Building a Scored Assessment with Advanced Scoring Mode

A standard PageTiger assessment gives visitors a single pass or fail outcome. Advanced Scoring Mode changes that by scoring each answer individually and using the total score to sort visitors into result bands — so an assessment can reflect a range of outcomes, each pointing to a different next step, rather than just one. This works equally well for a graded test with right and wrong answers or, as in this tutorial, a self-assessment where every answer is Neutral and the score reflects a level rather than a mark.

Adding Your Assessment Module

Start exactly as you would for a basic assessment:

• Open your document in Design mode and navigate to the relevant page.
• Switch to Interactivity mode and select Assessments.
• Choose Assessment/Test and draw the interactivity layer over the panel where you'd like it to sit.

This opens the Assessment content editor, ready for you to build out your questions. See the Assessments overview in the User Guide for more on the module itself.

Choosing Your Question Types

Click Add inside the Assessment content editor to see the available question types. There's a toggle at the top for Manual or AI — for a scored self-assessment where you know exactly what you want to ask, stay on Manual.

Under Manual, you'll find:

• Multiple Choice — a single answer selected from a list.
• True or False
• Image Choice — visual answer options.
• Free Text (Long) and Free Text (Short)

For a scored assessment, Multiple Choice is usually the best fit throughout, since it gives you a consistent format that's easy to score across every question. Build out your first question — enter the question text and add your answer options, ordered from least to most developed — then repeat the process for each remaining question in your set.

Once every question is in place, click Save to close the Assessment content editor. The settings that control scoring live outside the editor, on the module itself.

Turning On Advanced Scoring Mode

With the module still selected, the Settings palette on the right gives you a range of options beyond the basics:

• Tick Advanced Scoring Mode to score every answer individually rather than marking the assessment as a simple pass or fail.
• One Question at a Time and Capture Email Address are switched on by default — leave these unless you have a specific reason to change them.
• Set Max Attempts if you want tighter control over retakes.
• Hide Retry Button is also available if you don't want visitors to be able to retake the assessment.

See the full Assessments: Settings guide for what each option does.

Scoring Your Answers and Setting Result Bands

Assigning scores to answers

Re-open the Assessment content editor and work through each question. For each answer, set an Outcome and a score:

• For a graded quiz or test, mark each answer Correct or Incorrect and score accordingly (for example, 1 point for correct, 0 for incorrect).
• For a self-assessment like the one in this tutorial, there's no single correct answer, so set every answer's Outcome to Neutral instead, then score each one on a scale — for example, from 1 (a developing response) to 4 (an advanced one). Across twelve questions scored this way, the total possible score would range from 12 to 48.

Building your result bands

Select the Results tab to set up your result bands instead of a simple pass or fail. This typically means:

1. Add a first result band (e.g. "Beginner", or "Fail" for a graded test) and enter its score range.
2. Click Add to create further bands (e.g. "Intermediate" and "Advanced", or "Pass" and "Distinction"), each with its own score range.
3. Set the Outcome for each band to match your use case — Neutral for a self-assessment, or Pass/Fail-style outcomes for a graded test.
4. Write a result message for each band that reflects where that person sits, and what to focus on next.
5. Insert a hyperlink to the content that matches that band.

Linking Your Assessment to Its Panel

Once you're happy with your assessment, click Save to close the content editor and return to the page. You can only link your interactivity to its panel once the editor is closed, so do this next:

• Select the interactivity layer on the page.
• Click the Link icon and choose the panel.

This step is worth taking seriously — if you skip it and the panel is later moved or resized, the clickable area stays where it was rather than following the content, so readers can end up clicking the wrong thing, especially on mobile. See the Linking interactivity guide for more detail, and Optimising layout and content for mobile devices if mobile display is a wider concern for your document.

Previewing and Publishing

Preview

Switch to Version Preview and test the assessment from a visitor's perspective. Submit some answers, confirm your result bands display as expected, and check that each training link takes visitors to the right module. This is your last chance to catch anything before your audience sees it.

Publish

Once you're happy with everything, return to the Document Dashboard, click Publish, and confirm. See Publishing & Unpublishing for how version control works once your document is live.

Once your assessment is out in the world, you can track how visitors are scoring in Analytics. If you'd like to reward a particular result band, PageTiger's Badges and Certificates settings let you award one automatically based on a visitor's outcome.

With Advanced Scoring Mode, you can score every answer individually, group visitors into meaningful result bands, and point each one towards the right next step for them.