detail

Gradebook and question analysis

Every grade in a single table, saved views, Excel export, and the questions your class found hardest.

Gradebook in detail

WORKFLOWS

Six workflows, step by step

What you set up, what your students do, and what you get as a result.

WORKFLOW 01
Give a proctored assessment
1. 01
  Build your questions
  Type them, upload a PDF, Word, Excel or CSV file, photograph a worksheet, or let the AI draft from your course material. Maths notation is handled properly.
2. 02
  Set the rules and proctoring
  Duration, start and deadline, attempts, shuffled options, whether students see the correct answers afterwards. Draw from a question pool so no two papers are the same. Switch proctoring on and track all attempts of students to cheat.
3. 03
  Students take it
  Only the students or groups you assign can open it. Answers save as they type. With proctoring on, the assessment takes over the screen, pasting is blocked and every time a student leaves the page or tries opening notes is noted.
4. 04
  Review the results
  Multiple choice and short answers are graded the moment they submit. For open answers, ask AI for a suggested grade with reasoning, then apply or adjust it.

WORKFLOW 02
Run an oral exam
1. 01
  Prepare the questions
  Write them as you normally would. Magister Desk turns each one into audio and Magister reads it to each student in turn.
2. 02
  Configure the experience
  How long students get to think, how long they can speak, and whether they see the question text or only hear it.
3. 03
  Students speak their answers
  On their own computer: hear the question, think, record, next. No appointment with you needed.
4. 04
  Listen and grade
  Play each recording, read the transcript, give a score. Tonight, tomorrow, or at the weekend.
WORKFLOW 03
Set an assignment
1. 01
  Describe the task
  Instructions, reference files (PDFs, slides, images) and a deadline.
2. 02
  Students work at their pace
  They write, upload files and save drafts until they are ready to submit.
3. 03
  Review submissions
  See who handed in and who did not, preview files without downloading, grade each one with feedback.
4. 04
  Share results
  Release grades to the whole group at once or one student at a time.
WORKFLOW 04
Track progress
1. 01
  Everything in one gradebook
  Assessment scores, oral exam results and assignment grades, across all your courses, in a single view.
2. 02
  See who is struggling
  Question analysis ranks the hardest questions first and shows which answers students picked.
3. 03
  Filter and export
  By course, group, assessment or assignment. Save the gradebooks you need. Export the lot to Excel.
4. 04
  Students see their own progress
  Each student has a personal gradebook with their scores. Nothing to send out by hand.
WORKFLOW 05
Use AI tools
1. 01
  Generate questions from your files
  Upload a chapter or type a topic. The assistant drafts questions; you keep, edit or delete each one.
2. 02
  Get grading suggestions
  For any open answer, ask AI for a suggested grade with the reasoning. Apply it, adjust it or ignore it. The grade is always yours.
3. 03
  Transcribe spoken answers
  Turn oral exam recordings into text so you can skim when you are short on time.
4. 04
  Ask the built-in assistant
  A help chat that knows how the platform works, for you and for your students.
WORKFLOW 06
Manage students
1. 01
  Add students your way
  One at a time, or a whole class from a spreadsheet. Sort them into classes, sections or cohorts.
2. 02
  Invite and assign
  Approve each student, send the invitation, pick which courses they are assigned.
3. 03
  Control who sees what
  Assign assessments, oral exams and assignments to specific students or whole groups. Only they see it.
4. 04
  Revoke access any time
  Remove a student from a course or group in one click.

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