Designer's Guide: Setting Quiz Properties

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After you have entered the questions into the Question Library, you are ready to set up quiz.  On the main QUIZ screen, select New Quiz.

Setting up Quiz Restrictions

Restrictions are set on the next tab at the top of theNew Quiz screen.
  • Click on the RESTRICTIONS tab.
  • In the Availability section, you can set the status and when the quiz starts and ends.  Users can only see quizzes when the quiz status is set to ACTIVE.
  • Choose a start date using the drop-down menus or by clicking on the calendar icon .  If you wish your quiz to have no specific date, choose no start date.
  • Choose an end date using the drop-down menus or by clicking on the calendar icon .  If you wish your quiz to have no specific date, choose no end date.
  • Set a time limit for your quiz by typing the numbers in the time limit field.  By default, the time limit is 120 minutes.
  • Choose to enforce the time limit or show a clock by selecting the corresponding boxes.
  • Type a grace period in the text field.  This determines how many minutes the students have to submit their quizzes before being flagged as late.
  • If you wish to disallow submissions if they are late by a certain number of minutes, choose the amount from the Late-Limit drop-down menu.
  • SAVE.
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