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An assessment is formal work your teacher sets for you to complete on your own. Unlike a live quiz, you work at your own pace and your answers are saved for your teacher to review. Your submission is tied to your ChimeEdu account — you never type in your name.

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Starting an assessment

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Find it

Assessments waiting for you appear on your dashboard under My Assessments, each with a badge — New, Due today, Overdue, or Make-up open. You can also open the link your teacher shared.Your dashboard only shows work you can still do. An assessment leaves it as soon as you hand it in, and also once its deadline passes with no make-up open — so an empty My Assessments means you’re up to date, not that something has gone missing. Everything you’ve handed in stays on My Results.
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Sign in

The assessment page shows who you’re signed in as — your name, school email and avatar. On a shared or lab computer, check it’s really you; there’s a Not you? Sign out link if it isn’t.
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Start

If you’re enrolled in the classroom, one click starts the assessment. If you’re signed in but not in that classroom yet, the same click enrolls you and starts it. If you’re signed out, check your school email for your enrollment link, or sign in if you already have an account.
No account that works today? If your teacher set up password-only access for you, you’ll have an email with a link and a one-time password. The link expires 2 hours after your teacher created it. If you’re under 13 and your account is still waiting for a parent’s approval, this is how you take the assessment in the meantime.

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Working through the questions

You might see any of five question types: multiple choice, true/false, image select (pick from a grid of pictures), short answer, and long answer with formatting. Move between questions with Previous and Next. There’s no overview screen showing which questions you’ve answered, so keep track as you go — and check back through before you submit.

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Timers

Your teacher may set either or both:
  • An overall timer for the whole assessment. When it runs out, your assessment is submitted automatically.
  • A per-question timer. When it runs out, you move on to the next question automatically.
If you have extended time as an accommodation, both timers are extended automatically — it’s attached to your account, or to your access code if you’re using password-only access.

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Due dates

If your teacher set a due date, it shows on the assessment page and your dashboard badge tracks it. After the due date, you can still submit only if your teacher allows late submissions — and only within their late window. After that the assessment closes; if you were absent, your teacher can open a personal make-up window for you.

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Pausing

Unless your teacher has required the assessment be done in one sitting, there’s a Pause button that saves your progress so you can come back later — from any device, since your attempt is tied to your account.
Your answers are saved when you pause and when you submit — not continuously. If you close the tab without pausing, answers you’ve typed since the last save can be lost. Pause before you walk away.

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Submitting

When you choose Submit, your assessment is final — you can’t go back and change answers, and you can’t retake it unless your teacher opens a make-up for you.
Your results arrive when your teacher sends them. After submitting you’ll see a confirmation screen. Nothing is shown to you until your teacher releases your results — marking and releasing are separate steps, so a quiet gap doesn’t mean you’ve been forgotten.

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Seeing your results

When your teacher sends your results, three things happen at once:
  • You get a notification in ChimeEdu.
  • Your results are ready appears at the top of your dashboard, with a link straight to them.
  • You get an email with your score and any comments.
Your results page shows your total score, the percentage, every question with the points you earned, which answer you chose (and the correct one, for multiple choice), plus any comment your teacher left on an individual answer and their overall feedback. If your teacher gave an overall grade, that appears too — as a letter beside your score, and in your email.

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My Results

My Results (in your account menu) lists everything you’ve handed in, so nothing disappears once it leaves your dashboard. Each one is in one of two states:
  • Results ready — your teacher has sent them. Your score shows, and View results opens the full breakdown.
  • Awaiting results — you’ve handed it in and your teacher hasn’t sent results yet. No score is shown, because there’s nothing released to show.
Done with the dashboard prompt? Dismiss removes it from your dashboard — it doesn’t delete your results, and it doesn’t remove them from My Results. You can always get back to them from there or from the notification.
If some questions are still being marked, you’ll see “Some questions are still being scored” and no percentage. That’s deliberate: a part-marked assessment shouldn’t look like a final grade. Check back after your teacher finishes.
Only you can open your results. The page is tied to your account, so a classmate can’t reach your results by copying the link.

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Frequently asked

Yes — you sign in and your submission is linked to your account. The exception is password-only access, which your teacher sets up for you when your account won’t work (or is still waiting for parental approval).
Your teacher chooses who each assessment is assigned to. If you think you should have it, ask them — they can assign you in a couple of clicks.
The due date (plus any late window) has passed. Ask your teacher — for a legitimate absence they can open a make-up window just for you.
Wait a moment and press Submit again — a retry usually goes through, and it won’t create a duplicate. If it still fails, reopen the assessment: your saved progress will be restored. Then tell your teacher what happened.
Check My Results — if it’s listed as Awaiting results, your submission is safely in and your teacher simply hasn’t sent results yet. Marking and releasing are separate steps, and there’s no way to tell from your side whether marking has started, so if it’s been a while, just ask.
That’s expected. Your dashboard shows only what you can still do, so an assessment leaves it once you hand it in, or once its deadline passes with no make-up open. Anything you handed in is on My Results. If one closed before you could submit and you think that’s wrong, ask your teacher — they can still see it, and they can open a make-up window for you.
No. Dismissing only clears the prompt. Open the notification about your results to get back to the page any time.
If it was the overall timer, your assessment was submitted as it stood. If it was a per-question timer, you were moved to the next question. Let your teacher know — they can see your submission and decide what to do.