Retaking a Quiz

Instructors may encounter situations where they need to grant students permission to retake a quiz. If the number of attempts in a quiz is already set to unlimited, the students can retake the quiz as many times as desired until the end date. However, if they have maxed out their attempts on a quiz the instructor will have to step in to grant them the ability to attempt the quiz again. This can be done by either granting the student Special Access to the quiz, or by deleting a previous attempt.

Manage Special Access

Students can be granted special access to quizzes, where modifications such as granting additional attempts can be done even after the due/end date for the quiz has passed.

Step 1: Begin editing the quiz

Click the drop-down arrow next to the quiz name, and click Edit at the top of the sub-menu.

Step 2: Click Manage Special Access

Manage Special Access is found within the Availability Dates and Submissions sub-menu on the right-hand side of the assignment editor.

Step 3: Click Add Users to Special Access

Keep Allow selected users special access to this quiz selected. This will make sure that all other students can still see the quiz, while the students granted special access will have custom settings applied.

Step 4: Click Override attempts allowed

Once the Override attempts allowed box is checked, instructors will have the ability to change how many attempts any particular student has. You can read more about Manage Special Access in this article: Accommodations and Exceptions | Add Special Access to an Individual Quiz

Step 5: Add users to the special access

At the bottom of the menu, instructors will have the ability to choose who to grant the special access options too by selecting the box to the left of the student’s name.

Step 6 - Save and close the quiz

The student now has special access to the quiz with any options granted to them by the instructor.

Deleting A Quiz Attempt

While less preferable than giving a student another chance to attempt the quiz through special access, instructors may find deleting the student’s previous quiz attempt to be more favourable.

Step 1: Enter the Grade section of the quiz

Click the drop-down arrow next to the quiz name and select Grade.

Step 2: Locate the student

Search for or scroll to the student who’s attempt is to be deleted.

Step 3: Reset the attempt

Select the attempt by clicking the checkbox on the left-hand side. Then scroll up to the top and click the Reset button (the trash can icon). Click Yes to confirm the reset. The student will now have the ability to retake the quiz.