When authors create quizzes, they have a range of settings to choose.

Decide if the quiz is assessed or non-assessed.

If assessed, you’ll need to choose how many attempts the learner can have. If non-assessed, the learner can reset and reattempt the quiz as many times as they like.
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Decide if the quiz has a time limit. If you leave this field as blank the learner will be able to take as long as they like to submit the quiz

When you set a time limit for a quiz the default behaviour is that if the learner leaves the page, the quiz timer will automatically be paused and start up again when they reload the page. This can be useful for non-assessed quizzes because it lets the learner practice completing the quiz within the timeframe.

Decide if you'd like the quiz (applicable for both assessed and non-assessed) to have a pass percentage (set at quiz level not per task).
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If you choose to have a pass percentage learners and facilitators will be able to see if the learner met the pass threshold. They will see a tick if the threshold was met or exceed and a cross if this was not met.

At the bottom of a quiz, authors also have some additional Quiz settings to choose from.

If you want the time limit to be absolute, select Enforce strict time limit for quiz. This will change the timer behaviour so that if the learner leaves the page and comes back, the timer will continue counting down in their absence. If there is still time left, the learner can continue to complete the quiz. If there is no time left, the learner will be able to submit their completed work but will not be able to answer any more questions.

If you’ve given your quiz a time limit it can sometimes be helpful to display a one minute warning before the quiz time is up. You know your learners and if this would benefit them, so we’ve left it as an optional setting for you to configure. If this is enabled, the countdown timer changes to a red background when one minute remains.

You can let learners pause the quiz. This can be helpful if you want to set an expectation of how long a quiz should take (say an hour) but also want to give learners time to go and research the answer or complete a task away from their device. This option is disabled if you have chosen to enforce the quiz time limit.

You can choose whether the questions should always be presented in the same order or if you’d like them shuffled. This can be helpful if you don’t want learners to discuss the answers to ‘Question 5’ for example.

This shows learners which questions they got correct, and which ones they got incorrect.

You setting only shows learners the correct answers to the questions they got correct after each attempt. Questions that they got wrong will have the answers hidden so they can use future attempts (if available) to get these questions correct. Feedback attached to each question will also show if this setting is selected.

Selecting this option will show learners the correct answers for all questions in the quiz once they've used all their attempts.

This setting is only available for assessed quizzes with a set number of attempts. It is not available for:

For more on marking and scoring of quizzes in general, see An overview of scoring and marking with quizzes.

Check out our answers to a range of frequently asked questions about quizzes for more help or ask us in-app!