Quiz: User and Group Overrides

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Your initial course quiz settings can be overridden to set special quiz access for individuals or for groups of students. For example, an individual student can be given additional time to take a timed quiz, such as when a student has a Disability Services accommodation. A quiz can also be re-opened for a student who missed it.

NOTE: Use the Unlimited Time user role to allow a student to not have time limits on any quiz. This give an extension on all quiz activities in your course, instead of you having to set user or group overrides for each quiz separately.

User Overrides

A quiz can be re-opened after its Close date for a student who missed it. A different Time limit or number quiz Attempts allowed can also be modified for individual students. This is done with User overrides

Enter the Quiz where you want to add the extended time accommodation.

Click More from the secondary navigation, and select the Overrides option.

Click the Add user override button

From Override user drop-down menu, select the student who needs the accommodation.

NOTE: If you want to set the same override for multiple students, create a group and use the group override instead.

Modify the appropriate quiz settings:

  • Open and Close date and time.
  • Time limit for the quiz.
  • The number of Attempts allowed.

Click the Save button.

NOTE: If you need to add a different override to this same quiz, you can use the Save and enter another override button.

Group Overrides

Group overrides allow you to have different quiz settings for Groups of students within your course. Different Open and Close dates can be set. A different Time limit or number of quiz Attempts allowed can be set for groups of students.

NOTE: Group overrides will be copied when you import a course. If you use similar quiz accommodations each term you might consider setting up a group override for the accommodation. Then each term you just need to add the students to the correct group instead of creating individual user overrides each term.

Create Groups within your course, if you haven’t already.

Enter the Quiz where you want to add the extended time accommodation.

Click More from the secondary navigation, and select the Overrides option.

Select Group overrides from the drop-down menu.

Click the Add group override button.

From Override group drop-down menu, select the group you want to modify quiz settings for.

Modify the appropriate quiz settings:

  • Open and Close date and time.
  • Time limit for the quiz.
  • The number of Attempts allowed.

Click the Save button.

NOTE: If you need to add a different override to this same quiz, you can use the Save and enter another override button.

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