This page allows professors to customize the settings for their Assignments and Quizzes, and set exceptions for students.
Student Exceptions are unique groups of settings for an Exercise that apply only to the student they're given to. A student who has exceptions will use those settings instead of the default settings when performing their exercise.
This can be useful for times when students may need an extension to their deadline, or a longer time limit for accessibility. Exceptions apply to all settings except for the values listed in the Exercise Information section below.
Pressing the Student Exceptions button on this page will open a modal to create exceptions for students that may need them.
When Student Exceptions are created, changes to default settings no longer apply to the students with those exceptions. When editing default settings, a speech bubble icon 💬 will appear next to settings that have different values on student exceptions.
Return to the settings that will affect all students who do not have exceptions for this exercise.
Opens another modal with a table displaying all students in the class. Select the rows containing the students that need exceptions, then click “Create Exceptions". Those exceptions can then be selected to edit.
Some of the inputs are to change information about the exercise. These values do not have exceptions.
This weight is used when calculating the weighted sum of grades for the final grade in the course.
The name is used by students and professors to identify the exercise.
If added, it provides more details that can let students know what will be included in the exercise.
Professors should keep this off until they are ready for students to start taking the exercise. Once true, students will be able to see that the exercise is in the course. If the Start Time has not passed yet, they can see it is upcoming. If the Start Time has passed and the Deadline or Late Deadline has not, students will be able to take the exercise.
Allows students to take this exercise again as a Quiz to practice after the solutions are available.
Once this time has passed, students will be able to start the exercise.
After this time has passed, students will no longer be able to start the exercise, unless late submissions are allowed.
After this time has passed, students who have completed their exercises will be able to see their grades.
Make it so that solutions are available to students at a specified time.
After this time has passed, solutions will be visible to students.
Determines whether students can submit an assignment or start a quiz after the deadline has passed.
After this time has passed, students will no longer be able to start the exercise, even if late submissions are allowed.
Give students a limited number of attempts to answer questions.
The number of times a student can answer a question before the option to submit an answer is removed.
Allow students to see the hints written for question parts while answering questions in the exercise.
If Show Hints is enabled, and there is no hint written for a question, no option to see a hint will appear in the exercise pages. However, questions in exercises that are shared or questions copied from a repository may have hints attached. It can be more convenient to disable this setting for an exercise than to inspect every question for a hint.
Enables an input for the students to provide more detailed explanations for their answers.
Randomizes the order the questions are displayed in to the students.
Randomizes the order of answers in Multiple Choice, Multiple Selection, Matching, and Categorizing Questions
Includes a link to the Distributions page for students to use while working on an exercise
Includes a link to the Critical Values page for students to use while working on an exercise
Includes a link to the Advanced Distributions page for students to use while working on an exercise
Advanced settings are for more fine control of exercise behaviour that is less commonly needed.
Alerts students if their submissions contain a mistake that could cost them their mark.
When viewing exercise grades, give the option to view summary statistics for the entire class.
Provide a button that lets students revert their work to the value of their submission kept for grading, clearing it if they have not yet submitted an answer.
Show the student an introduction page at the beginning of the exercise
Give students a fixed amount of time to complete an exercise.
Tells students if their answers are correct or not after submitting.
If Instant Feedback is enabled and students have multiple attempts. They will not be able to make another attempt after submitting the correct answer.
If Instant Feedback is disabled and students have multiple attempts. They will be able to make another attempt after submitting the correct answer. This can result in students unknowingly decreasing their grade by second guessing the correct answer and submitting an incorrect answer.
If enabled the answer that has the highest mark will be used when calculating grades. If disabled the answer that was submitted most recently will be used when calculating grades.
Use random number generation to make questions unique. If this is disabled, then the Fixed Value of Variables will be used.