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# Manage Students on a Live Common Assessment

> Common Assessment Managr Students on a Live Assessment

The Live Class Board (LCB) is critical to a teacher’s success as it allows them to see data quickly and easily while the test is being taken. They can track students' progress on a test. This article explains each status, bulk actions before the LCB, how to manage the individual classes or students, and how to handle different scenarios and statuses.

## Common Assessment Manage Students on a Live Assessment

The Live Class Board (LCB) is critical to a teacher’s success as it allows them to see data quickly and easily while the test is being taken. They can track students' progress on a test. This article explains each status, bulk actions before the LCB, how to manage the individual classes or students, and how to handle different scenarios and statuses.

## Status Terms and Definitions

Assessments have four statuses:

* Not Started: The student has not clicked on the assessment because they don’t have access to it yet
* In Progress: Students who have accessed the assessment but have not yet submitted it
* Submitted: There is a manually graded question
* Graded: Students who have all questions graded. A student can be marked as graded without answering a question as long as they have accessed the test at least once and the testing window is closed

Within student cards, you might see three additional statuses:

* Absent: Students who did not access the assessment before the window closed. Students can also be manually marked as absent
* Paused: When the teacher or admin has paused the assessment intentionally to take access away temporarily
* Redirected: A student has been given another attempt on the test

## Bulk Management Actions

As an admin, understanding how to bulk manage an assessment is a huge time-saver. You can find these actions after clicking on an assessment and then clicking the box of at least one class.

* **Open**: Opens selected assessments that are not open
* **Pause**: Temporarily removes a class' access to an assessment. Pausing is a great idea for keeping students off of a test. This can also be done in the LCB for individual students
* **Close**: Closes the testing window for the classes selected when the test is set to be closed manually. Closing a testing window before the automatic date might occur if there are a few students who are not expected to take the test. For best results, unassigning those students would provide better data as closing the test marks them as absent (0% in your reports)
* **Mark as Done**: Only necessary if you selected to Manually Mark as Done

Once you click the **More** option, a few important data pieces come into play:

* Security for Common Assessments: How & When to Release Scores and Feedback: Show students their scores or hide them in bulk. You can also use this to adjust students' level of visibility for a test. For example, show students only an overall score before their retake and then the correct answers and their answer choices after the retake.
* **Download Grades**: Download the overall and per-question scoring for all the classes/students
* **Download Responses**: Download response-level data, like multiple choice, for each student and question
* Admins Unassign Several Tests at Once: Bulk Unassign: When you unassign, either in bulk or at the classes/student level, only do it when there is no data as this will delete it. This bulk action will allow you to remove accidental assigning to classes or, to classes that were not able to take the test. It will make sure that the class-level data and student-level data won’t show this assessment on the reports

## Manage Classes and Students Individually

The following are the options that can impact a class:

* **Open**: Open a class manually
* **Pause/Resume**: Pausing the assessment is a great option for taking away temporary access for the end of class, emergency drills, etc. Once you pause, the **Resume** button will appear. Click that when you are ready to give access to students. Read more to see how to pause individual students
* **Close**: Close the test before the window or for a Close Manually class. Only use this if all the students expected to turn in the assessment are submitted. Otherwise pause the assessment
* Blank: If nothing is showing up, the assessment is closed and only a redirect to a student or students can reopen the assessment

Clicking the three dots at the top right brings up additional options. You can adjust the release score settings for just this class or unassign the assessment. Please note that unassigning should only be used if there is no valid student data as this will delete the data.

The bottom portion of the screen is where all the individual student actions occur. You can either select all students using the box at the top left or select the box on each student’s card. On the right side, you have **Redirect** and **More**. The following is the breakdown of the management options.

* Quick Start Redo Reassign Reopen Use **Redirect**: Reopens the assessment for any non-Progress status. Absent student? Redirect. Poor test-take? Redirect. Skipped questions? Redirect. Check out the article to learn more about the redirect options, including sending back only skipped questions
* **Mark as Submitted**: Close the test for an individual student either to submit their answers or manually input their answers/scores
* Restrict Access to Absent Students: Reduces Cheating Opportunities: Remove a student's access to an assessment before they attempt to complete it. In most cases, it will be better to pause the student as you can just quickly unpause to give access back. Marking as absent can be redirected to give access but this will result in the student card showing Attempt 1 as Absent and now Attempt 2
* **Add Students**: Add students to the test who were not assigned it originally. The students who are already on the test will be grayed out to make it clear which students are not assigned the test
* **Unassign Students**: Uassigning should only be used if there is no valid student data as this will delete the data. This is a great option for students who will not be taking the test whether they were accidentally assigned, no longer enrolled, or you aren’t giving retakes. A student who does not access the test and is not unassigned will show up in the reports with a 0%
* **Pause/Resume Students**: Pausing students is a great way to temporarily restrict access from a specific student. You can pause their test if they have to leave early, go to the bathroom, get called to the office, etc. Once the student is ready to start the test again, just click **Resume**

## Manage Student Statuses

With the many statuses you might find on student cards, it is important to understand what to do based on specific scenarios.

The image above is from our Live Class Board. Teachers and admin can use this to manage individual classes and students.

From the top left, the overall status of the assessment shows the class' progress and access. For example, if it says Not Open, none of the students have had access to the test yet. If it is In Grading, the test needs to be marked as done or to look for a student who has not been graded yet.

The individual statuses explain student access. Let’s take a look at these different statuses.

Graded: This student is considered graded because they have submitted the test and all questions have been scored. From here, you can use **Redirect** (retakes), manually score, or provide feedback.

Graded: This student is also graded. If the student will not be making up the test, unassign the student to erase the non-attempt from your reports. If the student is making up the test, you can redirect the student for the retake.

Absent: Absent students are similar to graded (skipped questions). You have two options here: Admins Unassign Several Tests at Once: Bulk Unassign or use **Redirect**. If the student will not be making up the test, unassign the student to erase the non-attempt from your reports. If the student is making up the test, you can redirect the student for the retake.

In Progress: This student is taking the test now or has started but has not submitted it. There is nothing to do here except monitor the student to make sure they are working at an appropriate pace.

Redirected: This student wants either automatically or manually given a redirect. A redirect is reopening the assessment for absent students, poor test-takes, or skipped questions. Each redirect counts as a new attempt.

Paused: A student can be paused individually or with the entire class. You need to determine if the class status is paused or if it is just select students. From there, you can unpause as explained earlier in this article.

Submitted: This student needs to be manually graded. The progress bar represents manually graded questions. Click the bar on the student card or in the bar graph to get taken directly to that question for grading.

## Resources

* Common Assessment: Importance of Status Tracking in Pear Assessment