What is TestInvite?

The Platform at a Glance

TestInvite is a cloud-based online assessment platform designed for organizations that need to evaluate people at scale. Whether you are screening job applicants, certifying professionals, running entrance examinations, or measuring training outcomes, TestInvite gives you a single environment to build tests, run assessments, monitor sessions, and analyze results.

Everything runs in the browser — no software to install on your servers or your candidates' computers. The platform is multi-tenant: each organization gets its own isolated workspace, data, and branding.

The Core Workflow

At the highest level, using TestInvite follows these steps:

1. Build a Test — Create a test by adding questions from the question bank, generating them with AI, or creating them on the fly. Tests can include a fixed set of questions or use question pools and other randomization features to deliver a unique set of questions to each test taker.
2. Run an Assessment — Create a Task — the blueprint for your assessment. It defines who can participate, when, under what proctoring conditions, and what steps candidates will go through. Invite candidates and the assessment begins.
3. Invite Candidates — Send candidates an invitation link by email or share a direct URL so they can register themselves. They authenticate and go through their assessment in the browser.
4. Monitor Live (optional) — While the assessment is running, watch every active candidate in real time. See who has started, who is still in progress, and who has submitted. For proctored assessments, view live webcam and screen streams, chat directly with a candidate, flag suspicious activity, or terminate a session if needed.
5. AI-Powered Cheating Detection Analysis (Optional): Configure your tests to have AI automatically analyze all recorded proctoring materials, identify and flag suspicious behavior, and present the findings for your review. You remain in full control of the final verdict.
6. Evaluate (optional) — For tests with open-ended questions — text, audio, or video responses — reviewers can manually score answers, apply pre-built rubrics for structured and consistent grading, or confirm and adjust evaluations already performed by AI.
7. View Results — Once assessments are submitted, results are instantly available. View individual score reports, aggregate analytics, per-dimension breakdowns, and export data for reporting. Configure test reports with custom scoring mechanisms such as performance levels and pass/fail criteria or fully customize every aspect of the report to match your branding and reporting requirements.
8. Share Results (optional) — Publish results back to your candidates. Configure exactly what each test-taker sees: a score report, a certificate of completion, a full review of their answers with correct solutions and feedback, or any combination. Candidates access their results through their personal portal.
9. Analyze — Go beyond pass/fail. Explore item-level statistics to see which questions were too easy, too hard, or poorly discriminating. Identify candidate strengths and weaknesses through competency breakdowns. Find top performers, review score distributions and standard deviation, and use the insights to improve your tests for the next run.

Who Uses TestInvite?

TestInvite is built for any organization that evaluates people. Common use cases include:

• HR and Recruitment Teams — Pre-employment screening, cognitive ability tests, job knowledge assessments, and video-proctored remote hiring exams.
• Training Companies — End-of-course assessments, certification exams, and training-effectiveness measurement with detailed competency scoring.
• Universities and Schools — Online entrance examinations, placement tests, and proctored mid-term or final exams for distance-learning programs.
• Professional Certification Bodies — High-stakes credentialing exams with AI-assisted proctoring, secure question banks, and candidate portal management.
• Corporate L&D Departments — Skills gap analysis, compliance training assessments, and ongoing competency measurement across teams.

Key Concepts

Before diving into the platform, it helps to understand the following terms. They appear throughout this guide and inside the application itself.

Organization

Your Organization is your private workspace on TestInvite. All data — questions, tests, candidates, results — belongs to a single organization. You can invite teammates to collaborate within your organization, each with a specific role that controls what they can see and do.

Test

A Test is a template that defines a set of questions, their structure (sections and pages), timing, navigation rules, and scoring logic. A Test by itself is not delivered to candidates — it is run through a Task.

Question Bank

The Question Bank is your organization's central library of questions. Every question created in TestInvite — whether written directly inside a test or added from the bank — is stored here and can be reused across multiple tests.

Task

A Task is the blueprint for an assessment. It defines how the evaluation is structured and delivered — which tests are included, with what access rules, proctoring settings, and candidate-facing steps. When you invite candidates to a Task, each candidate goes through an Assessment based on that blueprint.

Assessment

An Assessment is the complete evaluation process a candidate goes through within a Task. It may consist of one or many individual test sessions, depending on how the Task is configured. The Assessment is what the candidate experiences from start to finish — instructions, checks, testings, and the final result.

Candidate

A Candidate is a person who has been registered to a Task — either added or invited by your organization, or self-registered by filling in a form on the Task's public access page if self-registration is enabled. A candidate exists in the system from the moment they are registered, regardless of whether they have started or completed an assessment. Their profile stores their full assessment history and results within your organization.

Plans & Credits

TestInvite operates on a subscription model. Each Plan is a yearly recurring subscription that determines which features your organization can access. A free trial plan is available without a subscription so you can evaluate the platform before committing.

Credits are the unit of consumption. One credit is consumed each time a candidate starts a test session within an Assessment. Credits are purchased as part of your subscription plan or as top-up packages. 

What Comes Next

The rest of this Getting Started chapter is a short end-to-end journey you can complete in one sitting. You will build a test, run your first assessment, invite a candidate, and see the results — the fastest way to experience the real value of TestInvite.