If you set PaperScorer up last August and haven't looked at the settings since, a few things have changed that are worth ten minutes before your first quiz.
This isn't the setup guide — the playbook still covers the order to do things in, and none of that has changed. This is what's new since you last read it.
Print the question paper, not just the answer sheet
The biggest change for most teachers. PaperScorer now generates the question paper as well as the answer sheet, straight from the text already on your assessment.
If you've been maintaining a Word document of questions alongside a PaperScorer answer key, that split is no longer necessary. One assessment, both printouts, and no risk of the key drifting away from the questions.
Worth knowing before you rely on it: if you only ever entered an answer key and never typed the question text, the paper will print placeholder filler. That's a layout preview, not something to hand out. Budget the typing time if you want to switch this year.
Every version gets a matching paper
Multi-version assessments and question papers were built to work together. Generate five shuffled variants and you get five question papers, each ordered to match its own answer sheet.
Print in pairs, not in piles
Print each version's question paper and answer sheet as a single stack rather than printing all the papers and then all the sheets. A student holding version A's questions and version B's sheet produces a score that looks like a real failure rather than a mix-up — and you won't spot it until you're grading.
Two new integrations
Schoology is now supported. Import your sections and rosters, and scores go back to the Schoology gradebook. Setup needs an administrator once, then it's per-teacher from there.
Clever is the district-scale one. Rosters come from Secure Sync, sign-on runs through Instant Login, and grade passback to your district's LMS goes through Clever LMS Connect. If your district already rosters other apps through Clever, most of the groundwork is done.
That brings the list to Canvas, Google Classroom, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, Schoology, Clever and Learnosity — so if your school switched platforms over the summer, it's worth checking the list before assuming you're back to CSV exports.
Answer sheets print in 13 languages
Choose a language at print time and the instructions and labels on the sheet come out translated. Your questions stay in whatever language you wrote them — PaperScorer doesn't machine-translate assessment content, and shouldn't.
The practical use is newcomer and ELL students who can read the question fine but lose marks misreading how to fill in the form. You can print a Spanish set for four students and an English set for the rest of the class from the same assessment, scoring against the same key.
Ten minutes before your first quiz
The one thing that hasn't changed
Rosters. They're still the thing that quietly breaks in week three, and re-importing is still the fix.
Whatever you connect PaperScorer to, the class list you imported in August will not match the class you're teaching in October. Students transfer, names get corrected, schedules shift. Re-import before a test rather than reconciling a stack of unmatched sheets afterwards — it takes seconds and it's the single highest-value habit in the whole workflow.
Key takeaway
Question papers are the change most worth your time this year, especially if you run multi-version tests. Beyond that: two new integrations, translated answer sheets, and the same roster advice as always — re-sync before the test, not after.
Where to start
If you only do one thing: open an assessment you already built, generate a question paper, and print it alongside its answer sheet. That's the whole feature, and it tells you in two minutes whether it changes how you build tests this year.
Setting up for the year?
The back-to-school guide covers the full sequence — accounts, integrations, templates, and a dry-run scan — in the order that makes each step easier.
See the guide
