Test Sections
What Is a Test Section?
A Test section administers a built-in personality or strengths assessment to guests. OnArk includes three assessment types: Spiritual Gifts, DISC, and Enneagram. The questions, scoring, and results pages are all fully managed by OnArk — you simply select which test to include.
Guests answer all questions and receive their personalized results immediately. Their result type is saved and visible in the Guest detail view.
Setting Up a Test Section
Selecting the Test Type
1. Open the Test section in the class builder.
2. Click the settings icon (top left of the section) to open the section settings modal.
3. Select the test type: DISC, Enneagram, or Spiritual Gifts.
4. Save.
Once configured, the editor shows a live preview of what the test results page will look like, using randomly generated placeholder data. This lets you see how results will be presented to guests.
Note: There are no other configurable settings for a Test section. The test questions and scoring are fixed and managed by OnArk.
The Three Assessments
Spiritual Gifts
What it measures: A guest's natural spiritual gifts as described in Scripture, such as teaching, encouragement, giving, leadership, or serving.
Number of questions: 72 questions across 12 pages (6 questions per page)
How scoring works: Each question contributes to one or more gift categories. Scores are totaled per gift out of a maximum of 12.
Results: Unlike DISC and Enneagram, Spiritual Gifts returns the top 3 gifts (not just one). This shows the guest their strongest spiritual gifts in ranked order.
Use case: Ideal for membership classes, volunteer placement, or discipleship tracks where you want to help guests discover how they are wired to serve.
DISC
What it measures: A behavioral personality profile describing how a person tends to act and communicate. The four DISC traits are: • D (Dominance) — direct, results-oriented, decisive
• I (Influence) — enthusiastic, optimistic, collaborative
• S (Steadiness) — patient, consistent, supportive
• C (Conscientiousness) — analytical, detail-oriented, systematic
Number of questions: 20 questions across 4 pages (5 questions per page)
How scoring works: Questions are rated on a 5-point scale (Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree). Scores are calculated across all trait pair combinations (e.g., D/I, C/S) and the highest-scoring combination is the result.
Results: Returns the guest's primary DISC type as a trait pair (e.g., "D/I" or "S/C") along with a description of that type.
Use case: Useful in leadership development, team building, or volunteer onboarding to help guests understand their natural working style.
Enneagram
What it measures: A personality framework that identifies 9 core character types based on core motivations and fears.
Number of questions: 45 questions across 9 pages (5 questions per page)
How scoring works: Questions are rated on a 5-point scale. Scores are totaled per type out of 20 maximum. The type with the highest score is the result.
Results: Returns the guest's Enneagram type (Type 1 through Type 9) with a name and description.
Use case: Helpful for spiritual formation, counseling, or self-awareness classes.
Previewing the Test in the Builder
The class builder shows a preview of the assessment results using randomly generated placeholder data. Clicking through the preview form fires a preview event but does not save any data. This preview is for the admin only and does not affect guest data.
Linking Tests to Ministries
If you set up Ministries in your church, you can link specific test result types to ministries. This allows the Ministry (Team Suggestion) form field to suggest relevant ministries to guests based on their test results. See Ministries for details.
Viewing Test Results
Test results are saved per guest per check-in and are visible in: • Admin → Guests → [Guest Name] — shows the test result type for this guest
• Admin → Reports — reports can include test result data as a column
Common Questions
Can I edit the test questions? No. The questions, scoring logic, and result descriptions are managed entirely by OnArk and cannot be customized.
Can I add more than one test to a class? Yes. You can add multiple Test sections to a class, each configured with a different (or the same) test type.
Can I use all three test types in the same class? Yes. You could include a Spiritual Gifts section, a DISC section, and an Enneagram section all in the same class.
How long do assessments take for guests to complete? • Spiritual Gifts: approximately 10–15 minutes (72 questions)
• DISC: approximately 3–5 minutes (20 questions)
• Enneagram: approximately 8–12 minutes (45 questions)
Can guests retake a test? Not within the same check-in. A guest who starts a class again (a new check-in) will take the test again and their new result is recorded as a separate submission.
How do I send assessment results to a guest? Guests can email themselves their results from the results screen when that option is enabled. You can also view their results in Admin → Guests and share or screenshot from there. PDF/print-friendly results for guests are on our roadmap.
Can I see a guest's results as an admin and resend them? Yes. Open Admin → Guests → [Guest Name] for the class. Their assessment results are shown there. To resend, they can return to the course with the same email and use "email my results," or you can contact support for a formal resend.
"See full results" in the results email takes the guest to the start of the test instead of their results. If it's been more than 30 days since they took the assessment, their session may have expired. They can retake the test, or you can view their results in Admin → Guests. If it's within 30 days and still happening, contact support with the guest email and class name.
Can I decrease the number of questions in the Spiritual Gifts test? No. The built-in assessments have a fixed question set that can't be shortened in the app. Contact support to note it as a feature request.
Can I limit how many Spiritual Gifts results are shown (e.g. only top 3)? Spiritual Gifts shows top results with ties included when scores are similar. You can't set an exact number. This is a possible future improvement.
Can guests see which ministry options align with their results without making a selection? They see ministry suggestions as part of a Ministry Team input in a form section — it's shown as options they can select or skip. There isn't a separate "view-only" results page showing ministry fit without any selection.
Do Spiritual Gifts results from one class still populate ministry suggestions in another? Yes. If a guest completed the assessment in one class, that result can be used to suggest ministries in another class when they check in with the same email.
Is there a way to see all assessment questions at once? No. The built-in questions can't be edited, and there's no single screen listing all questions. You can go through the test in Preview to see questions one by one.
Is there a guide for matching Ministry Teams to Enneagram results? Contact support — they can point you to any current guidance for Enneagram-to-ministry matching.
Can OnArk push Enneagram and Spiritual Gifts results to Planning Center profiles? Yes. Set up automations to save assessment results to PCO custom profile fields. See Automations or Church Settings for PCO setup.
Can you license the Spiritual Gifts test for use on our own site? We don't currently license the test standalone. A planned future feature is embedding OnArk classes (including assessments) into your own site — that would come before a standalone licensing option.