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How do I set restrictions for a quiz?

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With the Restrictions tab you can decide:

  • whether a quiz is displayed to students and/or has a deadline (status, deadline and availability);
  • whether there are release conditions attached to the quiz;
  • whether the quiz has a time limit (restrictions);
  • whether students need to enter a password before they can start on the quiz and/or can only do the quiz when they are working from a certain IP-address;
  • if there is a time frame in which the students need to complete the quiz;
  • if you want to allow (certain) students to get special access to the quiz (for example extra time for a student with a visual disability).
  • Go to Activitiesin the navbarof your course.
  • Click Quizzes. You will land on the quiz homepage.
  • Click the arrow next to the title of the quiz you want to edit.
  • Click Edit.
  • Click the arrow next toAvailability Dates  Conditions to unfold the tab.

Availability dates & Release Conditions

  1. Under Start Date, choose from when students can take the quiz.
  2. Under End Date, choose from when students can no longer take the quiz.
  3. If you tick Add availability dates to Calendar the Start Date and the End Date will be visible in the Brightspace Calendar.
  4. Under Release Conditions, you set conditions to your quiz that students must meet before they can take the quiz. A quiz can have multiple release conditions (for example: students can only access the quiz once they have turned in assignment 1 and/or fully ticked off the checklist from lecture week 1).
    • Click Add Existing to add existing release conditions.
    • Click Create New to add new release conditions.

Take a look at the manual What are release conditions and how do I use them for more information and advice on release conditions.

Date restrictions and release conditions are adopted if you make the quiz available in Content. If you edit these date restrictions and/or release conditions in Content for a topic of the quiz type (via Edit Properties In-place or in the topic itself), this will also be applied to the quiz, not just to the topic.

Time limit

On the quiz editing page, you will find four tabs on the right-hand side. You can enter a time limit on the Timing & Display tab. Click the arrow next to Timing & Display to open this tab.

  1. You can set a time limit here. To do so, enable Set time limit.
  2. Enter the time limit.
  3. Then click on Timer Settings.

You will be shown several options.

  1. Below Quiz Startchoose for:
    • Asynchronous if you want the timer to start when the students starts the quiz;
    • Synchronous if you want the timer to start at the start date and time. You can set the start date under availability dates.
  2. Below When The Time Limit Expireschoose for:
    • Automatically submit the quiz attemptif you want the quiz to be automatically submitted when the time limit is reached;
    • Flag as 'exceeded time limit' and allow the learner to continue working if you want the student to continue taking the quiz after the time is up, but it will be marked as an attempt not completed within the time limit;
    • Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced if you want the time limit to be an indication only, but with no further consequences.

The Synchronous setting can be useful when you want the quiz to end at exact the same moment for each student, independent from the time the student started the quiz.
With the Asynchronous setting each student will have the same amount of time to complete the quiz.


Reopening a quiz

It is possible to reopen a student's last submitted quiz attempt, allowing them to continue where they left off. This can be useful if time ran out or the end date was missed. This avoids frustration caused by automatic submissions and makes quiz management more flexible. Depending on whether a time limit or due date was set, you can give the student more time or set a later submission date. Reopen a quiz attempt applies to a specific student.

Special Access

Special Access is a feature in Quizzes that allows you to grant participants special access. You can find Special Access under Release Conditions in the Availability Dates & Conditions tab. Read here how to set up Special Access.

Password and IP restrictions

You can optionally secure your quiz with a password and/or IP restriction. Only users who enter the password and/or use a permitted IP address can then access the quiz:

Enter a password under Password.

Click Manage IP Range to define the IP addresses. Then enter one or more IP ranges and click Add.

At the bottom left of the quiz editing page, click Save or Save and Close to save all added restrictions.

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