Editing quizzes with learner attempts
D2L recommends careful consideration before editing quiz questions or quizzes that have been released to learners and have learner attempts completed or in-progress. Changes you make to due date and time limit setting do not impact past attempts or in-progress attempts by users.
Edits to quiz due dates and time limits
Existing quiz due dates and time limits are locked at the time a learner begins a quiz attempt. Changes you make to due date and time limit settings on published quizzes will not impact past attempts or in-progress attempts by users. Only new quiz attempts will use the updated due date and time limit settings.
Edits to quiz scores and grading
Changes that alter the score or grading method of quiz questions apply only to the edited version of the quiz for future attempts.
The following types of edits to quiz questions can change the overall grade of a quiz.
- Changing the points associated with a question in a quiz
- Adding or removing a question
- Changing the bonus status of a question
Quiz content and score edits do not apply to completed attempts or attempts in progress. Previous quiz attempts reflect the quiz content and scoring as it appeared to each learner at the exact time they started their attempt.
Overall grade calculations appear as follows for edited quizzes with unaltered previous attempts:
- When using the Highest Attempt, First Attempt, Last Attempt, and Lowest Attempt methods, the learner's actual attempt numerator and denominator are used to calculate the Overall Grade. The denominator in Overall Grade for previous attempts is not changed by edits that alter the quiz score for future attempts. The Overall Grade is determined by the highest percentage score across all attempts.
- For the Average Attempt method, the learner's percentage scores are averaged and displayed using the denominator of the most recently edited version of the Quiz.
Update question scores for previous attempts on quizzes
You can directly alter learner scores on specific questions in previous attempts on an edited quiz using Update All Attempts.
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- From the Actions drop-down menu of the quiz you have edited, click Grade.
Figure: The Grade option in the Actions drop-down menu.
- In the Questions tab, select Update all attempts.
- Click the quiz question that you want to grade.
- Enter grades for all respondents in the appropriate Grading Type field.
- Click Save.
Reset quiz attempts
Learners may experience technical issues while taking a quiz. If necessary, you can delete a quiz attempt for your learner and provide the opportunity to retake their quizzes by resetting attempts.
To reset quiz attempts
- On the navbar, click Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down menu beside the quiz with attempts you want to reset, and click Grade.
Figure: The Grade option in the drop-down menu of the quiz.
- Select the check box for each attempt you want to reset and then click the Reset button at the top of the list of quiz attempts.
- Figure: The Reset button on the Manage Quizzes tab.
Note: By default, the Grade Quiz page only displays completed quiz attempts. To view quiz attempts in progress, on the Users tab or the Attempts tab, from the Restrict to filter, select either All attempts or Users with attempts in progress.
Submit in-progress quizzes
Sometimes learners fail to click the Submit button when taking a quiz. If they forget to click Submit, their quiz attempt will appear to be missing. You can impersonate your learner and search for their attempt in order to submit the quiz on their behalf.
To submit an in-progress quiz on behalf of a learner
- In Quizzes, on the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down menu next to the quiz you want to grade.
- Select Grade.
Figure: The Grade option in the Actions drop-down menu.
- On the Users tab, click Show Search Options.
- From the Restrict to drop-down menu, select either All users or Users with attempts in progress.
Figure: The Users tab showing the Restrict to drop-down menu.
- Click the Enter quiz as user icon next to the in-progress quiz and click Submit to submit the Quiz as that user.