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Quiz: Override

Updated over 7 months ago

Purpose

This article explains how the quiz override feature lets you open or reopen a quiz for a specific student without affecting the original dates and settings.

Example

You can reopen a quiz for a student who missed a deadline without having to open it for the whole class. You can set up a quiz override for a student who requires an accommodation of additional time.

Procedure

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Basic Settings

Click on the quiz title on your course page.

Click the More dropdown menu and choose Overrides.

'More' dropdown menu open with 'Overrides' selected

Click the Add user override button.

Add user override button

Click on the small down arrow in the Search box and choose the student you want to grant the override settings.

'Override user' dropdown open displaying student names

When you’ve selected the student, the name should appear above the search box.

Student name displayed above 'Override user' dropdown

Update settings such as date ranges, time limit, and the number of attempts allowed. You can require the student to enter a password, but you can opt to leave that blank if you wish.

Click the Save button to finish.

Choose, Save and enter another override if you want to create an override for additional students. That’s it; you’re done!

Override options with Time limit highlighted and arrow pointing to save button.

Notify the student to explain what their new responsibilities are for this assignment.


Allow Student to “Build on last attempt”

This allows you to retrieve a student's partially completed quiz or exam, so they can continue without losing answered questions. It can be used if a student was not able to complete a quiz because of a lost internet connection or other circumstances.

This will allow you to retrieve previously answered questions for the student.

Additional User Override Setting

Return to your quiz settings menu.

Quiz page with the Settings tab highlighted

Attempts allowed must be changed to 2 (or more). This won’t work if you leave it at 1.

Grade settings with Attempts allowed highlighted and showing 2

Under Grade, set Grading Method to Highest grade.

Grade settings with Grading method highlighted and showing Highest grade

Click Show more… under Question Behavior to open up additional options.

Question behavior settings show more option highlighted

! Change Each attempt builds on the last to “Yes.”

This is important. It will retrieve the results of previously answered questions, so that the student can continue from there.

Question behavior settings with 'Each attempt builds on the last' highlighted and 'Yes' selected.

Click Save and return to course at the bottom of the page.

That’s it - you’re done! Notify the student to explain what their new responsibilities are for this assignment.

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