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Short answers where you are, not a manual somewhere else. If three sentences do not do it, there is more behind the link — and a person to ask underneath that.
Printing a sheet
Printing the sheet so it scans
Print at 100% — turn off ‘fit to page’, which shrinks the sheet and moves every bubble. Check that all four black corner squares came out whole. Plain white paper, one side, no scaling.
Bublio finds the sheet in your photo using the four black squares in the corners. If the printer shrinks the page to fit its margins, those squares move — and everything else moves with them, so the marks no longer line up with the questions.
Almost every print dialog has this switched on by default, under a name like ‘Fit to page’, ‘Shrink to fit’ or ‘Scale to fit’. Set it to 100%, ‘Actual size’ or ‘None’.
If a corner square is cut off or faint, the sheet may still scan — Bublio can work from three — but it is the first thing to check when a sheet is refused.
Scanning
Batch, one at a time, or use my phone
Batch is for a stack: photograph one sheet after another and every result appears in a list. One at a time is for a single paper you want to watch closely. Use my phone sends the camera to your phone while the results stay on this screen.
Reviewing a sheet
A mark Bublio would not guess
Bublio holds back any answer it cannot read confidently rather than guessing at it. You will see the actual photograph of that mark and choose what it says. Nothing is graded on a guess, which is why the number Bublio gives you can be trusted.
Two bubbles filled, a half-rubbed-out answer, a tick outside the circle — a person can usually tell what was meant, and a scanner that decides on its own will sometimes be confidently wrong.
So Bublio does not decide. The sheet still saves, the rest of the answers still grade, and the unclear question waits for you with the photograph of the mark beside it.
This is the one place where being slower is the whole point. A teacher who has to check three marks in a stack of 120 still finished in a few minutes; a teacher who finds a wrong grade in March has lost something much harder to get back.
Results
Releasing results
Results are yours until you release them — nobody outside your class sees a mark before that. Releasing is what makes them count and what lets slips go home. You can keep marking and re-release; the old figures are replaced, not hidden.
Plan and billing
What a plan actually limits
A plan limits how many exams a school can run in a term, not how many students sit them or how many sheets you scan. Practice runs never count. If you reach the limit, everything you have already made keeps working.
Printing a sheet
Personalised sheets
A personalised sheet has one student's name already on it, so nobody bubbles a number wrongly and no paper arrives unattached. You print one per student instead of a stack of identical blanks.
Scanning
A sheet that did not match a student
The sheet is safe and graded — it simply has no name on it yet. Pick the student from the list and it attaches. It happens when the student number was left blank, filled in wrongly, or is not on your roster.
Scanning
Scanning with no signal
Keep scanning. Sheets are read on the phone itself and held there until there is a connection, and the count on screen is what is already safe. It never goes down.
Building an exam
Exam, quiz or quick check
This decides whether the results join a student's term average or stay a check for you alone. Quick checks and practice never count towards grades; exams and tests do.
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Paper size
Pick what your printer actually has in the tray, because the sheet is laid out for this size and printing it on another moves every bubble. Sheets already printed keep working — only new ones change.
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Answer style
Multiple choice, true or false and number answers are all read by the camera and marked for you. Written answers are marked by you, on screen, with the photograph of the answer beside them.
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How many options
How many bubbles a student chooses between — A to D is four. Fewer options fit more questions on a page; more options make guessing less likely.
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Marks per question
What this question is worth. Bublio adds them up for the total, so a paper out of 20 is twenty marks spread however you like, not twenty questions.
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Accepting near-enough numbers
For a number answer, this is how far out a student may be and still be right — useful where rounding is reasonable. Leave it empty and only the exact number is marked correct.
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How many digits in a student number
Match this to the numbers your school already uses, so students bubble the number they know. It has to be the same on the sheet and on your roster or the paper arrives unattached.
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Shuffled papers
The same questions in a different order, so neighbours cannot copy — each paper is marked against its own order automatically. Every version is printed with its letter already filled in, so a mixed stack sorts itself.
Still stuck?
Every screen in Bublio has a “Report a problem” button that sends us what you were doing, which exam, and what the app saw — so nobody has to describe a failure they could not see.
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