Supervise a run live

While a candidate takes their assessment, you can follow their progress scenario by scenario, watch their terminal without being able to type in it, add or remove time, and pause or stop a scenario.

Prerequisites: be a Recruiter or an admin in the organization, and have a candidate who has started their assessment from their invitation.

Open a candidate’s run

1. Open Assess, then Assessments.

2. Under All assessments, find the candidate. The counters at the top show the total number of runs, the Active ones (in progress) and the Completed ones.

3. Click the View assessment icon at the end of the row.

The run page updates by itself while the Live badge is shown. If the badge says Disconnected, reload the page.

Card	Content
Information	Candidate Name, Candidate Email, Assessment, Started.
Time Remaining	The assessment’s global countdown, then Final Score once the run is over.
Sessions	One scenario per row: Scenario, Status, Started, Duration, Score.

Until the assessment is over, the Score column shows an information icon (“Score will be revealed after the assessment is complete.”).

Note

Before the candidate enters their first scenario, the Time Remaining card reads “Timer starts once the candidate begins”. The timer covers all scenarios at once.

Watch the candidate’s terminal

1. On the run page, under Sessions, click the scenario’s View session icon.

2. In the Infrastructure Deployment Status card, the Live CloudShell Terminal area shows the candidate’s terminal, marked Observing.

3. If the lab has several machines, switch between them with the terminal tabs.

This terminal is a read-only mirror: you see what the candidate types and what their commands print, but your keystrokes never reach them. The candidate stays in control.

The terminal is not shown while the scenario is paused, stopping or finished. The area then becomes Isolated User Space Shell, with a badge showing the state.

The Session Diagnostics card gives the Created at and Started at dates, the elapsed Duration and, once the assessment is over, the scenario’s Final Points.

Add or remove time

Useful when the candidate lost time for a reason outside their control.

1. On the run page, find the Time Remaining card.

2. In the field under the countdown (Adjust time (minutes)), enter a number of minutes. The default is 5.

3. Click + (Add N min) or − (Remove N min).

The “Added N min to the assessment” or “Removed N min from the assessment” message confirms the change, and the countdown updates. The total duration never drops below 1 minute. The control disappears once the assessment is over.

Caution

Removing time can make the assessment run out immediately if the remaining time reaches zero.

Pause or resume a scenario

On a scenario’s supervision panel:

• Pause suspends the scenario’s environment. The “Session paused successfully” message confirms it;
• Resume brings it back. The “Session resumed successfully” message confirms it.

Caution

The assessment countdown is global and keeps running. If you pause a scenario on the candidate’s behalf, add the matching time back.

Stop a scenario

1. On the scenario’s supervision panel, click Complete.

2. In the Complete Session? window, click Yes, Complete Session.

Danger

The scenario’s environment is destroyed permanently and the candidate loses access to it. Anything the candidate has not yet had validated on that scenario can no longer be.

After stopping, you return to the run page.

Run and scenario states

Badge	Meaning
Created	The run has just been created.
Pending auth	The run is waiting for your authorization (invitation set to Manual approval).
Creating, Provisioning	The candidate’s environment is being prepared.
Ready	The environment is ready; the candidate can enter.
Active	The candidate is working.
Paused	The scenario is paused.
Completed	The run went to its end.
Timed out	The allotted time ran out.
Terminated	The scenario was stopped before the end.
Failed	The environment could not be prepared.
Rejected	The run was rejected.

See also

• Webcam and proctoring
• Read a candidate report
• The lab in assessment mode