The fitness assessment is a graded assignment. You take it twice, once near the start of your term and once near the end, so that the two can be set side by side and you can see what a term of training actually did.
Where it lives
Open Fitness Assessment in the sidebar. It holds two entries:
- Enter Results is the form you fill in.
- View Results is where your pre-test and post-test are compared.
The two windows
Your instructor sets a date range for the pre-test and another for the post-test. The form only opens inside one of those ranges. Outside them the page tells you the assessment form is closed and shows you the dates, so there is nothing to fix and nothing to report.
Check your Syllabus for those dates at the start of term. The windows are usually about a week each, and leaving it to the final evening is the single most common way students miss the marks.
Before you open the form
The form records numbers; it does not time anything for you. Have ready:
- a stopwatch or your phone timer
- a partner to count repetitions, which is far more accurate than counting for yourself
- a tape measure or sit and reach box if your course uses the flexibility test
- a measured route if your course uses a timed walk or run
Warm up properly and treat it as a real test. The numbers you record here are the baseline the whole term is measured against.
Filling it in
Personal information comes first. Your age is filled in for you from the date of birth on your profile and cannot be typed over; if it is wrong, correct your profile and the form follows. You choose your height and your weight, and eFit works out your body mass index from them.
The tests come next. Which ones you see depends on what your instructor selected for your course, so your form may hold push-ups, crunches, a plank hold, a sit and reach, a timed walk or run, or some combination. Every field is a dropdown, so there is nothing to format.
Enter honest numbers. A pre-test you inflate makes your post-test look like a decline, which is the opposite of what the assignment is for.
Save your receipt
The entry form says this at the top and it is worth repeating. After you submit, the receipt page offers you a PDF. Save it or print it. It is your record of exactly what you entered and when, and it is what settles any later question about your submission.
Reading your results
View Results gives each measure its own card: your pre-test figure, your post-test figure, the percentage between them, and a chart. Improvements show as a positive change, and for body weight and body mass index a decrease shows as a negative number, which for most people is the direction they were aiming for.
Until you have taken the post-test the second column has nothing in it, so the change reads as meaningless for most of the term. That is expected and it fills in as soon as your post-test is submitted.
If something is wrong
- The form says it is closed and you think it should be open. Check your syllabus dates first. Your instructor owns the windows and can adjust them.
- You entered a number wrongly. Tell your instructor. They can correct an entry; support cannot change your assessment data.
- Your results screen is empty after you submitted. Make sure the course selected at the top of your sidebar is the one you took the assessment for. Results are held per course, so a different course shows a different, possibly empty, set.
- Your age is wrong. Fix the date of birth on your profile, then reload the form.