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Step by step: take an assessment, or decline it

Both paths, click by click, from the request card to the result or the recorded decline.

Take it

  1. Click Practice, then Assessments.
  2. Under Requested by employers, read the card: purpose and allowed use, competencies, accommodations, privacy, integrity, and Respond by.
  3. Click Review and start.
  4. In Start this assessment?, tick the consent box and click Start now.
  5. Answer each question. Click Next to move on; the line Answers saved confirms each one reached the server.
  6. On the last question click Submit answers. If a question is unanswered, the browser asks whether to submit anyway.
  7. Read your result on the Assessment completed page. The card on Assessments now says Completed with View your result.
The request card
  1. Marker 1: Requested by employers: requests waiting for your answer
  2. Marker 2: Review and start
  3. Marker 3: Decline

Decline it

  1. Click Practice, then Assessments.
  2. On the card, click Decline.
  3. In Decline this request?, write a note to the team if you want.
  4. Click Decline request. The card says You declined with your note; the team sees the same.
Decline this request?
  1. Marker 1: Note to the team, optional
  2. Marker 2: Decline request
  3. Marker 3: Keep the request: close without declining

If something goes wrong

  • You had to stop part way. The card says In progress. Click Continue this assessment; the timer has kept running.
  • Your connection dropped and time ran out. The Time expired page offers Restore N minutes and continue when the drop was recorded.
  • You declined by mistake. Tell the team through Messages. They can send a fresh request.