You can create many task types through the CodeSignal UI. If you'd like to create a different type of task that you don't see here (e.g. user interface, DevOps, mobile, etc.), contact your Customer Success Manager with your idea and our team will assess feasibility.
Jump to a task type:
- Single-Function Algorithmic Task
- Quiz Task
- Free-Coding Task
- Free-Text Task
- Frontend Task
- Filesystem Task
- SQL Task
- Task Notes
Task creation steps
1. Go to your profile menu on the upper right side of the screen and choose TASKS. You will be taken to your task library.
2. Click + Create Task.
3. You will be taken to a page where you can choose the type of task you want to create. Select a task type and click CREATE or NEXT (will vary depending on task type).
I. Create a Single-Function Algorithmic Task
1. In the SETTINGS tab, add a title and a description for your task.
2. Go to TIMEOUT tab and edit the execution time limit for all languages as needed. 
3. Click on Input/Output to add descriptions of what the input(s) will be and what the output should be as well as set the input parameters for randomly generating.
4. Choose how many tests to make visible. Here you have 2 options:
- Show the first half of your test, or
- Manually set the amount of the first visible tests
5. On the lower right side of the screen, under Tests, click on ADD TEST to add at least one test case with which to evaluate the submitted code.
6. Add the Author solution and run it to make sure all tests are passing.
7. Click on RANDOM TEST to automatically generate test cases.
8. On the upper right side of the screen, under Code, the system generates a starter code snippet that contains the desired function name and the name of the input(s).
9. Once you’re done creating the task, you can click PREVIEW to view your task in advance of public presentation. Then click Save. Your task will now be available to use.
II. Create a Quiz Task
1. Enter a task name, description, and a number of answer choices for candidates to select from.
2. Write an answer description for each answer choice and toggle "Correct answer" on for the answer that is correct.
3. Click the "Multiple Choice" text box if you would like to allow more than one correct answer choice.
4. Click the “Don’t shuffle answers” text box if you don't want the answers to be randomly shuffled.
5. Once you’re done creating the task, you can click PREVIEW to view your task in advance of public presentation. Then, click Save. Your task will now be available to use.
III. Create a Free-Coding Task
1. In the SETTINGS tab, enter a task title, description, and starter code.
2. Go to TIMEOUT tab and edit the execution time limit for all languages as needed.
3. Once you’re done creating the task, click SAVE. Your task will now be available to use.
IV. Create a Free-Text Task
1. Enter a task title and description.
2. Once you’re done creating the task, you can click PREVIEW to view your task in advance of public presentation. Then click Save. Your task will now be available to use.
V. Create a Frontend Task
1. After selecting Frontend from the task type selection modal, you will be prompted to toggle on or off Automated Tests. This is toggled off by default. When toggled on, you can manually add test files to your tasks that will be scored.
After you've made your selection, click CREATE.
2. In the SETTINGS tab, enter a task title and description. You can also add labels from this tab (optional).
3. Go to the LANGUAGES & CODE tab to configure languages for this task. Learn more about configuring languages in this article:
Note: You will not see files to be added on the screen as you make edits in the free-frontend task. For example, if you write the code in a jsx file and then write some code in css and html files, you will not see all 3 files until you click SAVE.
4. (Optional) If you've toggled on Automated Tests for your frontend task, you will see an additional tab called TESTS (to the right of LANGUAGES & CODE). Here, you can add and write your own Puppeteer test files for your task. This allows your frontend task to have automated scoring.
Be sure to click SAVE to the right of each test file name.
5. Once you’re done creating the task, click Save. Your task will now be available to use.
VI. Create a Filesystem Task
1. Select the Environment. If you toggle on Automated Tests, you can add unit tests that will be automatically run and scored by CodeSignal each time a candidate completes the task. The unit tests can be hidden from the candidate, or exposed to serve as guidelines. If you don’t see the environment that you would like to use, fill out this form to indicate that you would like it to be supported. 
2. In the SETTINGS tab, enter a task title and description. 
3. In the TIMEOUT tab, enter an execution timeout for the task. 
4. To edit the files for the task, click on the Filesystem icon on the left-hand menu bar. Add files or folders using the buttons at the top of the screen. When you select a file, use the buttons that appear across from the filename to remove, hide, rename, or make the file read-only. 
5. (Optional) Add unit tests. If you include Automated Tests, CodeSignal preloads sample file(s) with unit tests. Follow the existing file structure to add more unit tests of your own. If you use this task in a Test, each unit test pass/fail will count with equal weight towards the overall score for this task. These files are read-only by default. Learn more about how to write unit tests in this article:
6. Once you’re done creating the task, click SAVE. Your task will now be available to use.
VII. Create a SQL Task
1. Select the environment.
2. In the SETTINGS tab, enter the task title and description.
3. (Optional) Edit the default starter code that will be provided to the candidate.
4. If you want to run tests for this task, configure these in the TESTS pane, following the steps below. 
- Include a setup script that will be used to initialize the database before running each test case. Note that both the setup and teardown scripts must be compatible with the environment that you chose (e.g. MySQL).
- Include a teardown script that will be used to reset the environment after running each test case.
- Add any tables that should be visible to the candidate (i.e. the tables they will need to access to write their solution).
- (Optional) Add your Author Solution for the task. This can be used to automatically generate the correct outputs for your test case inputs.
- Add test cases.
- When you add a test case, it will create two files in the IDE, e.g. "Test Case 1 - Input" and "Test Case 1 - Output," where you provide the inputs and outputs for the test.
- You can add as many test cases as you want.
- You can either fill in the output file manually, or click on "Auto-generate output from author solution." You can auto-generate for one test case or multiple test cases, using the checkboxes to the right of the list of test cases.
5. Once you’re done creating the task, click SAVE. Your task will now be available to use.
VIII. Creating Task Notes
Note: To create or edit a task note, you must have an admin or manager role or a custom role with this permission.
1. Once you create your task, click on the three lines icon on the left side of the IDE to edit the task notes.
2. Click SAVE button to save your task notes.
Questions? Email customer_success@codesignal.com