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title: Managing Students on an Assessment
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## Managing Students on an Assessment

The **Students** tab on any assessment shows you everyone enrolled in that exam, lets you enroll students manually, and gives you a detailed look at each student's attempt history and grades.

## The student list

Open an assessment and select **Students** from the tab bar to see who's enrolled. Each row shows the student's name and email, their **Enrollment Type** (such as **Purchased**, for students who paid for access), and the date they enrolled.

Use **Search Students** to find someone quickly in a large list.

## Enrolling students manually

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/exam-students-enroll.png)

Click **Enroll Student** to add someone directly, without requiring them to purchase or self-enroll. This is especially useful for free assessments where you want to grant access yourself rather than waiting for a student to find and enroll in it on their own.

You can either search for an existing student using **Find students to enroll by name or email**, or click **Create new student** if they don't have an account yet. A note on this screen clarifies that manually enrolled students skip the purchase or self-enrollment step entirely.

## Reviewing a student's attempts

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/exam-student-grades.png)

Click a student's row to expand their attempt history in place. This shows the **Started on** date, their **Score**, a pass/fail badge (**Not passed** or **Passed**), and **Completed in**, the total time the attempt took. Click **View** next to a specific attempt to open the full, detailed breakdown.

## The detailed attempt view

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/exam-student-exam.png)

Opening a specific attempt shows you exactly what that student saw and answered. At the top, you'll see the assessment name, the overall score percentage, how many questions they got right out of the total, and timing details: **Started on**, **Finished on**, and **Took** (the total duration).

Below that, every question appears with the answer choices the student was shown. A green **Correct answer** label marks the right choice, and a checkmark or X next to an option shows what the student actually selected, a checkmark for correct selections, an X for incorrect ones. This lets you see not just whether a student passed, but exactly where they went right or wrong question by question.

Use **Print** if you need a physical or PDF copy of this breakdown, or **Close** to return to the student list.

## Actions on enrolled students

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/exam-students-actions.png)

Each student row includes two action icons on the right. The crosshair icon opens **View Grades**, taking you straight to that student's attempt history without needing to click the row itself first. The circular icon is **Deactivate**, which removes a student's active access without deleting their enrollment record or attempt history.

## Tips

Manually enrolling students is the right approach for cohorts, internal teams, or any group you want to grant access to without making them go through a checkout or self-enrollment flow, especially common for free internal assessments.

If a student scores 0% or fails unexpectedly, opening their detailed attempt view is the fastest way to diagnose what happened, whether they genuinely struggled with the material, ran out of time, or perhaps didn't realize the assessment had been assigned to them at all.

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