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Time delay between first and second attempt
If you set a time delay, then a student has to wait for that time before they can attempt a quiz after
the first attempt.
Time delay between later attempts
If you set a time delay here, then a student has to wait for that time before they can attempt their
third or later attempts.
Questions per page
For longer quizzes it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of
questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz page breaks will automatically be inserted
according to the setting you choose here. However you will also be able to move page breaks
around by hand later on the editing page.
Shuffle questions
If you enable this option, then the order of questions in the quiz will be randomly shuffled each
time a student attempts the quiz. This is not related to the use of Random Questions, this is only
about the displayed order of questions. The intention is to make it a little harder for students to
copy from each other.
Shuffle within questions
If you enable this option, then the parts making up the individual questions will be randomly
shuffled each time a student starts an attempt at this quiz, provided the option is also enabled in
the question settings. The intention is simply to make it a little harder for students to copy from
each other. This only applies to questions that have multiple parts, such as Multiple Choice or
Matching Questions. For multiple choice questions the order of the answers is shuffled only when
this option is set to "Yes". For matching type questions the answers are always shuffled, this
setting controls whether in addition the order of the question-answer pairs is shuffled.
Attempts Allowed
This setting determines the number of times a student may complete a quiz—this may be set from
one to six, or to unlimited. Select your choice from the drop-down menu.
Each attempt build on the last
If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is set to Yes, then each new attempt contains the
results of the previous attempt. This allows a quiz to be completed over several attempts. To show
a fresh quiz on every attempt, select No for this setting.
Adaptive mode
If you choose Yes for this option then the student will be allowed multiple responses to a question
even within the same attempt at the quiz. So for example if the student's response is marked as
incorrect the student will be allowed to try again immediately. However a penalty will usually be
subtracted from the students score for each wrong attempt (the amount of penalty is determined
by the penalty factor).
This mode also allows adaptive questions that can change themselves in response to a student's
answer. Here is how the IMS QTI specification defines adaptive questions (items):
An adaptive item is an item that adapts either its appearance, its scoring (Response
Processing) or both in response to each of the candidate's attempts. For example, an
adaptive item may start by prompting the candidate with a box for free-text entry but, on
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