Create an Itembank Assessment

This article will guide you through creating an assessment. From the dashboard page, click the Create Assessment tile.


Fill in the assessment details:

  1. Name (required): This will help identify your assessment and can help when someone else is searching for your assessment.
  2. Grade: Select a grade(s) for the assessment. While it is not required, defining a grade will make it easier to search for this assessment later on.
  3. Subject: Select a subject for the assessment. While it is not required, defining a subject will make it easier to search for this assessment later on.
  4. Access Level (require): This refers to who will be able to search for your assessment. Be careful when selecting an option other than private, which will expand the scope of users who can the assessment after it is published.
    1. Private: Only you will be able to search for and see the assessment
    2. Site: Anyone at your school will be able to search for the assessment and administer their own copy.
    3. District: Anyone in your district will be able to search for this assessment and administer their own copy.
    4. Public: Anyone using Classify Learning will be able to search for this assessment and administer their own copy.
  5. Tags: Enter one or more tags to define additional properties for this assessment. While it is not required, defining a subject will make it easier to search for this assessment later on.
  6. Owner Settings: These settings apply to other users of your assessment. Here, you have the ability to adjust if other users can share the assessment, duplicate the assessment, manually override auto-scored items, and administer the assessment beyond the owner-created test window.
  7. Assessment Type: The default selected option will be advanced assessment. The may be more types to select from depending on what is enabled or not.
  8. Once finished setting the proper values, click the save button.

You will be taken automatically to the Questions tab within the newly created assessment. You will be view the assessment build screen, which allows you to manage questions and sections for an assessment. To add a question to an assessment, click the Add Question button. You will be presented with two ways to add a question:

  1.  Choose the Add from Question Bank option to choose from existing items in the question bank.
  2. Choose Create New Question to author your own question and add that to your assessment.


When adding a question from the question bank, use the filers on the left hand side of the screen to narrow down the questions list to a subset you want to search for. Once you see an item(s) that you want to add, do the following:

  1. Use the checkbox on the question to select the question you want to add.  All selected questions will be highlighted in gold.  
  2. Once all questions are selected, scroll to the bottom, choose Insert Questions into an Assessment in the dropdown in the bulk action bar.
  3. Click on the Go button.


Your list of items will appear on the assessment builder page. Once questions exist on your assessment, you can perform a number of options:

  1. Click on add section to create a section for this assessment. One thing to note, if a question is part of a section, then all questions need to be in a section. You cannot have some of the questions in a section and some questions not in section.
  2. Click on the hamburger icon next to each item to drag/reorder the items on your test.
  3. Click the cog wheel to delete an item you have chosen and no longer want on your test. 


When all the questions have been added and the assessment is considered complete, perform the following two steps:

  1. Click Preview to view a live version of the assessment exactly as a student would see it with all test settings and accommodations.
  2. Click Publish once the assessment is fully complete and no more edits will be made.  NOTE: An assessment can be unpublished until a student rosters to an administration. Once a student is added to an administration, the assessment cannot be unpublished. Assessments can only be edited when they are unpublished.

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