Create a Common Assessment as an Administrator

Common Assessments are collaboratively designed by a team of teachers, and administered to all students in a grade level and course, periodically across the school year.

As a Quizizz Administrator, you can create a Common Assessment on Quizizz and distribute it to a team of teachers to administer in their classrooms. The reports generated from a Common Assessment enable you to monitor student progress across your school district and empower you to make necessary adjustments, helping teachers and students meet the required learning standards.

This article will discuss how you can create, share, and monitor a Common Assessment and access reports.

To learn more, take a look at Common Assessments: An Overview.

Common Assessments are available as an add-on with the Quizizz Schools & Districts Plan. To access this feature, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or Sales Representative, or email sales@quizizz.com.

Creating an Assessment/Quiz

To assign a Common Assessment on Quizizz, you first need to start with an Assessment/Quiz.

Create or Select an Assessment/Quiz: Start by creating a new Assessment/Quiz, or select an existing assessment from your Library, or search from the Quizizz Library. If your teachers are creating the assessment, you can ask them to share it with you.

• Standards-Aligned Reporting: If you want a standards-aligned Common Assessment Report, click on the tag icon () next to each question to tag it to a specific standard. If you do not tag by standards, the Common Assessment Report will only compare student performance by questions.

Assigning a Common Assessment from an existing Assessment on Quizizz

Only Quizizz admins have the capability to create Common Assessments. If a teacher wants to create a Common Assessment, they have two options:

1. Create and Share: The teacher can create the assessment and share it with a Quizizz admin, who will then assign it as a Common Assessment.

2. Update Teacher to Admin: An existing Quizizz admin can update the relevant teacher to an admin by going to Manage Members from the side navigation.

To create a Common Assessment from an existing Assessment on Quizizz:

1. Navigate to an Assessment/Quiz page, and click on the 'Create Common Assessment' button at the bottom-left of the page.
   
   
   
   
   Note: To enable the 'Create Common Assessment' option, make sure that the questions are created with only Assessment Question Types like Multiple-Choice, Fill-in-the-Blank, Reorder, Match, Drag-and -rop, Drop-Down, Math Response, Labeling, Hotspot, Graphing, Categorize, and Reading Comprehension.
2. Configure the settings from the panel on the right side:
   1. Give your Common Assessment a title
   2. Enable or disable Standards-Aligned Reporting
      
      Note: If all the questions in the Assessment/Quiz have been tagged to specific standards, Standards-Aligned Reporting will be enabled automatically. You can disable this setting to fall back to Question-Aligned Reporting.
      If all questions in the Assessment/Quiz are not tagged, you will be prompted to tag all of them to enable Standards-Aligned Reporting.
   3. Tag the subjects and grade levels that the Common Assessment targets
3. Share with your team by choosing an existing team of teachers who will administer the assessment in their classes, or opt to create a new team
4. Set the start time and end time of the assessment. This could be a window of a few hours or even a few days
5. Set assessment duration (a time limit for students to complete the assessment) to ensure consistency in timing for all participants
6. If you want to allow teachers in the team to view the content of the Common Assessment before the start time, enable 'Allow teachers to view the quiz'
7. If you want to allow teachers to view the reports of the Common Assessment, enable 'Allow teachers to view the class reports'

• After configuring the settings, click on 'Create and share', followed by 'Got it' to confirm and share the assessment with your team
  
  

Additional notes

Team management: You can add or remove teachers from a Common Assessment by managing team members in the selected team through the 'Teams' section under 'My Library'.

Assessment/Quiz editing permissions: To allow the author of the Assessment/Quiz to make further edits, you can assign them as co-editors by clicking on the 'Share' button on the Common Assessments > View Quiz page.

Editing Assessments: Adjustments to the Common Assessments content and settings are possible anytime before the designated start time. Changes made after the start time will not affect the ongoing assessment. You can only change the end time of the CA between the start time and the end time.

Monitoring the progress and status of a Common Assessment

• For easy access and monitoring, the Common Assessment will appear on the 'Common Assessments' tab on the left navigation pane
  
  
  
• When a Common Assessment is in the Scheduled stage (between creation time and start time):
  • As an administrator, you can edit the Assessment/Quiz content and assessment settings
  • You can share edit access with other authors to enable them to make further edits to the content
  • Teachers can view the assigned assessment but cannot start the assessment yet

• When a Common Assessment is in the Live Now stage (between start time and end time):

  • Teachers can start the assessment
  • Admins can track the assessment progress from your Explore page and Assessments section
    
    • You can track the number of teachers who have hosted the assessment in their classes. Multiple assignments by the same teacher will not get counted again
    • You can find Common Assessment Reports starting a day after a Common Assessment has started. Reports refresh once every day, and all the report details will be available to you in a downloadable spreadsheet
• When a Common Assessment is in the Ended stage (after the end time)
  
  • Teachers can no longer administer the assessment to their classrooms

Accessing Common Assessment reports

You can find reports starting a day after a Common Assessment has started. Reports refresh once every day, and all the report details will be available to you in a downloadable spreadsheet. Follow these steps to locate and access a Common Assessment report:

1. Click on 'Common Assessments' from the left navigation pane. You will find all your Common Assessments here.

2. Once it has been a day after a Common Assessment has started, click on the active 'Export Report' button to download and view the report in a spreadsheet format.

On the report, you can view student accuracy by standards or questions and compare by school, teacher, and class.

Learn more:

• Common Assessments: An Overview
• Create and Host a Common Assessment as a Teacher
• Participate in a Common Assessment as a Student