Creating courses

Create a placement test

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A placement test is a short, auto-generated assessment based on a course’s final test. It helps learners:

  • Evaluate their current knowledge of the course content
  • Decide whether to continue with the course or advance to the next level
  • Track progress by comparing placement and final test scores

How to add a placement test

You can only add a placement test if the course’s final test is set up using the autogenerated test option. Placement tests are not available with manually created final tests.

  • Open the course you want to add a placement test to 
  • Click on the yellow ‘add’ button next to course outline and select ‘Test’

 

  • Select ‘Auto-generate test

  • Once you’re happy with the questions, navigate back to the main course page
  • Add ‘Placement test’ 
    • The questions in the placement test will be generated automatically based on the questions in the final test
    • Your course outline should look like this

  • Publish or update the course to make the test available to learners

What learners can do

  1. Take the placement test before starting the course
  2. Review their results and decide whether to continue or advance
  3. Complete the course and take the final test
  4. Compare results to track their progress