An Assessment Path serves as a container for multiple tests, providing a structured way to organize and manage an overall assessment. It's designed to measure a candidate's knowledge, skills, or abilities over a period of time, functioning in either a formative (assessment for learning) or summative (assessment of learning) context.

This article provides an introduction to Assessment Paths, outlines their purpose and key prerequisites, and guides you through the basic steps for creating and setting up a new Assessment Path.

Create an Assessment Path

You'll begin setting up your Assessment Path in the Deliver module.

1. In the Deliver module click Create new test.
2. Select Assessment path.

You will now go through several steps to set up your Assessment Path: Setup, Contributors, Candidates, Committees, Grading, Grading workflow, and Candidate experience. This article focuses on the initial Setup phase.

Setup

The Setup section provides the foundational configuration for your Assessment Path.

1. Assessment name: Add a name for your Assessment Path. This will be shown in the candidate dashboard under Introduction.
2. Access Group: Select an Access Group for the path.
3. Short summary: Write a brief, one-line summary of the course or assessment. This has a maximum of 160 characters and appears in the candidate dashboard under Introduction.
4. Test information: Add general curriculum descriptions or other relevant information. This is displayed in the candidate dashboard under Test information.

Setting path time and duration

You can define the overall start and end times for the entire Assessment Path, referred to as the Assessment level.

1. To set a start time, select Start date and time.
2. To set an end time, select End date and time.

Important Note: Each individual test within the Assessment Path also has its own start and end times. These times must fall within the overall start and end times of the Assessment Path. In other words, a test can only be accessed during its specific timeframe within the larger timeframe of the Assessment Path.

Activating your Assessment Path

Once you have completed the basic setup, you can activate your Assessment Path.

Click Activate path for the Assessment Path.