PottoCBT helps schools set, schedule, deliver and mark computer-based exams, with answers saved as students work, a timer kept by the server, and results released only when the school says so.
Q01Why PottoCBT
PottoCBT replaces or sits alongside paper exams: class tests, continuous assessment, mocks, entrance and end-of-term exams. Pick a problem to see how it is handled.
Questions are written once into a question bank and delivered on screen. Nothing to print, nothing to collect.
ANSWER 01
Questions are written once into a question bank and delivered on screen. Nothing to print, nothing to collect.
Our vision: digital exams that are accessible, reliable, efficient and transparent, for schools, teachers and students.
Q02Core features
From the first question written to the last result released, in one dependable workflow.
One question at a time, with everything a candidate needs to answer accurately and submit with confidence, and nothing else.
The deadline is authoritative. A student's clock can't stretch it.
Students always see whether their answers are saved. Failed saves retry, and a refresh or reconnect restores their work.
Search, reuse and preview questions. Each attempt keeps the version it was sat with.
Practice scores can show at once; formal ones wait for review.
Objective questions are marked automatically, with marks per question and pass marks you configure. Answers that need a teacher's judgement go to a marking queue.
Average, highest and lowest scores, pass rates, and the questions most students got wrong, by exam and class.
Role-based access checked on the server, each school's questions, candidates and results kept apart from every other school's, and an audit log of every publication, submission, score change and release.
Q03Exam day
What a student sees from sign-in to submission, including the moment the network gives out, which is when an exam platform earns its keep.
An example exam · 60 minutes · times illustrative
08:55
The dashboard lists only the exams assigned to this student: upcoming, available, in progress or done.
08:58
Duration, marks, rules and permitted resources come first. The student confirms they are ready, with an access code too if the school uses one.
09:00
The server fixes the finish at 10:00. The countdown follows it, not the computer's clock.
09:14
Each answer saves as it is chosen. Questions can be marked for review, and the palette shows what is answered and what is not.
09:31
The student is told straight away that answers can't sync. Saves keep retrying, and the interruption is recorded for staff.
09:34
The latest saved answers are restored. The deadline is still 10:00. No time gained, none lost.
09:52
A summary shows anything left unanswered. Once confirmed, the paper is in and the answers are locked.
10:00
For anyone still writing, the latest saved answers are submitted under the exam's policy. Once, never twice.
Q04Who it's for
Everyone signs in to the same PottoCBT and sees only what their role allows, checked on the server and not just hidden on screen.
A calm exam room, and only their own exams in it.
Can
Can't
No restricted questions, answer keys, other students' work or unreleased results.
Q05The exam lifecycle
Every exam moves through clear stages, and only the right roles can move it on. Step through them.
STAGE 01 / 10
Questions are chosen and rules set. Nothing is visible to students yet.
Not every exam needs every stage. A practice quiz can be marked and released the moment it is submitted; an end-of-term paper waits for review before anyone sees a score.
Q06The Potto Learning Suite
PottoCBT runs exams and nothing else. The school's records, its lessons and its official results stay where they already live.
PottoCBTEXAMINATIONSSchool records
Records in
PottoCBT is designed to use the school, session, class, subject, student and teacher records Admin already holds to decide who is eligible for each exam.
Formal results
Approved scores out
Finalised scores are designed to pass to Assess under agreed rules. Practice scores never become official results by default.
Teaching & learning
Practice links
Designed to link course topics to practice tests, so students can move from a finished lesson to revision and exam preparation.
Not PottoCBT's job
PottoCBT is not a learning management, fees, payroll or admissions system, and it doesn't replace the school's records. It connects to the Potto products that do those jobs.
Q07Roadmap
Proposed priorities, not a promise of dates
PHASE 01
A complete, dependable exam workflow.
PHASE 02 · PLANNED
More question types, marking by hand, supervision.
PHASE 03 · PLANNED
Added where they are justified.
Q08Questions
How exams run on PottoCBT, how marking and results work, how student data is kept safe, and how to get started.
PottoCBT is a computer-based testing platform that helps schools create, schedule, deliver, mark and manage digital exams and assessments. It is the examination service of the Potto Learning Suite.
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