Test settings

Adjusting test settings gives you full control over the administration and presentation of your assessment and empowers you to ensure fairness, usability, security, and alignment with your measurement goals.

Test settings are divided into four main tabs: Profile, Features, Questions, and Assets.

Profile

In the Profile tab, you can define general metadata and classification for the test:

Test Description: Briefly describe the purpose or contents of the test.

Test Folder: Organize tests by selecting or creating a folder.

Labels: Add reusable labels to classify and filter tests.

Tags: Add tags for categorization.

Favorite: Mark the test as a favorite for easier access.

Features

In the Features tab, users configure how the test behaves during execution:

Test Type: 

• Performance: Focused on right/wrong scoring.

• Inventory: For psychometric or personality assessments.

• Interview: For collecting subjective inputs.

Navigation Control:

• Allow going forward & backward: The default option that allows the test-taker to navigate freely among the sections of the test.

• Allow only going backward: With this option, the test-taker can navigate to sections that have already been visited but can only visit upcoming sections in the given order, without jumping to sections that come after the following section.

• Don't allow going forward and backward: This option prevents the test-taker from freely navigating among the sections of the test. With this option, they can only visit the sections in the given order one by one

Hide Navigation: Optionally hide the navigation bar for a cleaner interface.

Calculator: Enable/disable a built-in calculator for use during the test.

Time Limit: Define a time limit in minutes or seconds. Leave at 0 for no time limit.

Questions

The Questions tab allows you to define evaluation and behavior rules regarding the test items:

Auto Numbering: 

Auto numbering of test questions refers to the automatic assignment of numbers to the questions within a test.

• Auto-number all questions: automatically assigns a unique number to each question in the test, starting from 1 and incrementing by 1 for each subsequent question until the last question in the test.

• Restart auto-numbering in each section: will restart the numbering of questions in each section, starting from 1 and incrementing until the last question of that section is reached. This will apply to all sections within the test.

Mandatory Questions: Define behavior when mandatory questions are left unanswered: 

• Do Nothing: means that the test interface will not take any action if the test-taker tries to leave a required question unanswered, neither warn nor prevent them from moving away from the level.

• Warn: means that the test interface will provide a warning message to the test-taker if they try to leave a required question unanswered, but it will not prevent them from moving away from that level.

• Prevent: means that the test interface will not allow the test-taker to move away from the level without answering all the mandatory questions.

Security Settings: Prevent selection (text copy), print, context menu (right-click), Google Translate, spell check, or include tracking barcodes or QR codes in questions that refer to the test-taker, allowing for tracking in case of screenshot or video recording during the test-taking.

Evaluate By: You can choose to evaluate the answers provided by test-takers for input questions after the test has ended. The evaluation can be done by either providing a percentage score or writing a nominal point value. You can set the default option for evaluating input questions to either percentage score or nominal point value.

Ineffective Questions: By default, all test questions, except for those marked as ineffective, contribute to the scores of a test.

You have the option to mark a question as ineffective by selecting the "Ineffective" option in the Page editor for the corresponding question. You may exclude ineffective questions from numbering as well.

Shuffle Sections: Select the Shuffle sections option if you would like the order of the sections within a section are randomized for each test-taker.

Customize Section Weights: Apply different weights to each section for score calculation.

Assets

The asset library is a central repository of images and other multimedia content that can be made available to test-takers during the test.

Consider using the asset library to provide content or images that you want your test-takers to access during the test. Placing them on a test page will require the test-taker to navigate back and forth between pages, while the asset library provides easy access to all necessary resources in one place.

These assets can be used throughout your test content—such as question prompts, instructions, or contextual aids.