How do I copy assessments?

Copying assessments can save precious time if you frequently give assessments that are identically structured and receive similar results, day after day or week after week.

But it may be quicker and easier to simply make a new assessment, especially in Gradebook, unless the assessment has:

• a complex structure (lots of questions, varying point values or tags, different standards, etc.) or
• a particular setup or 
• almost always has the same student scores

If your assessment matches one of these three criteria, it's a good candidate for being copied.

Start by navigating to the assessment that you want to serve as a template and clicking the "Copy" button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. (You can get to assessments easily via the Quick Search.)

 

This creates an exact copy of the original assessment. The only difference is the title, which you can edit to reflect the new assessment you want to save. For example, change "Week 4 HW (Copy)" to "Week 5 HW".

 

Remember that when you copy an assessment, all student scores are also copied over!

If you frequently give assessments that students score consistently on, you can simply click into the "Input" tab and update any scores or responses that are different from the original assessment.

If you don't want to use the same students, X out the students and whatever selection is in the "Sections" menu before saving your copy for the first time.

Note that copying assessments is only possible within a single school since this feature brings over all the students that are on the assessment. If you're interested in copying an assessment template across schools in your network, you can do this with an assessment's definition.  Learn more here.