Setup > About the Subjects screen > Setting up Surpass Luma

Setting up Surpass Luma

IMPORTANT: Surpass Luma is not available by default. If you are interested in using this functionality, contact your Surpass Customer Success Manager.

Surpass Luma can generate complete Multiple Choice questions including question stems, answer options, and correct answers.

To learn how item authors can use Surpass Luma in Item Authoring, read Generating Multiple Choice questions with Surpass Luma.

IMPORTANT: AI is prone to hallucination. It is essential you review any generated content before using it in a live test.

This article explains how to enable Surpass Luma at subject-level and provide it with additional guidance in the Subjects screen of Setup.

1. Enable Surpass Luma in Setup > Centres

Surpass Luma is enabled at centre-level. To enable Luma, go to Setup > Centres.

Select Edit in the Centre Details panel to open the Edit Centre Details dialog.

Select Surpass Luma. You must agree to the linked contractual obligations before selecting Enable Surpass Luma in the Confirm Surpass Luma dialog.

NOTE: For more information on editing centres in the Centres screen, read ‘4. Edit the centre’s settings’ in Editing a centre.

2. Go to the Subjects screen in Setup

To view the Subjects screen in Setup, go to Setup > Subjects.

TIP: For more information about the Subjects screen, read About the Subjects screen in Setup.

3. Choose a subject in the Subjects list

Choose a subject in the Subjects list.

4. Select Edit in the Surpass Luma panel

The Surpass Luma panel displays the chosen subject’s Surpass Luma settings.

Select Edit to view and edit the Surpass Luma settings.

5. Configure Surpass Luma settings

The Surpass Luma dialog displays the available settings for Surpass Luma.

Refer to the following table for information on each setting:

Setting	Description
Enabled	Determines whether Surpass Luma is enabled for your subject. Surpass Luma must first be enabled at centre-level, read ‘Edit the centre’s settings’ in Editing a centre for more information.
Subject	Provide Luma with information about your subject to help it generate more specific and accurate content.
Question Stems	Provide Luma with information about the standard format and style of question stems in your subject to help it generate better question stem suggestions.
Answer Options	Provide Luma with information about the standard format and style of answer options in your subject to help it generate better answer option suggestions.
Generation Style	Controls Luma’s generation style: Strict – Generates conventional questions with minimal variations, ideal for ensuring consistency. Balanced – Produces standard questions with some variation in structure and phrasing. Creative – Allows or more inventive or less typical question content.
Domain Knowledge	Select Add Data Source to upload DOCX, TXT or PDF files for Surpass Luma to use as data sources when generating content, up to 200MB (20MB per file). WARNING: Your organisation must either own or have the appropriate licence to copy and use all data that you upload into Surpass Luma. You must further ensure that you do not upload the personal data of any person into Luma. By uploading data for use in Luma, you are representing to Surpass that the uploaded data complies with these requirements. Please also be aware that if uploaded documents contain bias or discriminatory language, then Surpass Luma may reflect this in its outputs. NOTE: Item authors can also attach source material to individual items as a further data source. Choose whether to Limit content generation to domain knowledge so that Luma only refers to the uploaded domain knowledge for your subject and not the internet. If limiting content generation, you can also choose to Limit distractor generation to domain knowledge.

6. Save your settings

Select Save Changes to save the Surpass Luma settings for your subject.