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The Assessment view of a unit is how students are graded against the outcomes at the end of it. MESO generates the instrument from the unit’s context: the outcomes you selected, the assessment method chosen at creation, and the rubric if you have built one.

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Generating one

Open a unit and go to its Assessment view. What you get reflects the method attached to the unit — a project-based method produces something different from a text assessment, which is why that choice at creation matters.

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Reviewing it

Read it as a draft from a colleague who knows the specification but not your class. Two things are worth checking every time:
  1. Does it measure the outcomes you actually taught? Compare against the curriculum mapping on the unit’s Overview.
  2. Are the questions correct? Dates, quotations, formulae and worked answers need verifying — see the warning below.
Check every worked answer before an assessment goes to students. Model answers and marking schemes are exactly the kind of content an AI system states with complete confidence and gets wrong. This is the highest-stakes place in MESO to take something on trust.

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Assessments outside a unit

Assessment is also one of the eight resource types, so you can generate one standalone. Inside a unit it inherits the outcomes and the rubric; standalone it does not, and you will get something more generic.

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Editing

Assessments open in MESO Canvas, so you can rewrite anything — questions, marks, instructions — and your edits persist.