Assessment Types - Creating a Marked Assessment

Build a marked assessment on Academy to assess your program participants.

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Written By Donna Hanson-Squires (Super Administrator)

Updated at March 14th, 2025

A Marked Assessment allows learners to submit their responses to be marked by a facilitator or coordinator. Marked Assessments can include:

  • Written short response questions requiring manual marking
  • Auto-marked multiple-choice questions

 

How to create a Marked Assessment

Create a learning object, and select Marked Assessment from the Assessments tab:

 

The settings in each tab are explained below.

 

Marked Assessment > Settings Tab

 

Setting Description
Title The title of your assessment. This will display on the program content page.
Description Add an introduction or description for your assessment. This will display on the program content page.
Completion Requirement

Options are:

  • Summative (included in Gradebook) - this option displays if you have enabled the Gradebook in your program. It means that the participant's assessment mark will contribute to the participant's overall program outcome, as determined in the Gradebook.
  • Required Formative (not in Gradebook) - this option means the assessment is required in order to complete the program, but it does not form part of the participant's overall program score, as it is not included in the Gradebook.
  • Optional Formative (not in Gradebook) - this option means the assessment is not required in order to complete the program.
Must Pass to Complete Toggle this on if the participant must pass the assessment in order to complete the program. 
Assessment Type

Options are:

  • Quiz - only multiple choice questions are allowed and the quiz is marked automatically by the system.
  • Assessment - a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions are allowed. The multiple choice questions are marked automatically by the system, but the short response questions must be marked by a human.
Assessor for Written Questions Here, you can select which roles are responsible for assessing written questions. This can be assigned to the facilitator, coach or coordinator roles.  
Learner Attempts

Options are:

  • Unlimited until passed - this means that the learner can re-attempt the assessment as many times as the need to in order to pass.
  • Single attempt - this means that the learner only gets one attempt, and whatever their result they cannot try again.
  • Limited number of attempts - choose this option if you want to specify the number of attempts the learner is allowed. For example, they can attempt the assessment up to 3 times in order to pass.
Resume Rules

Options are:

  • Resume from next question - if the learner exits the assessment partway through, then when they return to the assessment, they can resume at the next un-answered question.
  • Start new attempt - if the learner exits the assessment part way through, then when they return, they must start again.
Group Questions by Topic Area

If you toggle this option on, then your assessment will have multiple topics. For example, you may have one topic for questions on health and one topic containing questions on safety.

 

You can also use topics to present user scenarios or case studies as a topic before asking questions on that topic.
Pass Criteria

This option is enabled if you have toggled on the Group Questions by Topic Area. Options are:

  • Pass Assessment - In this case, in order to pass the assessment, the learner must answer enough questions correctly across the entire assessment to meet the score benchmark.
  • Pass Each Topic and Pass Assessment - In this case, in order to pass the assessment, the learner must:
    • the learner must answer enough questions correctly across the entire assessment to meet the score benchmark for the assessment as a whole; AND
    • the learner must answer enough questions correctly in each individual assessment topic to meet the score benchmark for each individual topic.
  • Pass Each Topic - In this case, the learner must answer enough questions correctly in each individual assessment topic to meet the score benchmark for each individual topic, in order to pass the assessment as a whole.

 

Marked Assessment > Introduction Tab

This tab in the set up allows you to determine which instructions you want to display to the learner on the first screen of the assessment.

For each instruction option, default instructions for that option are displayed on screen. You can modify each default instruction if you choose.

The instruction screen displays to the learner before they start the assessment. It looks like this:

 

Marked Assessment > Topics Tab

If your assessment has topics, you can add them in this tab, as well as manage the settings for each topic. if you don't have topics, this tab will not appear. 

 

NOTE: You may need to set up your topics in the tab, then create your questions, then RETURN to this tab to finalise the number of questions to ask in each topic, the points per question, and the passmark for each topic.

In the Topics tab, add as many topics as are relevant to your assessment. You can set:

  • Topic Title - this will be displayed to the learner
  • Question Pooling - use this feature to randomise the questions asked in each topic. For example, you can set up 10 questions in a topic, but only ask the learner to answer 5 questions. In this case, the 5 questions for each learner wil be randomly selected from the pool of 10 questions. 
  • Num. Asked - this is the number of questions to be asked in this topic. If Question Pooling is disabled, then this number will equal the number of questions in the topic. You may need to adjust this number AFTER you have created your questions.
  • Points Per Question - this allows you to weight the questions in one topic more highly then the questions in another topic.
  • Pass Mark - this is where you set the number of questions that a learner has to answer correctly in order to pass the topic.

 

Marked Assessment > Questions Tab

Add questions to your assessment using these buttons:

Multiple Choice - Select One means there is only one correct multiple choice option. 

Multiple Choice - Select Many means that the learner must find multiple correct options to be considered correct for the question. There is no “partially correct” if they find one of the correct responses but not all of them.

Single Written Response is used for questions with only one part. 

Multi-Part Written Response can be used for questions with multiple parts. 

 

If you choose to enable the Case Study option, you can add text and images to the topic, and then ask the learner questions about that topic. Here is an example:

The case study information will display above each question that is asked in this topic.

For short response questions, you can include marking criteria (or rubric) to assist the assessor.

 

Marked Assessment > Grading Tab

In the Grading tab, set the successful (pass) and unsuccessful (fail) outcomes for the assessment. 

You can have more than one Successful outcome (for example, Exceeds Expectations and Pass), but you can only have one Unsuccessful/Fail outcome.

 

You will need to:

  • Add the outcomes
  • Give the outcome a title (eg. Distinction, Credit, Pass)
  • Set the number of points a learner has to earn in order to achieve that outcome
  • Write a feedback message to learners who achive that outcome

 

Marked Assessment > Conclusion Tab

The final tab when setting up an assessment is the Conclusion tab.

 

Setting Description
Show overall outcome & Score to learner

Options are:

  • On completion - in this case, the learner's outcome (eg. pass/fail) and their score (eg. 75% will be displayed to the learner when they complete the assessment.
Show topic outcomes to learner

Options are:

  • On completion - In this case, the topic outcomes will display to the learner on completion, regardless of the outcome they achieved.
  • If passed - in this case, the topic outcomes will display to the learner only if they pass the assessment.
Show question outcomes to learner

Options are:

  • On completion - In this case, the question outcomes will display to the learner on completion, regardless of the outcome they achieved.
    • Question outcome only - display the question outcome only (that is, whether they got the question correct or incorrect)
    • Question response details - display the response details (that is, the answer selected by the learner and the correct answer)
  • If passed - In this case, the question outcomes will display to the learner only if they pass the quiz.
  • Hide outcome - In this case, the learner will not be able to see whether they got each individual question correct or incorrect.

 

Preview Your Assessment

Once you have created your assessment, you can preview it from the edit screen of your program:

NOTE: After learners have accessed your program and started submitting assessment attempts, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO EDIT MOST OF THE SETTINGS IN YOUR ASSESSMENT.