Moodle allows for individual user overrides and group overrides for quizzes. These overrides can be used to allow a different number of quiz attempts, as well as a different open/close date/time windows and a different time limit.
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So the goal is only to basically to re-open the attempts so the student can finish. However, there isn’t re-open an quiz attempt in Moodle. BUT you can have the system build on that first attempt for a single student…and it’s basically the same.
To an add a second attempt building on the previous for a single user or a group of users by utilizing an override, follow these steps.
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Log on to Moodle and click on your course.
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Click on your quiz on the course homepage.
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From the quiz landing page, look in the upper right corner of the center section of the quiz page for the black ‘edit’ gear wheel. Click on the gear wheel.
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From the drop-down menu that appears, click the ‘Edit settings’ option.
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Scroll down and click on the “Grade” section. Change the “Attempts allowed” from ‘1’ to ‘2’.
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Then, scroll down and expand the “Question behavior” section. Click on the “Show more…” option.
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How to add a second attempt for a single user/group of users by utilizing an override?
Step 1 - Click on the activity you wish to apply changes to.
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Step 2 - Click the gear icon(top right of the page) and select Edit Settings.
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Step 3 - Scroll down to the Grade section and change Attempts allowed from 1 to 2
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Step 4 - Scroll down to the Question Behaviour section and click on Show more
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Step 5 - Change the “Each attempt builds on the last” setting to
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Now we have to save the settings for the whole exam. Scroll down and click the ‘Save and display’ button.
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Now you are back on the quiz homepage. Click on the gearwheel again and select the ‘User overrides’ option.
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On the next screen, click on the “Add user override” button.
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Then on the “Edit override” page, select the student’s name for the “Override user” section. (You can search or select from the from the “Search” drop-down.)
You can adjust the following settings:
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Yes.
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Step 6 - Click Save and Display.
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Next:
Step 1 - Click on the gear icon again and select User overrides.
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Step 2 - Click on Add User Override.
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Step 3 - Under override user, select the student(s) you want to allow.
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Step 4 - Edit the remaining settings.
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Require password – Require the individual with the override to enter a password to complete the quiz.
Open the quiz & Close the quiz
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– Adjust the open and close date/time windows. Don’t forget to check to “Enable” button so that you can adjust these settings.
Time limit
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– Change the time limit. Don’t forget to check to “Enable” button so that you can adjust this setting.
Attempts allowed
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– Allow more (or less) attempts than the quiz defaults.Scroll down and adjust the necessary settings.
Step 5 - Click on Save.
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When you are done, click either the “Save” button. You will be returned to the overrides page and you can review the override to make sure it matches what you intended.
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Immediately return to the main quiz page. Click on the gear wheel in the upper right. From the drop-down menu that appears, click the ‘Edit settings’ option.
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Scroll down and expand the “Grade” section. Change the attempts back to ‘1.’
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You’ll notice that the ‘…builds on…’ setting is grayed out, but switched to ‘Yes.’ That is how you want it.
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