How to link a summative assessment to an assessable course

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to link a summative assessment to a course within an academic structure. It outlines the necessary permissions, the process of accessing the course settings, and how to toggle the assessable status of a course. Additionally, it explains how to select and save linked assessments.

If you have not set up your summative assessment yet, you can learn how to do this here.

Permissions

You'll need the School: Academic Structure: Administer permission to make amendments to school structure, such as editing courses and adding linked assessments. If you don't have permission, you'll need to ask your admin team to give you permission using these instructions.

Through the Annual Policy (Recommended)

Go to Students > Assessments > Annual Policy > Manage Assessments. Click on the assessment you want to link to a course. 

Scroll down to Students, and click the +Add button

In the slide-over, select the classes you want to link to the assessment (this will ensure they're on the class marksheet, as well as the overall course marksheet) and click Add Students.

Then, scroll down to Linked Courses and click the +Add button

In the slide-over, select the courses from the dropdown and click Add Courses.

Through the Course

Head to School > Programmes > Courses and click into the relevant course (the top-level course).

Scroll to the bottom of the course overview to find the Assessment Characteristics section. It should look like this:

Click on Assessable course to bring up a slide-over where you can tick Assessable course, if it isn't ticked already, and then add any Linked Assessments. Click Save Changes to confirm.

When a course is marked as assessable, all course modules are automatically made assessable as well - this means it is only necessary to mark top-level courses as assessable. So the ability to toggle this can be useful for when ad-hoc assessments are issued on a per-course basis.

The list of available assessments in this drop-down is dependent on the assessments that have been set up for the academic year.

To unset the course and mark the course as no longer assessable, untick the box.

You can head to Students > Assessments > Annual Policy > Assessable Courses to see a full list of your assessable courses.