Send and review assignments

What it is

Sending an assignment mints a candidate their own unique link and messages it to them; they sign in, answer the questions once, and you read their answers back on their candidate profile. One candidate or many at once follow the same flow.

Send an assignment

Open Send assignment from a candidate's Assignments tab, or select several candidates on the Responses table and choose Send assignment from the ··· bulk-actions menu (see Bulk actions on candidates). In the dialog:

• Choose assignment form - pick which of the form's assignments to send.
• Message - a rich-text email, pre-filled from the form's Assignment reply template, with an {assignment_link} placeholder that's replaced with each candidate's own link, and {first_name} for personalization (see Message candidates and Reply templates). If you remove the {assignment_link} placeholder, Binary appends an assignment-link line to the message automatically, so a candidate is never sent a message they can't act on.
• Exclude candidates who already received this assignment - shown whenever some of your selection has already been sent this exact assignment; leave it checked to skip them, or uncheck to resend. Candidates without an email, or who already submitted this assignment, are always skipped and don't count toward this checkbox.

Click Send to record the send and message everyone eligible in one step. If sending fails for some candidates, you'll see who and why, with a Try again that retries only the ones still outstanding - candidates who were already recorded and messaged successfully are not re-sent.

What the candidate sees

The candidate opens their link, signs in, and sees the assignment's name, description, and questions in the same layout as filling out a form. They can save partial answers and come back, but can only submit once - after that the page shows a confirmation and the questions are replaced with a "thank you" message. There's no candidate-facing cancel or expiration; a link stays open until it's submitted.

Review submitted assignments

Open a candidate's profile and go to their Assignments tab (alongside Overview, Messages, and Interviews - see The candidate detail view). Each assignment they've been sent appears as a card:

• Awaiting submission (amber) - sent but not yet answered.
• Submitted (green) - shows the submission date and time, with every answer shown right on the card - there's no separate "view answers" click, though a large file or video attachment may sit behind its own preview button depending on where you're viewing from.

From here you can Send assignment (if the form has assignments) or Create assignment (if it doesn't yet). The Responses table also shows an Assignments column once a form has any - reading, for example, "2 of 3 submitted" - so you can see submission status without opening each candidate.

Notes & limits

• Sending an assignment counts against the workspace's normal monthly email quota, the same quota shared by every bulk message - it isn't a separate assignments limit.
• Anyone with access to the form can send and review its assignments.
• There's no per-candidate way to cancel or expire an assignment once it's sent.