Authors can turn course materials they already hold into a complete draft exam, ready to review, customise and approve in Cirrus as usual.
Cirrus Assessment has announced a new partnership and integration with Examplary, an EU-based company that focuses exclusively on education and assessment. The integration brings Examplary’s purpose-built AI authoring technology directly into the Cirrus platform.
Item writing is one of the most time-consuming parts of assessment development, and it depends on specialist input that is always in high demand. Through the new integration, authors can upload existing course or learning materials and use Examplary to generate a complete first draft within Cirrus. Questions are grounded in the material supplied, with the author setting the assessment scale and taxonomy to suit the intended exam. For open questions, Examplary also generates rubrics, scoring criteria and marking guidance. Nothing uploaded through the integration leaves the EU, and none of it is used to train AI models.
The resulting questions are created as standard Cirrus items, so the full history of who generated, edited and approved them stays in Cirrus alongside everything else. Assessment teams can continue using the review and approval processes they already rely on, without moving content between systems or introducing a separate authoring workflow. Subject matter experts remain in control of the final assessment and can focus their time on checking accuracy and relevance.
“Our customers run exams that decide careers and qualifications, so authoring cannot come at the cost of oversight. There are plenty of AI tools that will generate questions. We chose Examplary because it is built for education and assessment, and because it works from your own syllabus and source materials. Think of it as an assistant that prepares a first draft. Everything it produces is transparent and editable on Cirrus, which keeps authors’ judgement and subject expertise at the centre of the process,” said Jeroen Fransen, Head of Product at Cirrus Assessment.
“Institutions see the potential of AI-assisted authoring immediately. Their first question is always what happens to the material they upload. It stays in their own workspace, encrypted, in Europe, and none of it is ever used to train models. For us, building for education means building for trust,” said Tobias de Graaf, co-founder of Examplary.
For certification providers, universities, awarding bodies and other organisations responsible for substantial assessment programmes, the integration can shorten the route from source material to review-ready content. Item bank size has long been the constraint on approaches such as linear on-the-fly testing, where every candidate sits a different form drawn from a large pool of items. Generating items at volume makes that a realistic option for teams who could not previously sustain it.
The integration is available to Cirrus customers now, with setup arranged through the customer’s Cirrus contact.
About Cirrus Assessment
Cirrus specialises in high-performance online assessment with guaranteed stability, industry-leading security and dedicated support: no stress, no surprises, just certainty. Because assessment is our sole focus, we bring a depth of expertise that lets us work as true partners, delivering assessments tailored to each organisation’s needs.
With ISO 27001:2022 certification, 99.9% uptime and a future-ready platform, we protect assessment integrity today while ensuring customers are ready for tomorrow. Our customers include awarding bodies, professional testing organisations, universities and corporate learning and development teams across the world.
Cirrus Assessment was founded in 2013 and is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Learn more at cirrusassessment.com.
About Examplary
Examplary builds AI-powered assessment tooling for education, covering both adaptive practice and testing.
Working from their own source materials, educators can intuitively create practice spaces that adapt to each student’s progress, give personalised feedback, and show teachers where the class stands. They can also author assessments with a wide range of question types and rubrics, and get suggestions for marking and feedback, whether the assessment was taken digitally or on paper.
All content stays in the institution’s own workspace, encrypted and hosted in Europe, and is never used to train models. Examplary was founded in 2025 and is based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and its team has been building education technology for over a decade. Learn more at examplary.ai.
