Make skills progress easier to see
Give people a clearer way to practise, compare attempts and build confidence at their own pace.
The challenge
A colleague gets a typing score, but nobody has explained whether it measures improvement, readiness or simply one nervous attempt.
What good looks like
Clear purpose, repeatable practice and visible progress turn a test result into useful development.
View how to
Find your assessments
Open the Assessments tab, either directly or from My Workspace. You can view completed assessments, optional development tools and practice tools.
Take a typing test
In the Typing section, select Start Typing Test. Choose Easy, Medium or Hard and the English version you want to use. Select Preview Passage to review the text, then start the 30-second test. After it finishes, open the result to see your performance and how your band compares with others.
Review progress or assign tests
Select My Progress to compare your current assessment with your previous attempt. More information will appear as you complete more tests. User admins can assign assessments from Hiring and Development through the Assessment Bank, or create their own test there.
Read and search transcript
Improving your digital skills and confidence across different platforms is really important. Here, you can see a breakdown of your scores, helping you understand how you're progressing.
Select the Assessments tab, which is also available from the My Workspace menu. Here, you can view completed assessments, optional development tools, and practice tools to help build your skills.
For example, in the Typing section, select Start Typing Test, then choose Easy, Medium, or Hard, along with the English version you'd like to use. Select Preview Passage to look over the text you'll be asked to type, then choose Start 30-Second Test.
The test will count down before your practice begins. When it finishes, you'll see another countdown and an indication of how you performed.
Select this area to see how your band compares with others, and keep practicing to work towards your target. You can take additional practice tests whenever you like, so keep building your skills at your own pace.
Select the My Progress tab at any time to review your progress, including your current assessment and how it compares with your previous attempt. The more you complete, the more information you'll see here.
If you're a user admin, you can also assign assessments and tests from the Hiring and Development page, through the Assessment Bank, or by creating your own test here. In Zizzy, everything is straightforward and designed to help you and your team keep learning, improving, and build confidence.
A score is not the same as progress
A typing result looks precise, which makes it tempting to treat it as a verdict. Yet one attempt can reflect unfamiliar wording, nerves or a difficulty level that was poorly chosen. The number may be accurate for that attempt without answering the question that matters: is this person becoming more capable and confident?
This distinction matters because digital skills assessments can serve very different purposes. They might reveal a development need, give someone a safe way to practise or show whether repeated effort is paying off. Trouble starts when those purposes blur. An employee thinks they are practising while a manager treats the result as judgement. Or several scores are collected, but nobody can tell whether they were produced under comparable conditions.
Make the purpose clear before the test
A calmer approach starts by saying what the assessment is for. If it is practice, make that explicit and allow repeated attempts. If there is a target, explain why it is relevant to the work rather than presenting an arbitrary benchmark. Choose a consistent level and language version where comparison matters, and avoid reading too much into a single result.
Progress should be compared with a person’s previous attempt as well as any wider band. The first shows development; the second provides context. Neither explains everything. A lower score can prompt a useful conversation about what changed, while a higher one may show that practice is working. The point is not to remove judgement, but to make it fairer and better informed.
Put practice and progress in one place
This is where Zizzy becomes useful. Its assessments area brings completed assessments, optional development tools and practice tools together. In the typing test, people can choose a difficulty level and English version, preview the passage, complete a 30-second test and see how they performed. They can practise again at their own pace rather than waiting for someone to organise another exercise.
My Progress shows the current assessment beside the previous attempt, with more information appearing as more tests are completed. People can also see how their band compares with others. User admins can assign assessments from Hiring and Development through the Assessment Bank, or create their own tests there.
That setup keeps the evidence close to the development activity. The employee can see movement, the person supporting them has a clearer basis for discussion, and another attempt is readily available. A typing score still needs context, but it no longer has to sit alone in an email or spreadsheet pretending to tell the whole story.
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