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I'd like my students to be able to use past quizzes as study material and exam prep, but my students have noted the following:
1. If I put in an end date for quiz availability, it "disappears" from the students' view
2. If I make a quiz available indefinitely, when a student goes back to review it, they basically end up re-taking the quiz, which then gets marked as "late." I didn't set up any penalties for "late" quizzes, so it doesn't seem to actually affect their grade, but I still get a lot of panicked emails.
Is there an easy way to "lock" a quiz after the due date so students can still see and review the questions but they can't actually re-take it? I guess I could always just upload a separate file with all the quiz questions, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution. I should add I'm using the classic "Quizzes" function, not "New Quizzes"
Thanks!
@swoo6 , greetings! If you are using classic quizzes, then you would want to use the "until" date to allow students to view the quiz results, but it would prevent them from taking the quiz. In all actuality, it's hard to hide the results of a quiz, so it's surprising that the quiz isn't showing up for students. For more on this, check out the following - Quiz Settings to Maximize Security.
Kona
Thank you @kona ! My students are allowed to skip a certain number of quizzes, so I think the problem is that when use the "until" date, students aren't able to see questions from the quizzes they skipped (and we also had a fair number of students add the class after some of the quizzes had already posted). I'm just looking for a way that all students can see/review previous quiz questions without having to re-take the quiz. Thanks!
Stephanie
Thanks for the extra information! Even if you don't use the "until" date, students will not be able to see the quiz questions unless they "take" the quiz. They don't have to submit it, but they would have to at least take it to see the questions.
What about with new quizzes?
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