You can now generate up to five versions of the same assessment. Each version shuffles the question order and the order of answer options, so two students sitting next to each other are not looking at the same sheet.
The part that makes this usable rather than a chore: you still maintain one assessment and one answer key.
How it works
You build the assessment once. When you generate versions, PaperScorer produces up to five variants — labeled A through E, or 1 through 5, depending on your preference. Each variant has its own printed sheet.
The version is printed into the bubble grid. When the sheet is scanned, the engine reads which version it is and reverses the shuffle before scoring. You never tell it which stack is which.
What stays the same across versions
Why we built it
Paper testing has had a real resurgence for a specific reason: it is the most reliable way to know a student produced the work themselves. Take-home and online assessments are trivially completed by an AI, and AI-detection tools are unreliable enough that acting on them is its own risk.
But moving a test back onto paper closes one loophole and reopens an older one. In a room of thirty students at desks, the oldest form of cheating still works fine.
Multi-version closes that gap without giving up anything you moved to paper for.
Where to actually use it
Do not build five versions of a Friday exit ticket. The setup is cheap but not free, and low-stakes formative work does not need it. Save it for unit tests, benchmarks, midterms, and finals — the assessments where a copied answer changes a grade that matters.
The reporting question
The obvious worry with shuffled tests is that your data becomes useless. If question 7 is a different question on every version, what does "question 7 performance" mean?
It means what it always meant. Results are reported against the source assessment, in the original question order. If a concept is weak, it shows up as weak regardless of where that item landed on any given printed sheet. Standards tagging and item analysis work exactly as they did before.
A note on version labels
Versions are labeled A–E or 1–5 based on a preference on your account. This is worth setting before your first print run — not because it is hard to change, but because a drawer of sheets labeled two different ways in the same year is annoying in a way that is entirely avoidable.
Key takeaway
Up to five shuffled variants of one assessment. The version prints into the bubble grid and is detected at scan time. One source assessment, one answer key, and reporting stays in the original question order.
Getting started
Multi-version works on assessments you have already built — you do not need to start over. Open an existing assessment, generate the versions, and print. Then print one of each and test-scan them before you run the full class set, the same as you would with any new print job.
Setting up for the year?
The back-to-school playbook covers when to use multi-version, plus the other setup decisions that are cheaper to make in August than in October.
Read the playbook
