The Assessment Path feature in Inspera Assessment has specific known limitations that Authors and Planners should be aware of. 

This article details these limitations across general information, test setup, grading, and the candidate dashboard, providing important context to ensure a smooth assessment process.

General information

• The help tooltips or links inside the product do not open or lead to the correct help documentation. Kindly use the help documentation shared with you as the single source of information for open beta. 
• The only language available in the administrator interface for configuring the assessment and the new candidate dashboard is English. We plan to add translations for other languages in the future.  

Test setup

• A test cannot be added to multiple assessment paths.
• Tests with Multiple Attempts setup are not supported in assessment paths.
• Assessments cannot be assigned to Access Groups.
• Contributors cannot be added to assessments through CSV.
• Contributors added to an assessment are automatically assigned to the linked test. Modifying contributors for tests is possible if needed.
• To control candidate allocation to committees, use edit grading committee in Monitor. Candidates can be assigned to committees automatically or manually.
• Activation of assessments requires:
  • Selection of a grading scale
  • Specification of assessment start and end times
  • Addition of at least one test to the assessment
• When adding tests with start times after end times using create test, a validation error may not show in the assessment interface but will appear when activating the component individually.

Grading

• When enabling grading for assessments, use the Grade type as the main evaluation, and selecting a grading scale is mandatory.
• For assessments with multiple graders:
  • The planner enables marks alignment and thresholds for child tests.
  • Graders align marks for each component.
• Ensure marks are aligned at the child level to calculate the aggregate mark correctly. Failure to align may result in a miscalculated parent score (known bug).
• Equal test weights can't be set automatically but can be adjusted manually. Note limitations when dealing with odd numbers of components.
• Test weights can be changed from the marking tool before any submissions are created, with limitations on changes once the assessment path is graded.
• Threshold values for an assessment can be changed anytime before grading, while the grading scale can be changed until assessment activation.
• When using Test weight for point calculation, the planner sees threshold values as percentages, while the grader sees them as absolute values in the grading workspace.
• If confirmation methods differ between tests and assessments, ignore the validation error when ending a test for confirmation, and grading can proceed as expected.
• Use the same grading scale for assessments and tests to enable automatic grading.
• Collaborative marking on assessments may lead to incorrect grade calculations. Private grading is recommended for the assessment as a whole.

Candidate dashboard

• The only language fully supported is English. Any other languages are not fully supported and there may be missing captions. 
• The marks for manually marked questions in the question set are not shown consistently. The view results page and existing candidate report in the dashboard show marks for automatically marked questions but not for manually marked questions in the question set of a test. 
• The explanations given by the graders for an assessment and its tests are not available for candidates to view. 
• The assessment and its tests appear in both the upcoming and previous sections of the dashboard, regardless of their status. The status of components is currently updated. 

Compatibility with IIB

Assessment Path is compatible with both IIB and SEB. This means that children of an Assessment Path test can be set to be taken on IIB or SEB.

There are two limitations:

• The Room Scan feature does not work, meaning that enabling or disabling this feature will result in the same outcome. The reminder of the assessment and features will work as expected.
• Assessment Path is not compatible with live proctoring.