Assessments: Assignment Based, Mettl & Custom Link

Assessments are standalone exams that sit outside your course curriculum. You run each one in sessions, can sell attempts, and can link it to one or more courses. This article covers every setting and what learners see.

Assessment types

Go to Assessments and pick a type at the top of the list:

Type	How learners take it	Who evaluates it
Assignment Based	Download your question file and upload one answer file	You, on Edmingle
Mettl	Opens the linked Mettl test in a new tab	Mettl (only shown if Mettl is enabled for your institute)
Custom Link	Opens your external test link in a new tab	You, on Edmingle

The list shows each assessment's Linked Courses, Price, Total Attempts, Unique Attempts and Registered learners. From an assessment's menu you can Edit or Archive it. Archived assessments stay in the list, greyed out, and can be unarchived.

Create an assessment

Click Add Assessment. The form has three sections.

1. Basic Details

• Name: required, up to 50 characters.
• Description: up to 250 characters.
• Thumbnail: a PNG or JPEG image.
• File (Assignment Based only): required. The question paper learners download. PDF, DOC, DOCX, ZIP or RAR, up to 100 MB.
• General Instructions: required. Shown to learners before they start.

2. Results & Scoring

• Total Marks (not for Mettl, which supplies its own): required.
• Passing Percentage: required, 0 to 100.
• Result Declaration (not for Mettl):
  • Declare Manually (default): results are published only when you declare them.
  • Declare Automatically: results are published as soon as an attempt is evaluated.
• Result Display:
  • Show Marks and Status (Pass/Fail) (default)
  • Show Only Status (Pass/Fail): learners see whether they passed, but not their marks.
• Allow Attempts After Passing: on by default. Turn it off to stop learners attempting again once they have passed.

3. Pricing

• Allow learners to purchase this assignment: on by default. Turn it off if learners should only get the assessment through a linked course.
• Allowed Attempts Per Purchase: required, 1 to 10.
• Select a conducting branch: required. The branch that runs the assessment.
• Attempt Validity: the number of days a learner has to use their attempts. Unused attempts expire after that. Leave it empty for no limit.
• Price: an amount per currency, with an optional cut price to show a discount. Use Add more currency to sell in more than one currency.

Click Save Changes.

Sessions

A session is a window in which learners can take the assessment. Learners see sessions as Assessment Slots. Open an assessment to find Active Sessions and Completed Sessions, then click Add New Session.

• Session Name: required.
• Custom link (Custom Link type): the URL learners are sent to.
• Access Time Format (not for Mettl): Anytime, or Start Time & End Time with a start and end date and time. Outside that window, learners see "Not in current time period".
• Mettl Link (Mettl type): paste the Mettl test link and click Verify. Once verified, the session shows the exam details from Mettl: number of questions and sections, total marks, duration, and Mettl's own schedule.

You can edit or delete a session later.

Evaluate attempts

Open a session to see every learner's attempt. From an attempt's menu:

• Evaluate (or Re-Evaluate): see when the test was taken, the finish type, time taken, current marks and result status. Enter Alter Marks (it cannot exceed the total) and Give Remarks, then save. Learners can read your remarks with their attempt.
• View Attempt (not for Custom Link): see the file the learner uploaded and any comments, and download the file.

Add submissions in bulk

Use Add Submissions to upload marks from a CSV file:

1. Download the students list. It contains everyone registered for the session.
2. Fill in marks and remarks. Keep the userID column, keep marks below the total marks, and keep remarks to 1,024 characters.
3. Upload the file.

Declare results

When Declare Manually is set, click Declare Results on the session to publish its results to learners. If you need to take them back, use Unpublish Results. View History shows the Result Declaration History for the session.

Learners

The assessment's Learners tab lists every learner with their contact, attempts used out of attempts allowed, validity and highest score. When a learner has used all their attempts, click Allow Retest to give them another chance.

Link an assessment to a course

On the course's details, use Linked Assessments to select one or more assessments. Then you can:

• Drag them to set the order learners see.
• Make Prerequisite: learners must pass this assessment before the ones after it unlock.
• Unlink Assessment: remove it from the course.

What learners see

1. In the course, learners open Assessments to see the linked assessments in order. Assessments after an unpassed prerequisite are locked.
2. Opening an assessment shows its general instructions, passing percentage, attempts left and its Assessment Slots.
3. They pick a slot, accept the declaration and click Attempt Now:
   • Assignment Based: they download the assignment file, upload one answer file (up to 500 MB; several files must be zipped) and can add comments, then submit.
   • Mettl and Custom Link: the test opens in a new tab.
4. Their Past Attempts show the date, time taken, result, marks (unless you chose Show Only Status) and your remarks. Until results are declared they see "Results not declared".
5. When no attempts remain, they can click Buy Attempts to purchase more, if purchasing is allowed.

What's next

For auto-scored quizzes inside a course, including practice mode, see Online Exercises & Tests: Settings Guide.