The assessment library is the catalogue you assign from. It contains every assessment template available to your workspace — both the global templates that ship with Jadiroon and any custom templates your workspace has authored.
Where to find it
/{slug}/app/develop/library. Search and the type tabs sit in a pinned toolbar at the top of the grid; see Search and filtering below.
What is in the library
For every workspace, the library starts with a seeded set of global templates:
- Cognitive — Cognitive Core template, 25-minute timer; 50 items drawn per attempt from a bank of 51 via stratified sampling.
- Technical — there are no global technical templates. Technical assessments are created in the library first, then assigned to people. Each technical assessment covers a single competency and is a single format — either MCQ or Case Study.
- Legacy types — behavioural core, structured interview rubrics, and simulation scenarios still ship and run, and are reachable from the Legacy filter chip in the library. New custom templates can only be Cognitive or Technical.
You can also see custom templates your workspace has authored — flagged with a small Custom tag in the library card.
What a template card shows
The card is deliberately narrow: it carries only what you need to decide whether to assign this template, and nothing else.
- The template name, with the assessment type shown as a coloured icon.
- The category, the item count, and a validation caveat (Experimental or Beta translation) where one applies.
- The competencies the template assesses — up to three, with a +N chip for the rest.
- A Custom badge, but only on templates your workspace authored. Global templates are the norm and carry no badge.
Clicking View (or Edit for custom templates) opens the template detail view. For templates backed by a catalog instrument it opens with an Overview panel — a full description plus the runner (engine), item count, and dimension count — followed by the items, scenarios, or rubric questions you can read before assigning.
Search and filtering
The library toolbar stays pinned while the grid scrolls beneath it, so the filters stay reachable however long your library gets.
- Search — matches template names, category, and the names of the competencies a template assesses. Filtering is instant; there is no page reload.
- Type (the tabs) — All, Technical, General. Each tab carries a count.
- Category — the instrument's topic (Leadership, Communication, Cognitive, Foundation literacy, …). Multi-select; each option shows how many templates carry it.
- Length — Short (≤ 8 items), Medium (9–15), Long (16+). Multi-select.
- Source — Global (ships with Jadiroon) or Custom (authored by your workspace). Multi-select.
Clear resets every filter at once. The result count beside the filters always reflects what the grid is showing.
Creating a custom assessment
HR Admins can create custom assessments from /{slug}/app/develop/library → + Create custom assessment.
The wizard has three steps:
- Pick a type — Cognitive or Technical. These are the two types you can create. Legacy assessments (behavioural, simulation, structured interview) still exist in the library — toggle the Legacy filter to see them — but new custom templates are scoped to cognitive and technical.
- Pick a source — Duplicate an existing assessment or AI-generate a fresh bank.
- Configure — described below.
Creating a technical assessment
A technical assessment covers exactly one competency and is exactly one format — either MCQ or Case Study. You cannot mix formats inside a single technical assessment.
The creation flow for a technical assessment (AI-generate path):
- Pick the competency — choose one competency from your taxonomy. Competencies appear in a searchable box, grouped by job family, showing only the job families and competencies that belong to your workspace. Each group is collapsed by default — click a family header to expand it, or type in the search box to filter (matching families expand automatically) instead of hunting through a long flat list.
- Pick a level range — select a contiguous range from L1 to L4 (for example, L2–L3). The AI generates items appropriate for those levels.
- Pick a format — tick MCQ or Case Study (or both). Ticking both saves two separate assessments — one MCQ and one Case Study — each covering the same competency and level range.
- Review before saving — the platform generates items and opens a review screen. You can read each item, edit any wording, and regenerate individual items or the entire bank. Nothing is saved to the library until you confirm.
This means every technical assessment in your library is a focused, single-format instrument ready to assign.
Duplicating an existing assessment
Choose any cognitive or technical template (global or custom) and re-link it to a different competency. The items are copied verbatim, but every item's competency stamp is updated so scoring attributes correctness to the new competency you pick. You can also rename the template and override the items-per-attempt count.
This is the right path when an existing template's questions are still relevant but you want them attributed to a different competency — for example, cloning a "Java fundamentals" technical assessment and re-linking it to "Backend engineering" for a team where the items still apply.
AI-generating a general assessment from a competency
Pick any competency from your taxonomy. The platform generates a pool of assessment items targeted at that competency using AI, then lets you review them before publishing. Generated items are labelled "AI-drafted with automated quality review" so reviewers know their provenance.
If your workspace has no custom assessments yet, an Auto-populate library shortcut appears on the Develop dashboard. One click runs the AI-generate flow across your top competencies and seeds an initial custom library — useful for a quick start.
Custom templates are workspace-private. They do not appear in other workspaces' libraries.
Versioning
Templates are versioned. Editing a published template creates a new version; existing assessments using the previous version retain their original content. This means a template you assigned six months ago can still be re-read in the form it was originally taken — useful for audit and for year-over-year comparison.
The version is shown in small mono type at the top of the preview view.
Archiving a template
A template you no longer want to assign can be archived from its preview view. Archived templates are hidden from the library by default; existing assessments using them are not affected. You can restore an archived template at any time.
Community catalog and custom plugins
Beyond the seeded global templates, the library draws on a catalog of ready-made instruments — Grit, Big Five (BFI-10 and Mini-IPIP-20), Customer Service SJT, Work Preference — that are installed onto workspace competencies. The descriptive metadata for each instrument (description, runner, item and dimension counts) is surfaced on the template's Overview panel, along with its provenance (Community / Proprietary). Library cards themselves show only the validation caveat (Experimental / Beta translation) — provenance lives on the detail page, since it rarely changes which template you would pick.
See the dedicated Assessment plugins page for the full plugin architecture, install flow, and manifest schema.
Next
The next page covers the assignment flow — picking a person, picking a saved assessment from the library, and what the assignee receives.