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Assign a Test

When you assign a test to your course, you decide its start and end dates, how many times students can attempt the test, if students are shown correctness marks and correct answers, and if students can review test questions after the due date.

Prerequisites
Preview a Test
Edit Test Content
  1. Click the Tests tab in Spark.
  2. Scroll to the test you want and click Assign next to the test name.
  3. Select a course to assign the test to from the Course dropdown menu.
  4. Set a Start Date and Time and End Date and Time for students to take the test.
  5. Click Continue.
  6. Select settings to control test behavior and security, then click Continue.
    Note

    The most restrictive settings are selected by default. If you keep these settings, students cannot review test questions after submitting the test.

    Question attempts
    How many times students can attempt each question.
    Show correctness marks Correct/Incorrect
    After due date
    When students view their test results after the due date, they can see how they did on each question.
    Never
    Students are never shown results for individual questions, only their overall test score.
    Show correct answers
    After due date
    When students view their test results after the due date, they can see the correct answers to questions they got wrong.

    Correctness marks must be enabled to show correct answers.

    Never
    Students are never shown the correct answers.
  7. Select Assign to all students, including students that join the course later.

    Or, select individual students to take the test.

  8. Click Assign.