Taking an assessment

Assessments is where everything you have to take lives — quizzes and tests inside your courses, and anything assigned to you on its own. It’s also where your past results live, so you can look back at what you scored and what your instructor said.

Assessments open full-screen, with the rest of the app out of the way, so nothing distracts you while you’re working.

What this does

The Assessments page has three parts:

Three numbers at the top — your average score, how many are available to take right now, and your pass rate. All worked out from your own results, nobody else’s.
Upcoming assessments — everything available to you, soonest first, each with a date, a due badge, and a Start or Resume button.
Previous results — a table of released results with the date, pass/fail, and your score. Selecting a row replays the whole attempt.

Some organizations set a friendlier version for younger learners, where the three numbers become Stars earned, To play and All done. The list and the buttons work identically.

Before you start

You need to be enrolled in the course an assessment belongs to, or to have been assigned or invited to a standalone one.
Some assessments have a time limit, a limited number of attempts, or both. The screen before you begin tells you which.
If you have an approved accommodation such as extra time, larger text or reduced motion, it’s applied automatically — you don’t have to ask for it each time.

Find your assessments

Open Assessments from the navigation bar. Each row tells you what you need to know before you commit:

The date tile on the left is the date that matters — when it unlocks if it’s locked, otherwise when it’s due. It turns amber when that date is close.
Under the title you’ll see the course it belongs to and, when there’s a cap, “2 of 3 attempts left”.
Locked rows explain the reason rather than just showing a padlock: Unlocks 14 March, “Finish an earlier step to unlock”, or “Score ≥ 70% on an earlier step to unlock”.
Open rows show Start, or Resume if an attempt is already in progress.

Assessments inside a course also appear in that course’s content list. It’s the same assessment either way.

Start an attempt

Selecting Start opens a calm screen before question one. It shows:

The assessment title, and the section title if it has sections.
How many questions there are and how long you have — or No time limit.
Auto-saves as you go and You can come back to questions you skip.
Up to 3 attempts, when there’s a cap.
Extra time, when you have it, as a small chip such as +50% time.
For exams, an honour-code notice: switching tabs will be flagged, pasting from outside is blocked, and you have one attempt.

Select Start to begin. The first time, there’s also Take the quiz tour (30 sec) — a four-step walkthrough of the timer, auto-save, the question map, and flagging. Once you’ve seen it, it stops offering.

Your attempt is created when you select Start, not when you open the page. If you leave and come back, Resume returns you to the same attempt — the clock does not restart, and it doesn’t use another attempt.

While you’re taking it

The runtime shows one question at a time with Previous and Next:

Timer — when there’s a limit, Time left counts down in the header. You’re warned when a minute remains, and when it reaches zero your work is submitted for you automatically.
Auto-save — a small indicator reads Saving…, then Saved · just now. If you lose your connection it changes to Offline — your answers are safe and syncs when you’re back. If the same attempt is open in another tab it tells you that too.
Map — a grid of every question showing which are answered, skipped, flagged, and which you’re on. Select any square to jump there.
Flag — marks a question to come back to; flagged questions are marked in the map. Flags are only for you, and they last for the sitting rather than being stored.
Confidence — some assessments ask “How sure are you?” after an answer, from Just guessing to Sure.
Secure mode — some assessments monitor tab switching and block copy-paste. When it’s on, a banner says so up front.

Questions may be grouped into sections, and the order can be shuffled. If it is, your order is fixed for that attempt — going back and forth never reshuffles it.

Submit

Select Submit (or Review & Submit) when you’re done. A confirmation appears first:

“You answered 18 of 20 questions”, with the unanswered ones listed by number so you can jump back.
Once you submit, you can’t change your answers.
Where scores are released on a set date, it tells you which date.

Choose Keep working to go back, or Submit to finish. Double-tapping submit is safe — it can’t create two submissions.

See your result

After submitting you land on Your result:

Your score as a percentage and as raw points, with a plain-English line putting it in context — whether you’re above or below the median across everyone who took it, and how many people that is. Where there’s nobody to compare against, it says so instead.
A note from your instructor, when there is one — written, or a voice note you can play.
What you got right · what to work on — a breakdown by competency, where the assessment tracks them.

Not everything is visible immediately, and that’s normal. If a person grades it, the result stays pending until it’s graded and released. Your organization can also hold scores or feedback until a set date, in which case you’ll see “Your score will be available on 20 March” rather than a blank. A few assessments never reveal scores to learners at all — your answers are still recorded, and the review says so.

Review a past attempt

From Previous results, select any row to replay that attempt full-screen, one question at a time, the same way you took it:

Your own answer for each question, and a verdict on each — Correct, Incorrect, Partial, Pending or Not graded.
For multiple-choice questions, the correct option highlighted and your wrong pick marked.
Written feedback from whoever graded it, per question and overall. A voice note, if there is one, plays on Your result rather than here.
A final Results step with your overall grade, points and pass/fail.

If scores haven’t been released, the review still shows your answers but reveals neither correctness nor the correct answers.

Attempts and retakes

The limit is set per assessment; when there’s no limit, none is shown. An accommodation can raise your personal limit above it.
An attempt counts once you select Start. Resuming an unfinished one doesn’t count again.
When you’ve used them all, Start replies “Attempt limit reached: this assessment allows 3 attempt(s).”
Where you take an assessment more than once, your best score across attempts is the one kept — that’s the score used when something later needs a minimum score to unlock.

Reference

Term	What it is
Attempt	One run at an assessment, from Start to Submit
Resume	Returning to an unfinished attempt — same attempt, same clock
Question map	The grid of every question, showing answered, skipped and flagged
Flag	Your own marker for a question to revisit
Released	A result your instructor has made visible to you
Secure mode	Delivery that monitors tab switching and blocks pasting
Accommodation	An approved adjustment, such as extra time or larger text

Troubleshooting

“Could not start your attempt” appears as a message. The assessment isn’t open yet, has closed, or you’ve used all your attempts. The message names which. If a window has ended, the screen tells you when it closed and suggests reaching out if you need an extension.

“You’re not quite ready for this yet” means something earlier has to be finished or passed first. The screen lists what’s missing, including the score you need and the score you last got.

I lost my connection mid-attempt. Your answers are held on your device and pushed to the server when you reconnect; a banner tells you when you’re offline and when you’re back. If you do close the tab, Resume picks up the same attempt.

The timer ran out while I was working. Lurno submits automatically at zero and tells you it’s doing so. Everything you’d answered by then is included.

I submitted but there’s no score. Either a person still has to grade it, or your organization holds scores until a release date. Both states say so on the result page — no score does not mean zero.