# What are the test buttons for: Next, Skip, Call, Leave? **In short**: “Next” sends the answer, “Skip” skips the question, “Call my teacher” alerts the teacher and “Leave the test” cancels the test. The “Skip” button only exists if the teacher has turned it on for the session. **Who this is for**: Families and students who want to know what each button does before clicking, and what is final. **What you need first**: - A test in progress: the buttons only exist on a question screen. ## The steps 1. Read the question, then choose or write your answer. 2. Click the green “Next” button to send it. 3. To skip the question, click the orange “Skip” button, if it is there. 4. Click “I skip” to skip, or “I answer” to stay on the question. 5. To alert the teacher, click the blue “Call my teacher” button. ![Test question with the four buttons circled: red Leave the test, blue Call my teacher, orange Skip, green Next](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/familles-eleves/boutons-du-test-quatre-boutons-1440.webp?v=37b8fd88c1) ![Click on Skip, orange box “If you skip, it counts as a wrong answer.” at the bottom of the screen, then back to the question](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/familles-eleves/boutons-du-test-passer.anim.poster.webp?v=4469e8a167) ## The four buttons - **“Next”, green, with an arrow.** It sends the answer and shows the next question. It stays greyed out as long as your child has chosen nothing. An answer that has been sent is final: there is no going back. - **“Skip”, orange, with a triangle followed by a bar.** It skips the question. A skipped question counts as a wrong answer. The button only exists if the teacher has turned it on for the session. - **“Call my teacher”, blue, with a raised hand.** It alerts the teacher, without stopping the test or the timer. - **“Leave the test”, red, with a no-entry sign.** It cancels the test for good. The answers already given are not graded. The red and the blue buttons are at the top of the question, far from the green and the orange ones at the bottom. So a child who wants to answer does not touch them by mistake. Each button has its own colour and its own picture, so that it can be recognised without reading. > **Important**: “Leave the test” does not pause the test: it cancels it, and the answers given so far do not count. Your child can start a new test as long as the opening is still running, but cannot resume this one. A test interrupted without this cancellation can be found again: see [What should I do if the test is interrupted or if my child wants to leave it?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/leave-or-resume-a-test). --- ## Understanding each button ### “Skip”: when it is there, when it is not By default, the button does not exist: the teacher has to turn it on for the session, and otherwise your child answers every question. The teacher can change this setting during the session, and the change applies from the next question, including for students who have already started. In the demo, Lynx Corail, a student in CM2 Lavandes, takes the test without a “Skip” button. Yet the instructions on the welcome screen always describe this button (“The orange “Skip” button skips the question: it counts as a wrong answer.”), and the sample picture next to them shows it too. If your child’s question has no orange button, it is not a fault: the teacher has not turned it on. When your child clicks “Skip”, a box asks them to confirm (“If you skip, it counts as a wrong answer.”). “I skip” skips the question, “I answer” goes back to the question. For a child who cannot read yet, this message is read aloud in the language of the screen, and a headphones button reads it again. If the teacher turns the button off while your child is on a question that still showed it, the skip is refused. The screen shows “The button to skip a question has been turned off for this session. Answer the question to continue.”, and the question stays on the screen. In lightning mode, a question with no answer at the end of the minute is skipped anyway, with or without the button. See [How long does the test last, in lightning mode or in precise mode?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/lightning-or-precise-mode). ### “Call my teacher”: what the call does The button sends a call to the student’s teacher. The call appears in the teacher’s notifications and in the live view of the session, where the student’s line shows that they have called. The call blocks nothing: the question stays on the screen and, in lightning mode, the minute keeps running. While the call is being sent, the button shows “Calling your teacher…”. It then becomes a green badge, “Your teacher has been notified”. Only one call can be waiting at a time: as long as the green badge is there, a second click is not possible. The button comes back as soon as the teacher has acknowledged the call, a few seconds later, or after two minutes at most if they have not. If the green badge does not appear, the call has not gone through: the button simply becomes clickable again, with no message, and your child can try again. The button does the same thing in person and remotely, but it does not serve the same purpose. - **In person**, the teacher is in the room, receives the call in their notifications and can come over. - **Remotely**, nobody is next to the child. The call appears on the teacher’s screen, and the teacher only sees it if they are looking at the platform at that moment. If your child needs help, contact the teacher directly. See [How do I take the test at home?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/take-the-test-at-home). ![After a click on Call my teacher, the button gives way to the green badge Your teacher has been notified](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/familles-eleves/boutons-du-test-appel-envoye-1440.webp?v=67f277023a) ### “Leave the test”: the confirmation and what follows A click on “Leave the test” opens a browser window, which shows the name of the site: “Do you really want to cancel this test? This is final: your answers will not be graded and this test will not count. You will be able to start a new one.”. If your child declines, nothing changes. If they confirm, the test’s welcome screen comes back with the message “Your test was cancelled. It will not be graded. You can start a new one whenever you want.”. Cancelling does not use up the attempt: a cancelled test never has a result or an end date, and the “once only” opening can still be used. A new test then starts at the first question, as long as the opening is still running. See [When can my child take the test?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/when-to-take-the-test) and [What should I do if the test is interrupted or if my child wants to leave it?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/leave-or-resume-a-test). The button can no longer be reached when the test is paused: the pause screen replaces the question, and only the teacher can then cancel the test. In that case your child reads “Your test was cancelled by your teacher. It will not be graded. You can start a new one.”. ### Why “Next” stays greyed out The green button only responds once an answer is chosen. If nothing happens when you click, check that an answer really is selected or written. While the answer is being sent, the button is greyed out too, until the next question arrives. ## Related articles - [What does my child see during the test?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/what-does-my-child-see-during-the-test): Your child first reads a welcome screen, then answers one question at a time, with four buttons, a skill and a current level. The questions always stay in French, whatever the language of the screen. - [How does the test work for a child who cannot read yet?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/no-reading-test): When the school marks a child as a “Non-reader”, they take a form of the test in which every question can be done without reading. The results say so, and reading comprehension is not assessed. - [Why is my child’s test paused?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/test-paused): In class, a student who leaves the test page sees the “Your test is paused.” screen appear, and only their teacher can restart the test. The same question then comes back, with the time that was left and all the answers already given. - [What should I do if the test is interrupted or if my child wants to leave it?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/leave-or-resume-a-test): An interrupted test can be found again with “Start test”, then “Start the test”: the waiting question comes back and the answers given are kept. A test left for 24 hours with no activity is closed as cancelled, with no result. --- Written by the TestFLE team. Updated 12 November 2026. https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/test-buttons