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Assessments are ChimeEdu’s tool for formal, recorded work. Unlike a live quiz, an assessment is taken independently by each student, every submission is stored for your review, and each submission is tied to the student’s ChimeEdu account.

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Try it live

Take a finished assessment as a student would — every question type, auto-scored where the platform can. Nothing you submit is saved. Every example is a real activity in read-only mode, no account needed.

Unit 3 Check: Cells and Organelles

Eleven questions across all eight question types, including matching, ordering and a numeric estimate.

All live examples

One example for every activity type and sub-type.

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Question types

Multi-select, Numeric, Matching and Ordering are rolling out gradually. If they aren’t in your question-type list yet, they’re not switched on for your account.
Students never see the answer key: matching and ordering items are shown in a shuffled order, and numeric questions show only the unit. Every question carries its own point value, so an essay can be worth more than a true/false. Written answers are scored by you: open a submission, award points on each written response (up to that question’s value), and the submission total recalculates.

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Building an assessment

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Create it

From your dashboard choose New Assessment, give it a title and description, and choose Grade & score (auto-grades objective questions) or Submission only (collects responses without scoring).
2

Link classrooms

Link the assessment to one or more of your classrooms. Enrollment in a linked classroom is what gives students access — there is no assessment password.
3

Add your questions

Mix the five types freely. Each question can carry images, a point value, and an optional per-question timer.Have the questions in a spreadsheet or a document already? Import questions brings them in from a CSV file, pasted text or another assessment — see Import Questions.
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Set the schedule

Set an optional due date. If you allow late submissions, choose the late window (1–7 days after the due date). Setting a due date also requires you to choose how a missed assessment is scored — 0 or Ungraded — so there’s no silent default. An optional hard close override sets an absolute cutoff regardless of the other settings.
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Set timing

You can set an overall time limit in minutes, which auto-submits when it expires, and/or per-question limits in seconds. You can also require the assessment be completed in one sitting.
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Preview, then publish

Preview runs the whole assessment without creating a submission. Publishing makes it available to assigned students — and notifies them.
Publishing does notify: every assigned student gets an in-app notification and an email when you first publish, when you assign them later, and when you open a make-up window for them.

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Who can take it — enrollment, not passwords

Access is based on classroom enrollment. When a student opens the assessment link:
  • Enrolled and signed in — they see their own name, school email and avatar, and start with one click. Their identity comes from their account; nothing is typed in.
  • Signed in but not in the classroom — one click enrolls them into the classroom and the assessment together. The link you share doubles as the classroom invitation.
  • Signed out — they’re told to check their email for their enrollment link, with a sign-in option for students who already have accounts.
Inviting students by email from your classroom page sends each one a personal link. If the email address doesn’t have a ChimeEdu account yet, the invitation includes a registration code that pre-fills sign-up (student accounts only, valid 7 days) — and you get a copyable link for each new student in case school mail filters eat the email.

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Assigning students

The assessment page shows your roster — every student enrolled in the linked classrooms — with an X of Y assigned count. By default, everyone enrolled is assigned. You can:
  • Assign or unassign students individually or with select-all.
  • Unassign after submission — the submission is kept and marked Unassigned in your table.
  • Open a make-up window for one student after the due date or close — unbounded by default, with an optional end time. A make-up is a re-take: it stays open until that student submits again.
Students see the assessment on their dashboard with a badge: New (first 24 hours), Due today, Overdue (only if you allow late submissions), or Make-up open. “Due today” follows the classroom’s timezone, which you can set in classroom settings (new classrooms inherit yours).
A student’s dashboard shows only what they can still act on. An assessment leaves it once they submit, and once it closes with no make-up open — so students never see a Missed badge sitting on their dashboard. You still see every assessment and every student’s status, including missed ones, on the assessment page. Opening a make-up window puts it back on that student’s dashboard.

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Password-only access — the exam-day fallback

For a student whose account won’t work on exam day — or an under-13 student whose account is still waiting for a parent’s approval — you can enable password-only access in the assessment settings (it’s off by default). Generate a per-student access code from the assessment page: enter the student’s email and name, and optionally grant extended time on the record itself. The student gets an email with a one-click link and a one-time password bound to their email; you also see the password once so you can hand it over in person.
Access codes expire 2 hours after you create them — generate them at exam time, not the night before.
The under-13 route. A student under 13 can’t sign in until a parent approves their account. Password-only access is how they still sit the assessment: no account is created and no student profile exists — their name and email are stored only on the submission, under the consent you attest to holding when you invite and contact students. This is deliberate: it keeps the parental-approval protection intact rather than bypassing it.

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Reviewing submissions and sending results

The assessment page lists submissions with a status of In progress, Submitted, or Graded. Open one to see the student’s answers, award points on written responses, comment on any individual response, and leave overall feedback. Your marking saves as you go. Scores, per-response comments, feedback and the overall grade autosave a moment after you stop typing, with a Saving… / Saved indicator beside the buttons — you don’t have to press a button per response. The buttons still work if you’d rather save explicitly, and if a save ever fails the indicator says so rather than failing quietly.

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Overall grade

Alongside the numeric score you can set an optional Overall Grade — a letter from A+ to F, or No grade. Once every question is scored, ChimeEdu suggests the letter matching the percentage earned and offers a Use suggested button. It is only ever a suggestion: nothing is recorded until you pick one, you can choose any letter regardless of the percentage, and setting it back to No grade clears it.
No suggestion appears while any question is still unscored — a part-marked assessment shouldn’t propose a grade that reads as final.
When you send results, the grade appears prominently on the student’s results page and in their email. Nothing reaches the student until you use Send results — marking and releasing are separate steps, so auto-scoring on submission never reveals anything on its own. When you send results, the student gets an in-app notification, a Your results are ready prompt on their dashboard, and an email. They can then open their own results page showing the total, the percentage, any overall grade you set, each question with the points earned, the answer they gave (and the correct one, for multiple choice), your per-response comments and your overall feedback. The page is tied to their account, so one student can’t reach another’s results by sharing the link. Students also get a My Results page listing everything they’ve handed in. Before you send results an entry shows there as Awaiting results with no score — so a student can always confirm their submission arrived, without learning anything about their marks.
If you haven’t finished marking the written answers, send results anyway when you want to: the student sees “Some questions are still being scored” and no percentage, so a part-marked assessment can’t be mistaken for a final grade. Send again once you’re done.
You can also export the list to CSV, download any submission as a PDF, or download all submissions as a zip of PDFs.

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Accessibility and accommodations

Students with extended time enabled on their roster entry get triple time on per-question timers and the overall timer. For password-only access, set extended time on the access record when you create it — the accommodation no longer depends on the student being signed in.

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Frequently asked

Only when you send it. After submitting, a student sees a confirmation screen and nothing more. Scores, per-response comments, and feedback reach them when you use Send results on their submission — at which point they get a notification, a dashboard prompt, an email, and their own results page.
Students enrolled in a linked classroom who are assigned to it (plus anyone you’ve given a password-only access code). Anonymous access is gone — opening the link signed-out shows a “check your email” screen, not the questions.
Without late submissions, the assessment closes at the due date. With late submissions, it stays open for your chosen window (1–7 days) and those students show as Overdue. After the close, a student who didn’t submit shows as Missed and is scored 0 or left ungraded — whichever you chose. You can still open a per-student make-up window at any point.
No. The five types listed above are the complete set.
Not currently. You can review each submission individually and export the list to CSV, but ChimeEdu doesn’t calculate class-wide per-question statistics.
Yes. Your plan’s limit covers activities and assessments together.