Create assessments in your Schoology course to assess your students' grasp of the material or evaluate their preparedness for class. Each assessment is automatically graded (unless you've included a subjective question, such as a short answer/essay), providing you with instant and powerful feedback that can help guide your upcoming lesson plans.

You can also manually override grades, grade with rubrics, and customize a wide array of settings for each assessment.

Schoology Guide to Assessments

How to create an assessment

Question Type How is it graded?

Multiple Choice System Graded

True False System Graded or Instructor Graded

Matching System Graded

Ordering System Graded

Fill in the Blank Text System Graded

Fill in the Blank Dropdown System Graded

Fill in the Blank Drag and Drop System Graded

Short Answer / Essay Instructor Graded

Label Image System Graded

Highlight Hotspot System Graded

Highlight Image Instructor Graded

Highlight Text System Graded

Math Short Answer Instructor Graded

Number Line System Graded

Chart System Graded

Assessment Reporting

Assessment Reporting provides immediate feedback based on student responses to assessment questions. The Reporting area provides quick insights into how individual students are performing on an assessment as well as the average for the class, and more.

How to create item banks for assessments

Grading Assessments

After students complete the assessment, you can grade their submissions from the Grading area.

You can grade the assessment By Question or By Student.

To grade student attempts:

1. Open the assessment and click By Student from the Grading area.

2. Click the student submission you want to grade in the table.

The By Student area displays information about students and assessment attempts.

Change the assessment score manually by clicking the score for the assessment in the Gradebook Points field and adding a new score. In this example, the instructor has entered a score of 75 for the assessment. Click clear override to remove the manually entered score.