Grant a Quiz Extension
This guide covers how to use overrides to give specific students (or groups of students) different quiz settings. For example, you might use this if you want to open a quiz early for a specific student, have different due dates for different class sections, or accommodate extra time for quiz attempts.
What Can be Changed With Overrides
Overrides allow you to change the following settings:
- Open the quiz date: The first day / time students will be able to attempt the quiz.
- Close the quiz date: The last day / time students will be able to submit the quiz. This is also the the day / time that displays to students on the quiz page and in the Moodle Calendar.
- Time limit: How long students have to submit the quiz after they’ve started.
- Attempts allowed: How many times students can attempt the quiz.
This guide shows how to have a different quiz close date for a specific individual, but the process is the same for overriding other quiz settings. Note that you cannot override the “Expect completed on” date.
Steps
- Open the quiz you want to add the override to.
- Click the gear icon at the top right of the page then select User overrides. If you put students into a group, you can also use the Group overrides option.
- On the page that opens, click the Add user override button. Then you’ll be on the user override settings page.
- Select the student or group you want to add an override for from the user dropdown.
- You can specify the open and close dates, the time limit, and the number of attempts allowed. Check the Enable checkbox next to the settings you want to change (if they’re grayed out). These changes will only apply to the student or group you’ve specified in step 4.
- Click Save.
- You’ll see the overrides you just added in the list of overrides.
