Assessment Tiles

Learn to create assessments, add interactive practice tiles, set grading options, and track learner progress with analytics.

Assessments in AI course builder help learners practice what they’ve learned, reinforce key concepts, and give instructors a way to measure progress. You can add assessments inside a course as interactive tiles, or you can create a standalone assessment lesson that functions like an exam. Each approach has unique advantages depending on your training goals.

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• Types of Assessment Tiles
• Methods of Creating Assessments
• • Adding Assessments Within a Course
  • Creating Assessments with the AI Assistant
  • Creating a Standalone Assessment
• Grading Settings
• • Course-Level Grading Settings
  • Tile-Level Question Settings
• Accessing Assessment Analytics

Types of Assessment Tiles

AI course builder offers a variety of interactive tiles for checking understanding and gathering feedback. These tiles produce measurable results that appear in your grading analytics:

• Multiple Choice

Learners select one correct answer from a list. Useful for testing recall and checking comprehension of key facts. You can also add images directly to your answer options.

• Select Multiple

Learners select all correct options from a list. This works best for scenarios where several answers could be right, such as identifying all steps in a process.

• Short Answer

Learners type their response into a text field. You can use AI-assisted grading to evaluate answers against key concepts and allow partial credit, or use Text Match grading for exact wording.

• Ranking

Learners arrange items in the correct order. Ranking is ideal for workflows, step-by-step procedures, or prioritization exercises.

• Matching

Learners pair items from two lists. Matching is commonly used for definitions, terminology, or pairing concepts with examples.

• Feedback

Learners provide a 1-to-5 star rating and an optional written response. This tile is ungraded and functions perfectly for end-of-course surveys or gathering learner opinions.

Methods of Creating Assessments

There are three core ways to create assessments within AI course builder. Let's explore these in more detail:

Adding Assessments Within a Course

The first way to build assessments in AI course builder is by embedding them directly into a course. This approach places practice or graded questions alongside the instructional content so learners can check their understanding as they move through the material.

To add an assessment tile to a course:

1. Open your course in the Editor.
2. Add a new page or click the + icon within an existing page.
3. Choose one of the assessment tile types (multiple choice, select multiple, short answer, ranking, matching, or feedback).
4. Write your question and add answer options.
5. Configure feedback, scoring, or retry options in the tile settings as needed.

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Embedded assessments are especially useful for reinforcing concepts as they are introduced. For example, after explaining a new policy, you can include a quick multiple choice or ranking question to help learners process the information immediately.

Creating Assessments with the 🟣AI Assistant

AI course builder's AI Assistant gives you another way to add assessments without building each tile manually. From the bottom toolbar, you can prompt the assistant to generate questions directly inside your course.

For example, you might type:

• “Create a five-question multiple-choice and ranking assessment based on the information on this page.”
• “Add a short assessment to reinforce the concept of workplace safety introduced here.”

The AI Assistant will then generate question tiles in real time, aligned to the content already in your course. You can edit, reorder, or remove any of the generated questions to fit your needs.

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⚡ Tip: This approach is especially useful when you want to quickly reinforce a single page or concept without planning a full exam. It also helps speed up course creation by turning your instructional text into immediate practice opportunities.

Creating a Standalone Assessment

AI course builder also supports assessments that exist as their own courses. A standalone assessment functions as a quiz or exam that can be assigned separately from instructional content. This option works best for compliance checks, certification exams, or end-of-course evaluations.

To create a standalone assessment:

1. From the Dashboard, click the Create button.
2. Select More Options.
3. Click Create Assessment.
4. Enter instructions for the type of assessment you want to build. You can write a simple prompt, and AI course builder will expand it into a detailed request that the AI can use.
5. AI course builder generates a draft assessment with questions and tiles based on your input.
6. Open the draft in the Editor to review, reorder, or refine the questions.

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This workflow allows you to generate full exams in minutes. For example, you can enter “Build a 10-question assessment on workplace cybersecurity basics,” and AI course builder will create a structured assessment that you can immediately edit and deploy.

Grading Settings

AI course builder gives you two layers of control over how assessments are scored and how learners receive feedback: course**-level grading settings** and tile-level question settings.

Course-Level Grading Settings

You can configure overall grading rules in the course settings panel located in the top-right toolbar. These settings apply across the entire lesson or standalone assessment:

• Passing Percentage – Define the minimum score required to pass.
• Question Retries – Decide whether learners can attempt a question again, and how many times.
• Completion Criteria – Choose what must be done for the course to count as complete:
• • Pass the assessment
  • View all course pages and complete the assessment (default)
  • Complete all interactive elements
• Certificates – Automatically issue a certificate of completion when learners pass the assessment.

These controls are ideal when you need to set clear standards for an entire course or exam. For example, you might require learners to pass with an 80% minimum and complete every interactive tile before they finish.

Tile-Level Question Settings

You can also customise how each individual question behaves. To access these options, click on the assessment tile in the Editor and open the Options menu.

General tile-level settings include:

• Graded Toggle (Assessment vs. Form Mode) – Turn off the "Graded" switch to convert a scored question into an ungraded survey or practice question. When grading is off, the tile operates in "Form" mode: the learner can submit any response without it being marked right or wrong, and it does not count toward their score. This is how you make a question optional or skippable — set it to Form mode and it will not block the learner's progress or affect their grade.
• Contributing to Score – Choose whether a graded question counts toward the learner’s overall course grade.
• Final Feedback Mode – Decide how much feedback learners get after answering:
• • Silent — The learner receives no visual indication of whether their answer was correct or incorrect. No checkmark, no feedback text, and no correct answer reveal. The submit button is also hidden after answering.
  • Wrong Only — Incorrect answers show a red X icon and feedback text (if available) while the learner still has retries. Correct answers receive no visual indicator — no green checkmark and no feedback text. The correct answer is never revealed.
  • Full — Learners see a green checkmark for correct answers, a red X for incorrect answers, and a yellow question mark for partially correct answers (short answer tiles). Feedback text is shown when available. After all retries are used, the correct answer is revealed.

Tile-specific settings include:

• Multiple Choice Feedback Mode – Choose between Correct / Incorrect (basic right/wrong feedback) or By Option (custom feedback tailored to the specific answer choice they selected).
• Short Answer Grading Type – Choose AI to have the system evaluate concepts and allow partial credit. Choose Text Match to require an exact or close spelling match.
• • AI Grading: The AI reads the learner's response and evaluates it against the correct answer you've provided, as well as any grading examples. It understands synonyms, paraphrasing, and partial answers. Use this when learners should explain a concept in their own words.
  • Text Match: The system compares the learner's input directly to your accepted answers. It supports close matches (minor typos, case differences). Use this for factual answers with a single correct response, like a specific term or number.
• Short Answer Grading Examples – Add examples of correct, partial, and incorrect responses to help train the AI on how to grade learner inputs accurately. When using AI grading, provide at least 2–3 examples across the correct, partial, and incorrect categories. The more examples you add, the more consistently the AI will grade responses that fall into gray areas.

Tile-level controls are valuable when you want to adjust the learner experience question by question. For instance, you might want one multiple-choice question to give detailed feedback by option, while another question operates silently like a formal exam.

Conditional Logic

Question tiles support conditional page navigation based on whether the learner answers correctly or incorrectly. This allows you to route learners to different pages depending on their performance — for example, sending learners who answer incorrectly to a review page, or skipping ahead for learners who demonstrate mastery.

To set up conditional logic:

1. Click on the question tile in the Editor.
2. Click the Logic button in the tile editor menu.
3. Set the If Correct Go To dropdown to choose which page the learner navigates to when they answer correctly. The default is "Next Page."
4. Set the If Incorrect Go To dropdown to choose the destination for incorrect answers. You can select any page in the course, or choose "Retry Page" to keep the learner on the same page.

Note: Conditional logic only applies when there is a single question tile on the page. This feature requires a Professional or Business+ plan.

⚡ Tip: Use course-level settings to establish the overall rules of the assessment, and tile-level settings to fine-tune the experience on a case-by-case basis. The combination gives you flexibility to design assessments that fit both high-stakes testing and low-stakes practice.

Updated on: 16/07/2026