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# Skills Assessment Mode

Skills Assessment Mode allows instructors to restrict students to seeing and working with only selected activities, ideal for timed examinations or competency assessments.

This page will walk you through

* [Enabling Skills Assessment](#enabling-skills-assessment)
* [Deactivating Skills Assessment](#to-deactivate-skills-assessment-mode)
* [What the student experience is like during skills assessment](#student-experience)

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## Enabling Skills Assessment

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### Go to the Course page

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### Click one of the stopwatch buttons to the right of activities

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### Select one or more activities to enables for Skills Assessment

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### Click through the confirmation Dialog Box

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### Once Active an Activity will have a green background

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## To deactivate Skills Assessment Mode:

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### Reclick the stopwatch button to unselect all activities, or

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### Press the END button to clear all selections

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## Student Experience

When Skills Assessment Mode is active, students will:

* Only be able to access the selected activities
* Experience any time restrictions set by the instructor
* See a modified interface focused on assessment

Refer to the Student Skills Assessment documentation for details on what students will experience.

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