ASSESSMENT CREATION

Click on the “Create Assessment” button in the assessment dashboard.

2. Once you are on the assessment creation page, you can add the skills of your choice to the assessment. This can be done in two ways:i) select a specific industry / profile / experience level to create your assessment

ii) Add each individual skill one by one to tailor a particular assessment . To do this simply type the name of the required skill in the “Select Skill” area & then select the from the dropdown that appears.

This is how the assessment creation page will look once you have added the required skills. You can enter your assessment’s name in the “Assessment Name” textbox.Click on “Clear” if you want to clear the list of populated skills & start afresh.

Your assessment can be divided into various sections. you can group different skills under different sections and/or merge them under the same section by grouping them under the same section name.Section names can be changed by double-clicking on the default section names appearing under the “Section Name” column .

The “Skill Name” column displays the all the skills that have been added to the assessment. The Source column tells you whethera particular skill has been picked from Mettl’s question banks or whether it is a Custom question bank i.e a bank residing in your own account.“Level” displays the difficulty level. You can choose between easy, medium and difficult levels. Coupled with skills, you can customise the difficulty of a test by having different proportions of easy, medium and difficult questions of a particular skill.

The “Question Type” column displays the type of questions to be included in your assessment. You can select questions among multiple choice (MCQ), fill in the blanks (FITB), true / false (T/F), multiple correct answers (MCA), Coding simulators (Code), Data entry simulators (DES).

“Q#” display the number of questions to be included from a particular skill. While there is a recommendation, you can override it and select more or less questions depending upon your practical requirements by double-clicking on the number displayed in the column & then selecting the number of questions from the dropdown that appears.

The duration column will display the duration in which the questions need to be answered.

The IsTimed column lets you specify choose between imposing individual time limits on the sections or keeping them untimed .The value YES/NO for every skill/section in the “Is Timed” column represents if that section is individually timed or not. An individually timed section means that questions from that particular section would be active for attempting only for the duration mentioned in the “Duration” column for that skill. Once this duration expires the control would automatically move to the next section and you will not be able to re-visit the skill/section whose duration has expired. In case of sections that include more 2 or more skills, the total duration of the section would be the sum of the duration of all the component skills.If you select NO in the “IS Timed” column it means that the section is not timed individually and the questions for that section are active for the entire duration of the assessment and the candidate can keep moving between questions from various sections.Your assessment may consist of all timed sections or all untimed sections or a mixture of timed as well as untimed sections.

Correct grade represents the marks that a candidate will get in case the question is answered correctly. This number can be changed by double-clicking & entering the desired value.

Incorrect grade helps you introduce negative marking for incorrect answers. The default value is zero. But it can be changed by double-clicking. For example, if you want a negative marking of -1 per incorrect answer, just double-click and enter this value here.

Selection helps you customise the selection logic of questions. Currently the options are fixed selection or random selection. With fixed selection, a fixed selected set of questions will be picked up from the question bank every time you take the test. With random selection, different questions will be picked up randomly from the question bank every time you take the test.

‘Select-Q ‘ enables you to select specific questions to be included in your assessment. Click on ‘Select-Q’ & then select the required questions by ticking the checkboxes against those questions from the list of questions that appears.

Under “Advanced Options”, you have the following options:

Assessment Options: Here you can define the instructions that will be visible to the candidates just before the start of the test.

Section Options: This helps you define the instructions for each section. They are displayed when a candidate transitions from one section to another.

Candidate Registration Fields: A test administrator might want to capture additional details of a candidate. This is enabled by customising the candidate registration fields for an assessment wherein you can define as many fields as you want for the registration page of a particular test.

Section Order: This feature allows you to customize the order in which the sections appear in your assessment.

Coding Question Settings: This feature allows you to implement partial scoring for coding questions, where you can customize the scoring logic for coding problems so that the submitted code is evaluated on various different aspects.

You can provide weightages , in terms of percentages, to the various evaluation criteria available.For example, in the screenshot below, 10% of the total marks for the question are assigned to code compilation. Hence, if the submitted code compiles successfully the candidate is awarded 10% of the total marks for that question.

You can also take a look at how your assessment is going to look by clicking on the ”Preview Assessment” button.A new browser window gets opened where your test is loaded.

Once you are done with the customizations, click on the “Create Assessment” button to create the assessment.

You are now directed to the scheduling page, where you need to choose the runtime settings for your assessment. You can change the assessment name & instructions by clicking on the crayon icon next to the assessment name.

You can click on “Update” to save your changes.

The schedule name can also be changed by clicking on the crayon icon against the schedule name.

You can also activate the proctoring options available by ticking the corresponding checkboxes. You can choose between web proctoring and image proctoring. Web proctoring enables you to impose a maximum limit on the number of times the candidate can move away from the test window at any point during the test. In case the candidate exceeds the specified limit, the test is forcibly submitted & this is reflected in the candidate’s report.Image proctoring enables you to capture snapshots of the candidate taking the assessment at regular interval during the entire span of the assessment.. These snapshots are then included in the candidate’s report.

You can also customize the time duration for which your schedule is active. You can choose to keep it “Always On”, in which case it will remain active until deliberately paused from the assessment dashboard.

You can also select “Fixed” & specify a time duration between which the schedule will be active & after which it will automatically be deactivated by the system.

In schedule “Access” you can either select “Open for all” which means that the schedule can be accessed by anybody or a “By invitation” wherein each schedule key is mapped to a specific email id. The “By-invitation” schedule ID works only with the e-mail id that was used for invitation.

You can invite candidates for a test by entering their names & e-mail ids.

Alternatively, you can choose to invite a pre-existing group of candidates. This can be done by clicking on the “Add Candidate from groups” button and selecting the relevant group from the list.Candidate groups can be created in the “Candidates” tab in your account.

You can also control access to the assessment by imposing IP address restrictions.Here you can either select “Single IP Access” & enter the IP address from which you would like to allow the test to be accessed.

Or you can choose “IP Range Access” , and specify the range of IP addresses which are to be allowed to access the test.

Once done with all these customizations, click on “Done” to save your settings & create the schedule.

Your assessment will now start appearing on the assessment dashboard.