Set time restrictions on a D2L quiz

1. From the D2L Course Home page, click on [Quizzes] in the main navigation bar
2. Click on the title of the quiz in the Quiz List
3. Click on the [Restrictions] tab
4. Scroll down the page to “Timing”
5. Set a time limit for your quiz.  Note: For an “objective” quiz, a time limit of 45 seconds to  1 minute per question is recommended by the literature.
6. Select [Enforced]     Note: Quiz attempts submitted after the time limit + the grace period will be flagged as “late.”  
7. Change [Grace period] to 1 minute    Note: Quizzes submitted after the time limit + the grace period will be flagged as “late.”
8. Under “Late Submissions,” the default is [Allow normal submission].  We recommend the default.
• Note: This means users can always submit their quiz, regardless of time limits. If the quiz is submitted after the Time Limit no points are automatically deducted.  However, a notation will appear in the quiz grading area of the actual time taken to complete the quiz, so the instructor can manually deduct points, if appropriate.  
9. Scroll to the top of the page and click on [Save Quiz].

Other “Late Submissions” options – NOT RECOMMENDED – use only with CAUTION:

• "Use Late Limit" ‐ If you select this option, you must enter a number of minutes for the "late limit."  Users are given a grade of ZERO if they submit the quizafter the time limit + grace period + late limit period.
• “Auto‐Submit Attempt” – Please read the following cautions and notes thoroughly prior to selecting this option!
• Quizzes are NOT submitted automatically.  The student must click “Submit” to complete the quiz submission process.
• The "enforced" checkbox must be selected.
•  Most importantly:   Any questions the student has not SAVED prior to the expiration of the time limit ‐‐ even if they have been answered ‐‐ will not be recorded in D2L when the student submits the quiz attempt.  Students must SAVE their answers before the time limit expires.  
•  If you believe you must choose this option, please give students clear instructions to save each answer before moving to the next question.

D2L 9.2.1 SP3 – October 2011

D2L Quizzes: "Auto-Submit" restriction

It can certainly be confusing -- "Auto-submit" doesn't actually automatically submit the student's quiz attempt. 


Here's a bit more information that might be helpful:


QUESTION 1:  "Is the quiz still accessible to the student after the time limit + grace period expires?"

ANSWER: Yes -- it's still there because there's no way for D2L to, in effect, "take it away" once it's downloaded to the user's local browser page.




QUESTION 2:  "So, theoretically, students could continue trying to take the quiz and answer questions after the time limit is up, and the only way the instructor would know this is by checking each individual record?"

ANSWER: Students can continue to answer questions, but they cannot save their answers.  Any unsaved answers will not be recorded -- so even if the instructor checked each individual record, they will not see the unsaved/unrecorded answers. Those will be blank.

With the "auto-submit" selection, the quiz behaves this way:

• student is able to save the answers to questions as they go along UNTIL time + grace period has expired

• if the student continues to answer questions AFTER the time + grace has expired, they will get no notification UNTIL they attempt to SAVE or SUBMIT QUIZ

• if the student attempts to save answers after the time + grace has expired, they will see a popup message that says "Time Limit Exceeded - The time limit for this quiz has been exceeded, please submit your quiz." ... THESE ANSWERS ARE NOT SAVED, even though the student still needs to click "submit quiz"

• because the answers will not be saved to the system, the answer will be recorded as a blank, and the quiz attempt will score those unsaved answers as "0"

QUESTION 3:  "Will my students get warnings and flags for quizzes submitted 30 seconds late, etc.--amounts of time that are really not important?"

ANSWER:  The student gets a warning, as described above, each time they attempt to save an answer after the time+grace has expired.  D2L doesn't differentiate between "important" or "unimportant" periods of time -- the grace period is designed to cover that kind of "leeway."  The student doesn't get any flags when submitting the quiz late, but the instructor will see a red flag for any quiz submitted late, whether 30 seconds or 30 days.

D2L 9.2.1 SP3 – September 2011