Create an assessment

What this achieves

An assessment is a set of questions with a pass mark, an attempt limit, and optional timing. It can stand alone or be linked from a course as a quiz.

Required role: Administrator or Instructor.

Before you start

Decide the pass mark, attempts, and whether the assessment is proctored before building it — learners see those settings before they begin. If the questions already exist in a bank, have that bank ready.

Steps

1. Go to Learning → Assessments.
2. Select Create Assessment.
3. Complete the assessment’s details and save. Questions are added after creation.
4. Add the questions.
5. Use Edit settings to set the pass mark, attempts, and timing.
6. Select Publish.

Assessment types

Option	Description
Quiz	A short knowledge check.
Exam	A formal test.
Practical	Assessment of practical work.
Peer Review	Assessed by peers.
Self Assessment	Completed by the learner about themselves.

Static and dynamic

An assessment is built either with a fixed set of questions or by drawing them dynamically, and the list marks each accordingly.

Build Dynamic Assessment creates one that draws its questions rather than holding a fixed list. That is what makes a question bank worth maintaining — the bank is the source and assessments draw from it.

Example: HC Corp UK Ltd holds its compliance questions in a bank and builds a dynamic assessment from it, so correcting a question in the bank does not mean editing every assessment that uses it.

What learners are told before they start

The assessment states its own terms to the learner: how many questions it contains, the total points, the percentage needed to pass, how many attempts they have, and the time limit where one is set.

That transparency is the reason to set these deliberately. A learner reads them before committing an attempt.

Publishing needs at least one question

Publish is unavailable until the assessment has a question, and the interface says so. An empty published assessment would be a test with nothing in it.

Publishing makes the assessment available to assign. It does not assign it to anybody.

Generating with AI

Generate with AI produces questions for you. What it produces is a draft to review and edit, in the same way generated course content is — the assistant does not know your material, your terminology, or which of your answers are still correct.

Read every generated question and its answer key before publishing. A wrong answer key marks correct answers as failures, and the learner has no way to tell.

Archiving

Archive withdraws an assessment from use without deleting it, which preserves the attempts and results people have already produced against it.

What happens next

A published assessment can be assigned to employees, or linked from a course as a quiz content item — where completing it marks that content item complete automatically. Attempts arrive for grading where questions need a human, and completed assessments generate gap reports against job profile requirements.

Related

• Setup Considerations: assessment design
• Build a question bank
• Assign and manage assessments
• Add course content and publish