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

Quiz Timing Restrictions

Quiz timing can be confusing, and the descriptions available in D2L of these restrictions are not always intuitive. While D2L has provided the following information to guide users through this process, members of the LTC staff decided to conduct an “experiment” to better understand the ways in which the timing restrictions work.

Three quizzes were developed for the purpose of this experiment. Each quiz was completed and submitted after the time limits to determine the effect of the timing restrictions. The questions for each quiz were identical, but the Timing restrictions were modified in the following manner:

Condition 1: Set a Time Limit, Grace Period, and Use Late Limit, as well as select enforced and show clock.Condition 1 results: The quiz submission was flagged in red as late, and the student received a 0 for the quiz.

Condition 2: Set a Time Limit and Grace Period, as well as select enforced and show clock.Condition 2 results: The quiz submission was only flagged in red as late. Points were given to the student for the correct quiz answers.

Condition 3: Set a Time Limit, Grace Period, and Use Late Limit with only show clock selected.
Condition 3 results: The quiz submission was not flagged as late, and the student received points for the correct quiz answers.Overall, selecting the enforced restriction flags late quiz submissions in red. This can be helpful to instructors who want to know which students exceeded the allotted quiz time. Using a Late Limit in conjunction with enforced not only flags the quiz as late, but the student will be given 0 points for the quiz. Instructors should be cautious about using Late Limit with the enforced restriction unless they plan to be strict about granting 0 points for late quiz submissions.

Additionally, students will know how much time is allowed and how much time is spent on the quiz as this clock is always in upper left hand corner:  Est. Length: 0:05:00  Time Taken: 0:03:00.

D2L 9.2.1 SP3 – September 2011

Quizzes: time restricted quiz

Question: When a student clicks the start quiz link to a time-restricted quiz, does the time clock start and continue even if the student closes the D2L browser window before submitting the quiz?

Yes, if a quiz has a time limit once the student clicks the Start Quiz link the time starts regardless if the quiz is submitted.  Moreover if the quiz is set to allow for normal submission the student can submit the quiz even if the time limit and grace period have expired. Submissions after the grace period will be flagged as late. Please note: once a student starts a quiz saves his/her responses exits the quiz without submitting it the clock is still ticking.