Once all assessment steps are complete, clicking Publish usually only requires selecting a marking workflow and setting the status to Live.
Select the marking workflow for your assessment
There are three workflows to choose from, depending on the type of questions in your assessment.
1. Scheduler is assessor (Simple workflow)
With this workflow, the person who schedules the assessment automatically becomes the assessor. This workflow does not support moderation or multiple assessors.
Note: Choose carefully. Once you select the Simple Marking Workflow for an assessment, it cannot be changed to the Extended workflow. We do not recommend this workflow for assessments with manually marked questions.
2. Coordinator assigns assessors (Extended workflow)
Recommended for assessments containing manually marked questions such as File response and/or Essay questions. A coordinator sets up the marking workflow by allocating one or more assessors and optionally configuring moderation rounds. Use this workflow when your assessment contains at least one manually marked question.
3. Auto-scored
Select this option only if all questions in the assessment are auto-scored. This means the assessment must not contain any file response or essay questions.
When using blueprints, you can filter item types. By default, all item types are included. If your blueprint includes file response or essay question types (even if none are currently in the question bank), the Auto-scored option will be greyed out.
To resolve this, update the item type filter in the blueprint settings by unchecking File response and Essay. This ensures the blueprint uses only auto-scored questions and makes the auto-scored workflow available.
Extra option: allow manual score adjustment
When enabled, assessors can manually adjust the scores of auto-scored questions. This option is only available if the assessment contains auto-scored questions.
Scoring format
By default, Cirrus allows decimal values when entering scores (for example, 7.5 out of 10). To restrict marking to whole numbers only, enable Disable decimal scoring when publishing. This is useful when assessment policy or institutional guidelines require integer scores. When enabled, decimal inputs are not accepted in the marking workflow.
Status
To complete the assessment, set the status to Live and click Publish.
The assessment is now ready to be scheduled and delivered to candidates.