Course Materials: Assessments (Students)

Assessments are a type of graded material used by instructors to evaluate their students' comprehension and readiness. Students can access their assessments from anywhere they can access other graded materials:

• The Materials list on the main Course page
• The Upcoming feed
• The Calendar
• The Notifications feed

To take an assessment from your browser:

1. Click the name of the assessment.
2. Click Start Attempt.
3. Answer the questions appropriately.
4. Click Review to review your answers.
5. Click Finish when you have completely reviewed your answers.
6. Click Yes to submit your assessment attempt. Click No if you need to continue a review of your attempt.

You can only have one attempt in progress at a time.

Taking the assessment

Click the question numbers to navigate the assessment. Alternatively, you can navigate to and complete each of these functions using the keyboard Tab, arrow, and Enter keys

Different actions are available to you when you answer different types of questions. Use the following:

• Button selector to answer multiple choice and true or false questions
• Drag and drop option to answer ordering, matching, and label image questions
• Drawing tool to highlight image questions
• Math keyboards to respond to math short-answer questions
• Rich text editor to answer short-answer and essay questions, and to insert images using the image tool 

Assessments can be timed or allow multiple submissions. The particular settings of each assessment will vary depending on the instructor and the course.

As you answer questions, your work is saved automatically. Submit your completed attempts from the review page.

You can open the review page at any time. Click the Review icon, or click Review from the last question in the assessment.

You can also enable additional accessibility features. Click the Accessibility icon, then you can adjust the color contrast or font size of the assessment. Additionally, click the Full Screen icon to display the assessment in full-screen mode.

Flag any questions for review with the Flag tool. Click the Flag icon within any question to add it to the flagged list. Click the Flag icon again to remove a flag from a question. You can access all flagged questions from the Review page.

Assessment tools

Assessments can include several tools to assist you while completing the assessment.

• Use the Eliminate Choices tool to rule out incorrect answers and help determine the correct one. Click the Eliminate Choices icon, and click any answer choice you want to eliminate.
• Use the Protractor tool to populate a digital protractor on the page while attempting the assessment.
• Use the Notepad tool to take notes during an assessment:
• Click the Rubric icon and link to display the rubric assigned for subjective questions.

Reviewing grades and submissions

After you complete the assessment, you can access grades for assessments without subjective questions (short-answer or essay questions) in the Grades area.

Additionally, you can access your submissions from the assessments page. If your instructor has allowed for multiple attempts, the number of submitted and remaining attempts is displayed when you click into the assessment. 

Previous Attempts displays any previously submitted assessments with the following information:

• The number of the Attempts, starting with the most recently attempted assessment.
• Each attempt Status will be In Progress or Submitted.
• Length of Time Spent on the attempt.
• Last Modified: A timestamp that indicates when you Last Modified an assessment attempt. This can be helpful when resuming an assessment. 
• If your instructor has enabled the permission to access submissions, choose the preferred Action. Click View to open a completed attempt, or Resume to open and continue taking an assessment in progress. Currently, all In Progress assessment attempts are resumable.

The submissions page displays the points earned over the number of points possible for each question, as well as the total points earned for the assessment.