# How do I cancel or end a student’s test in progress?

**In short**: Cancelling a student’s test in progress produces no result and keeps their attempt; ending it with at least fifteen answers publishes the test and uses up the attempt, but the global level may be missing. “Cancel test” is in the live view, on the home page and in the student’s menu; “End the test”, in the live view and on the session page.

**Who this is for**: Teachers with a student who cannot or must not finish their test.

**What you need first**:
- A student whose test is in progress, including a blocked test.
- For “End the test”: the right to open tests, granted by your school’s administrator.

## Cancel or end: which one to choose?

- **Cancel** when the test must not count at all. The answers given are not graded, no level is computed, and the student’s attempt is not used up: they can start a new test.
- **End** when what the student has answered should count. With at least fifteen answers, the test is published, with its results by skill, and the attempt is used up. The global level, however, may be missing: it only appears if the student has answered enough questions in enough skills. Below fifteen answers, the test is classed as “Not computable” and gives no level.

Neither action can be undone. So read the confirmation window again before you click.

## The steps to cancel the test

1. Open “Live” in the sidebar.
2. On the student’s row, in the “Actions” column, click “Cancel test”. The button is offered for a student who is “Taking the test”, “Blocked” or “Called for help”.
3. Read the window: “Cancel this student’s test in progress? This is irreversible: the work already done will not be graded and this test will not count anywhere. The student will be able to start a new test.”
4. Click “Cancel test” to confirm. The “Cancel” button closes the window without changing anything.

Three other routes lead to the same action.

- **The “To handle now” block**, on the right of the “Live” page, has a “Cancel test” button on each incident.
- **The “Live test incidents” block** on “Home” has the same button on each row. The window first recalls the incident, and so the student’s name, then asks the same question.
- **The student’s menu.** In “My students”, click the three dots on their row, then, in the “Test in progress” section, click “Cancel the running test”. The window is titled “Cancel the running test?”. It says, for example: “Phoque Indigo’s test will be cancelled and will never produce a result. This cannot be undone. Test access is not used up: the student can start another one.” The confirmation button is “Cancel the test”.

![Cancel the running test confirmation window, opened from a student’s menu](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/professeurs/annuler-ou-terminer-le-test-d-un-eleve-annuler-1440.webp?v=e669bf28d3)

## The steps to end the test

During the session, “End the test” is on the “Live” page. It is also on the session page, which you open from the notification announcing its start, for example “The CE1 Bleuets session has started.”, with its “Open the session” link. After the session ends, you open this page with “View the session report”.

1. During the session, click “Live” in the sidebar. After it ends, open the class menu in “My classes” with the three dots on its row, then click “View the session report”.
2. On the student’s row, in the “Actions” column, click “End the test”. The action is offered for a student who is “Taking the test”, “Blocked” or “Called for help”, in a class session; never for a one-time attempt.
3. Read the window. With at least fifteen answers, it says, for example: “End Phoque Indigo’s test? Their results will be computed from the 22 answers already given, and the test will count as taken. The global level may be missing if too few skills received enough questions. The test cannot be resumed afterwards.”
4. Click “End the test” to confirm.

The class menu only offers “View the session report” for seven days after the session ends, and not if another session is already scheduled for the class. The “Calendar” offers it without this seven-day limit: display the week of the session, click the session, then “View the session report”.

Below fifteen answers, the window becomes a warning. It says, for example: “Warning: Castor Turquoise has given only 9 answers. At least 15 are needed to publish a result. Their test will be classed as "not computable", and they will be able to take it again in another session.” The confirmation button is then called “End anyway”. If the test must not count at all, click “Cancel” to close the window, then cancel the test: TestFLE does not do it for you, except for a forgotten test. An open test, not blocked and with no activity for twenty-four hours, is cancelled automatically.

The action is still offered after the session ends, for a student whose test has stayed open, as long as that test has not been cancelled automatically. A test that is not blocked and has had no activity for twenty-four hours is cancelled at the first reading, for example when the report is opened: the student goes back to “Not started”, the test moves to “Cancelled tests” on their sheet, and its answers will never give a result.

![Session page with the Actions column and the warning window before End anyway](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/professeurs/annuler-ou-terminer-le-test-d-un-eleve-terminer-1440.webp?v=a33e7f067c)

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## Understanding cancelling and ending a test

### What happens after a cancellation

The cancelled test is kept, but it will never produce a result: it counts in none of the student’s results. On their sheet, it only appears under “Cancelled tests”, with its date and the “Cancelled” badge. The student reads on their screen: “Your test was cancelled by your teacher. It will not be graded. You can start a new one.”

They can indeed start again as long as their test access is open. A cancelled test does not use up the one-time attempt, whether it comes from the session or from an individual opening. If the access has been closed in the meantime, for example because the session is over, you can open a new attempt for them: [opening the test to a single student](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/open-the-test-to-a-single-student) explains how.

### What happens after “End the test”

The answers already given are graded as for a test finished normally, and the test is published with its results by skill. In the live view, the student’s row switches to “Done”. The global level only appears if the student has answered enough questions in enough skills. Otherwise, their sheet shows “Global level not computable”, the “Level” column of the live view shows a dash, and the student keeps the level they had before this test. On their sheet, a test you ended also carries a note reserved for staff: “Test ended by the teacher after … answers: the level is computed from the answers already given.” The family, for their part, reads the published results, without this note.

A test ended with at least fifteen answers counts as taken, with or without a global level: the student’s attempt is used up. For them to take the test again, you need to open a new attempt for them.

### What the fifteen-answer rule counts

The threshold of fifteen applies to graded answers. A question skipped with the “Skip” button counts among them, as a wrong answer. The number given in the window is that of the page’s last update: if the student answers again before your click, their results are computed from all their answers, including the most recent.

### A test ended below fifteen answers

The test is classed as “Not computable” and does not use up the attempt: the student can take it again in another session. They keep the level they had before this test. The session report gives the reason under “Not computable”. It says, for example: “Test ended by the teacher after 9 answers (minimum 15)”. [Reading a session report](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/read-a-session-report) shows where to find it.

### What “End the test” is for, depending on the mode

In lightning mode, a student who has not finished at the session’s end time continues their test, which cannot exceed thirty-five minutes. “End the test” is for closing a test that has stayed open or that will not resume. In precise mode, TestFLE itself ends the tests still open at the session’s end time, with the same fifteen-answer rule: the action is therefore mostly useful before that time. In both modes, a test that has stayed open, is not blocked and has had no activity for twenty-four hours is cancelled automatically: end it before then if its answers must count.

> **Important**: Cancelling and ending are final. The cancellation window says so (“This is irreversible”), and so does the one for ending (“The test cannot be resumed afterwards”). There is no button to reopen a cancelled or ended test.

### If the action is refused

- The action failed: “Could not cancel this test. Please try again.” on the home page, and “Unable to cancel this test. Please try again.” in the student’s menu. In the live view and on the session page, the message is “The action did not go through.”, followed by the reason.
- The test is already finished, by the student or by another action: “The test is already finished.”
- You are trying to end a test that is already cancelled: “The attempt was cancelled; it cannot be resumed and produces no result.” Conversely, cancelling a test that is already cancelled changes nothing.

Then reload the page: the student’s row shows the real state of their test.

## Related articles

- [What should I do if a student is blocked during the test?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/what-to-do-if-a-student-is-blocked): In person, a student who leaves the test page has their test blocked, and only the teacher can unblock it. Click “Unsuspend” in the incidents on the home page, in the live view or in the student’s menu; without the right to open tests, only the home page offers it.
- [How do I follow students live while they take the test?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/follow-a-session-live): The “What is happening now” page shows where each student in a class session or a one-time attempt stands, and the incidents to handle. You open it from the “Live” entry in the sidebar, visible thirty minutes before the session starts and thirty minutes after it ends.
- [How do I read a class session report?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/read-a-session-report): A class session report shows, for each student, whether they are done with their level, absent, not started or “Not computable”. Open it with “View the session report”, in the class menu or in the “Calendar”.
- [How do I open the test to a single student?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/open-the-test-to-a-single-student): From the three dots on a student’s row in “My students”, choose “Open a one-time attempt…” or “Open unlimited…”, then the start, the end, the mode and the setting. For a student who takes the test at home, choose “Remote”: the window offers “In person” by default.

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Written by the TestFLE team. Updated 13 November 2026.
https://www.testfle.com/en/help/teachers/cancel-or-end-a-students-test