Accessing your results
If your instructor has alerted you that your exam results have been released, begin by logging into the ExamSoft Portal. 

1. Upon logging in, you will be brought to the "My courses" page. This page will display all courses you're currently enrolled in. Select the course from this list.
2. Next, the page will populate with all assessments you've taken in the course. Beside each assessment, you will see the date, score, and results. Click the "view your results" hyperlink.

3. Your individual strengths & opportunities report will roll-out from the right. 
   • Student overview
     • When expanded, the 'student overview' tab will show your score, statistics, as well as the average score for this assessment.

• Category performance
  • When expanded, the 'category performance' will show your performance per category and any sub-categories. Each category will be separated by the different category types, clearly labeled in bold before listing the category performance(s). To view your performance of any subcategory, click the "# subcategories" hyperlink to expand that information.

• To collapse the list of sub-categories, click the link once again.

• The green diamond icon represents the student score for the specific category or subcategory.
   
• The orange diamond icon represents the class average score for the specific category or subcategory.
   
• The blue rectangle represents the score range of all students per category or subcategory.
   
• The red triangle represents a score that is below the at-risk threshold percentage. By default, any score lower than 60% is marked as need(s) improvement / are at risk.
   
• The gold cirlce represents a score that is below the needs review threshold percentage. By default, any score lower than 70% but greater than or equal to 60% is marked as needs review.
   
• The green triangle represents a score is greater than or equal to 70%.

• Questions
  • When expanded, the questions section will show all questions that your Professor chose to release. This may include ALL questions on the exam or just the incorrect questions.

• Multiple choice questions
  • For multiple choice, 1 answer questions, the questions and answer choices may appear as such: The question number as it appeared on the exam, question text, answer choices, green highlighted text and green check mark indicating you chose the correct answer choice. If you did not answer the question correctly, the answer choice will be highlighted in red and a red No symbol next to the chosen answer choice. To the right, you will see the number of points rewarded / total points available, and the number of categories tagged to the question. Clicking this number will open a pop-out window listing the category type as well as all associated sub-categories.

• Fill in the blank questions
  • For fill in the blank question types, the questions and answers will appear as such: The full question text and blanks (each numbered appropriately), the answer you provided, green highlighted text and a green check mark indicating you entered an accepted response, red highlighted text and a red no symbol indicating you entered the unaccepted response, as well the points rewarded / total points available, and the number of categories tagged to the question.

• If you entered an unaccepted answer, the accepted answer(s) will be listed to the right of their response. If there are multiple accepted responses, you will see the accepted responses listed next to your unaccepted response.

• True / false questions
  • For true/false question types, the questions and answers will appear as such: The question number as it appeared on the exam, full question text, true/false answer choices, green highlighted text and green check mark indicating you selected the correct answer choice, red highlighted text and red no symbol indicating you selected the incorrect answer choice, as well the points rewarded / total points available, and the number of categories tagged to the question.

• Essay questions
  • For essay question types, the questions and answers will appear as such: The question number as it appeared on the exam, full question text, and the full answer response. You will also see the points rewarded / total points available, and the number of categories tagged to the question. Notes left by your grader may also be visible if your instructor has chosen to release them.

• Multiple choice questions with multiple correct answers
  • For multiple choice, multiple correct answer question types, the questions and answers will appear as such: The question number as it appeared on the exam, full question text, all answer choices, green highlighted text and green check mark indicating you selected the correct answer choice, red highlighted text and red no symbol indicating you selected the incorrect answer choice, as well the points rewarded / total points available, and the number of categories tagged to the question.

• Hot spot questions
  • For hot spot question types, the questions and answers will appear as such. The question number as it appeared on the exam, full question text, hot spot image, the number of points awarded / total number of points possible for each hot spot, as well as the number of categories tagged to the question.