Excluding a participant from report averages

Sometimes a participant's runs shouldn't count toward your results — your own test run while building the simulation, an instructor or staff account, or someone who opened the activity but never really attempted it. Cesura lets you exclude a participant so their runs drop out of every average and chart, while their row stays visible (clearly flagged) in case you change your mind.

What excluding does

When you exclude a participant, their runs no longer count toward:

• the headline stats — Average Score, Median Time, completion rate, and so on;
• the score and criteria distributions and charts;
• the Grade Book averages and the group outlier flags;
• the Feedback tab aggregates;
• the AI analysis on the Advanced tab, where your account has it — the member’s runs are left out of its cohort, its insights, and its written report;
• the summary sheet in your Excel export.

The participant is not deleted. Their row stays on the Participants and Grade Book tabs — greyed out with an “Excluded” badge — and their individual report and transcript are still available. You can re-include them at any time.

💡 Exclusion is per activity. Excluding someone from one simulation's results doesn't affect any other activity, space, or report.

Exclude a participant

1. Open the activity's results page and go to the Participants or Grade Book tab. (New to the results page? See Where to see your participants' results.)
2. Find the person's row and open its actions menu — the ⋮ icon at the end of the row.
3. Choose Exclude from averages. The averages and charts update immediately, and the row is greyed out with an “Excluded” badge.

Hide excluded participants

By default, excluded participants stay visible (greyed) so you can see who has been removed. To hide them completely, turn off the Show excluded toggle above the table — the list and the participant count update to match.

Re-include a participant

Open the same ⋮ actions menu on the participant's row and choose Re-include. Their runs immediately count toward every average and chart again. (If they're currently hidden, turn Show excluded back on first.)

When to use this

• Your own test runs — practising or checking the simulation before sharing it.
• Instructor or staff accounts that took part but shouldn't skew the group average.
• Abandoned or accidental attempts that aren't a real result.

Excluding these keeps your averages, distributions, and exports focused on the participants you actually want to measure. To put names to “anonymous” results before deciding who to exclude, see Identifying and tracking individual participants.