Assessments test and measure what users have learned when completing courses. Administrators and content creators can build them as stand-alone activities or include them as part of a course.
Question banks support assessments by supplying questions, either added manually or automatically via a diagnostic assessment.
LMS Hub sites can create assessments and surveys using pre-existing question banks.
LMS² sites can create bespoke question banks in addition to the existing, allowing the freedom for site administrators to create customised assessments and surveys.
Assessment types
There are a variety of different assessment formats available, detailed in the below table.
Assessment type | Details |
Course assessment | Added as the last module in a course. Blocked until users have completed all other modules prior to the assessment. |
Standalone assessment | Register users directly onto an assessment. |
Course diagnostic assessment | Include at the start of a course to assess what a user already knows prior to directing them through the content.
If a user demonstrates their understanding of the subject matter by reaching or exceeding the set pass mark, they're exempt from completing the content. |
Team diagnostic assessment | Identify skills gaps within a team.
Collect data to identify where to spend training budget or prioritise training activities. |
Personal diagnostic assessment | Create a standalone assessment on the content in a basket without building a course.
Users are registered only to the assessment, with learning recommended based on the skills gaps identified. |
Gap analysis assessment | Identify a user's learning needs. Can be linked to competencies. |
Assessment pass marks
Pass marks for assessments are scored based on each section.
User's need to achieve the relevant score in each section of the assessment to pass the assessment. For example, if the pass score is 80%, user's must obtain 80% in each section, not just the overall assessment score.
If a user doesn't pass the overall assessment, but passes individual sections, the next attempt at the assessment only contains questions based on the failed sections.