Sit an assessment

What this achieves

Sitting an assessment means working through its questions and submitting them for scoring. Before you begin you are told how many questions there are, what you need to pass, how many attempts you have, and any time limit.

Required role: Any signed-in user, on assessments assigned to you.

Steps

Open the assessment and read what it tells you about itself.
Select Start Assessment, or Begin Assessment where the assessment is proctored.
Answer each question, using Next and Previous to move.
Use Flag for Review on anything you want to revisit.
Check the navigator for anything Unanswered.
Select Submit Assessment.

You must be assigned it

An assessment you have not been assigned cannot be started, and the screen says so. If you believe you should have it, that is a conversation with whoever assigned your learning rather than a fault.

Attempts are limited. If you have used them all, starting is refused.

Your answers save as you work

Answers save as you go, and the screen shows when they were last saved. A save that fails says so and offers to retry rather than losing your work silently.

The timer submits for you

Where there is a time limit, you are warned at two minutes and again at thirty seconds, and the assessment auto-submits when the timer reaches zero. Anything unanswered at that point stays unanswered.

Use the navigator rather than working strictly in order. It shows answered, unanswered, and flagged counts, so you can spend your remaining time on what is actually outstanding.

Example: James Whitfield flags two questions he is unsure of, answers the rest, then returns to the flagged ones with the time he has left.

Proctored assessments

Some assessments are proctored, and you are told before you begin exactly what that requires. Granting the permissions is part of starting.

Option	Description
Fullscreen	Your browser switches to fullscreen, and leaving it counts as a violation.
Webcam monitoring	Your webcam stays on, and random screenshots are uploaded for proctoring review.
Tab switching	Leaving the tab counts as a violation. The assessment auto-submits after a set number of violations.

You are warned each time a tab switch is detected, and told how many you have used. This is recorded — a proctored attempt keeps a count of violations and shows it alongside your result.

If you decline camera access on an assessment that requires it, you cannot proceed.

Your results

Results are not always immediate. An assessment containing questions that need a person to grade shows as under review, and you are notified when results are available.

Where an attempt is partly graded you may see auto-graded results with a note that questions are still pending. The final score updates once grading finishes, so an early figure is not your final mark.

Assessments inside a course

Where an assessment is linked from a course as a quiz, completing it marks that course item complete automatically — you do not mark it yourself.

What happens next

A submitted assessment is scored automatically where it can be, and anything needing a person goes to a grader. Your result contributes to a gap report against the requirements of a job profile, which is what turns an assessment into development information rather than only a mark.