Create an Assessment

Tutorial for creating an Assessment, selecting a template, and modifying challenges, questions, and settings

Assessments are timed or untimed taken at a candidate's convenience. In an Assessment, candidates solve automatically-graded challenges, projects, multiple choice questions, and provide text and/or video responses to open-ended questions.

On Coderbyte, you can select from 500+ code, spreadsheet, and data science challenges to create and customize Assessments for any role in minutes.

To begin, click Assessments in the navigation bar.

Then click New assessment which will open a modal with two choices.

There are three ways to create a new Assessment. 

1. Create an empty assessment from scratch. Use this option if you are technical and don't need any help creating assessments, selecting challenges, and configuring settings.
2. Select a Role-based template like "Front-end developer." Use this option if you have a defined job description that is based on a general role.
   
   
   For role-based assessment templates, you can select a role, experience level, estimated time to complete the assessment, and primary language for the assessment to be completed in.
3. Select a Skill-based template like "React developer." Use this option if you are specifically hiring for a certain technical proficiency. See our full list of coding languages and technologies here.
   
   For skill-based assessment templates, you can select several coding languages or technologies for the assessment to be completed in.

After you've selected a templated or created an empty Assessment, you can begin to modify or configure the assessment. You can also rename the assessment and add it to workspaces.

1. Email and welcome templates: you can customize the email invitation that candidates receive and the welcome screen they see when joining the Assessment.
2. Time limit: This is an optional cap on how long candidates have to complete your screening Assessment.
3. Scoring: You can set a qualifying score to help you sort and filter candidates who complete your Assessment. You can also decide whether or not you want the time it takes a candidate to complete an assessment part of their grading.
4. Candidate options: You can modify settings to allow candidates to redo their code after submission, see their results upon submission, automatically expire the assessment link, and set a custom landing page to redirect candidates to after they complete an assessment.
5. Candidate reports: You can anonymize candidate reports to mitigate bias within your organization.
6. Cheating prevention: You can enable candidates to search Google for help right from the code editor and can mask the title of the challenge to make it more difficult to find solutions online.
7. Language options: You can modify the languages that any algorithmic code challenges can be completed in. This will not impact language-specific challenges that are part of your assessment.
8. Selection ordering: You can modify the order in which the assessment is presented to candidates. This is particularly relevant if there is a time limit and you want to ensure that candidates prioritize one part of the assessment over another.

On the second tab of editing an Assessment, you can select code, spreadsheet, and data challenges:

1. Challenge library: Use the dropdown to filter Coderbyte's 500+ challenges. Any custom challenges your organization has added will also appear in this list. There are icons for mobile and project-based (multi-file) challenges.
2. Challenge details: You can see stats about a challenge, preview a challenge, or add the challenge to your screening assessment.
3. Selected challenges: This is the list of challenges that are currently in your Assessment. You can preview or remove them.

On the third tab of editing an assessment, you can select multiple choice questions. These will be automatically graded.

1. You can create a custom multiple choice question. 
2. You can add a multiple choice question from Coderbyte's library.
3. You can modify and reorder the selected multiple choice questions in your screening assessment. Always place the correct answer first in the list, even though the list will show up in a randomized order to candidates. Learn more about formatting multiple choice questions.

On the fourth tab of editing an assessment, you can select open-ended questions. These will not be automatically graded.

1. You can create a custom open-ended question.
2. You can add multiple open-ended questions from Coderbyte's library.
3. You can allow video responses to questions and modify and reorder the selected open-ended questions in your screening assessment.

On the fifth tab of editing an assessment, you can select and create Take-Home Projects. Take-Home Projects are used when you want to attach a document, link to a spreadsheet or external page, or have the candidate download something. Candidates then will upload their solutions via a GitHub link or upload their contents directly. These will not be automatically graded.

1. You can manage your library of take-home projects. 
2. You can add a take-home project from your organization's library.
3. You can modify and reorder the selected take-home projects in your Assessment.

You can now save your Assessment! You will be redirected to the assessment details page.

1. You can preview, toggle on/off the assessment, or edit it.
2. You can invite candidates via a private or public link.
3. You can see the quick details of the assessment.
4. You can see how candidates are performing at the assessment.
5. Once candidates are invited, you will see a table of their details and performance in this section.