This article contains a brief video overview of assessment settings and a detailed list of common and advanced assessment settings that should be reviewed and set by instructors before their course begins.
Available Date controls when students can begin the assessment. By default, assessments begin as Always available. If needed, instructors can set a date and time to control when students may start.
Due Date controls when the assessment is due. By default, assessments begin with No due date. Instructors can add a due date if the assessment should be completed by a specific deadline.
# Attempts controls how many times a student may attempt the assessment. The most common options are:
If you want students to keep working until they master the material, unlimited attempts may be appropriate. If you want to limit retries, choose a specific number.
Time Limit controls how long students have to complete an attempt. Use 0 (Unlimited) if there should be no time limit. If a time limit is set, exceptions can later be used to allow more time for individual students.
Late Policy controls what happens when a student works past the due date or time limit. Late submissions are marked Late in OLI Torus.
The available options are:
If late submission is not allowed, an in-progress attempt will submit at the deadline, whether that deadline is based on the due date or the time limit.
Grace Period is the number of minutes allowed past the due date to allow an on-time submission. For example, if the due date is 11:59 PM and the grace period is 10 minutes, a submission within that window can still be treated as on-time.
Scoring Strategy controls how the assessment score is calculated when there is more than one attempt.
The options are Best (most common), Average, Most Recent.
Retake Mode controls what students see on later attempts.
Targeted retakes are often used when the goal is to help students focus only on the questions they missed.
Exceptions can be added for individual students. Exceptions are most commonly used to:
If exceptions have been added, the number of exceptions will appear in the Exceptions field. That number can be clicked to view and edit exceptions.
These settings are available to instructors but are not usually changed from their defaults:
Presentation controls how questions are displayed.
Scoring Mode controls when scoring is shown to students.
Replacement only applies in a very narrow use-case if the assessment includes questions with variables that change when the question is presented again. This is a common scenario for Real Chem which has many questions with dynamic variables where a question may appear as 50% of 250 in one instance and then 30% of 500 in the next when generating for additional attempts or for other students.
If the assessment does not include variable-based questions, this setting does not affect the student experience.
A separate article covers Replacement in detail: Understanding the Replacement Assessment Setting for Dynamic Variable Questions
View Feedback controls whether students can view author-created feedback after submitting and reviewing an attempt.
If the author designed feedback, then with Allow, students can see correct, incorrect, or targeted feedback when they submit and review their attempt. Many authors design incorrect-answer feedback so it helps the student without giving away the answer, though that can vary by assessment.
If Disallow is selected, students will not see the feedback. They will only see whether their answer was correct or incorrect (if View Answers is set to Allow) before moving on to another attempt.
If Scheduled is selected, students can view the feedback only after a selected date, such as after a due date.
Feedback is designed by the author, so it may or may not be present in a given assessment and may have a varying amount of detail based on the design of the specific course.
View Answers controls whether students can see their own submitted answers after they submit and review an attempt.
Password controls whether a password is required to access the assessment.
The default is blank which is most common. Instructors most commonly use a password in proctored settings or if an assessment is only available after the student reaches another offline milestone such as submitting other materials or meeting with an instructor.
Allow Hints controls whether hints are available to students when the author has designed hints for the questions. Hints are authored content, so they may or may not exist in a given assessment. If hints are available from the author, this instructor setting determines whether students can use them.
For most assessments, instructors should review at least these settings before students begin:
The remaining settings are important but less commonly changed from their defaults unless there is a specific instructional or proctoring need.