Until now PaperScorer printed the answer sheet and you brought your own question paper — a Word document, a photocopied packet, something from last year. That worked, but it meant the questions and the answer key lived in two different places, and keeping them in step was your problem.
Now you can print both from the same assessment. Generate question paper produces a printable paper straight from the question and answer text already stored on the assessment.
What it produces
A clean, printable document containing your questions and answer choices, laid out for paper. Open it to view, print it, or save it as a PDF — the same three options you have for answer sheets.
Two things you can control:
Columns. Choose how many columns the questions print in. Two columns suits short multiple-choice items and cuts your page count roughly in half; one column suits longer stems and anything with a lot of text.
A logo. Add your school or district logo to the top of the paper, either by pasting a public image URL or uploading a file. If you supply both, the upload wins. Pasted URLs aren't hotlinked — PaperScorer fetches the image and hosts its own copy, so the paper still prints correctly if the original URL moves or disappears.
Every version gets its own paper
This is the part that matters most if you use multi-version assessments.
Shuffled versions were always slightly awkward to print, because the answer sheet knew about the shuffle and your question document didn't. Version B's question 7 wasn't the same item as version A's question 7, so you needed a separate document per variant and a system for keeping them straight.
Question papers are generated per version. Version B's paper is ordered to match version B's answer sheet. You print the pair, hand them out together, and the scan reads which version it is regardless.
Print the pair, keep them together
The habit worth building is printing each version's question paper and answer sheet as one stack rather than printing all the papers and then all the sheets. A student with version A's questions and version B's sheet will produce a score that looks like a genuine failure rather than a mix-up.
It regenerates when you edit the assessment
A cached PDF that silently goes stale is worse than no PDF, so PaperScorer tracks the content the paper was generated from. Edit a question, change an answer choice, add an item — the stored paper is no longer valid, and you get a fresh one rather than the old file.
Each assessment shows when its paper was last generated, so you can tell at a glance whether what you're about to print reflects your latest edits.
If some questions have no text
PaperScorer has never required question text. If you were only using it to grade an existing paper test, you may have entered nothing but the answer key — which is a perfectly good way to work, and still is.
Those assessments can still produce a question paper, but it will print placeholder filler where the text should be: [Question text] in place of a stem, [Choice A] in place of an option. Before it generates, PaperScorer tells you which items are incomplete and whether they're missing the question, the answers, or both.
Placeholders are a scaffold, not an output
A paper full of [Question text] is useful as a layout preview — you can see your columns and pagination before writing anything. It is not something to hand a class. If you plan to print question papers, budget the time to type the stems in; there's no way around it, because PaperScorer can't invent the question you meant to ask.
Printing a question paper
Who this is for
Teachers building assessments from scratch in PaperScorer. One place to write the test, one place to print it, one answer key that can't drift out of sync with the questions.
Anyone running multi-version tests. This is the change that makes shuffled versions genuinely practical rather than an exercise in document management.
Schools that want papers to look institutional. The logo option exists because a benchmark test that goes home to parents shouldn't look like it came out of a word processor at 11pm.
Key takeaway
Generate a printable question paper from the text already on your assessment, in one or two columns, with your logo. Each shuffled version gets a matching paper, and editing the assessment regenerates it rather than serving a stale file.
Try it on your next test
Open an assessment that already has question text, generate the paper, and print a single copy alongside its answer sheet. That's the whole loop — and it's the same dry-run habit worth keeping for any new print job.
See what else PaperScorer prints
Answer sheets in 13 languages, up to five shuffled versions, and now question papers — all from one assessment.
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