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  1. Quizzes
  2. Creating a Quiz

Quiz Experience

A detailed look into the quiz configuration settings

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Once you've created your quiz it's time to set the configuration to enforce how this quiz can be used. Go to Quiz>Experience to to edit the quiz experience.

๐Ÿšจ Quizzes in exams will have some configurations overridden by the exam level configuration

Allowed Modes

Select the modes users will be able to take the quiz in, in order to have a Timed exam, the timer must be enabled.

  • Practice: Untimed, questions are marked after each response, students shown answers immediately and feedback is given instantly.

  • Exam: Untimed, questions are marked at the end of an attempt, feedback given depending on results page configuration

  • Timed exam: Untimed, questions are marked at the end of an attempt. If there are no sections then timer can be set on this page. If sections are being used, times will be calculated from the section page. Timer must be enabled before this mode can be selected

Allowed lengths

When the quiz is taken via a Collection or Assignment, you can define whether they can take a subset of questions within the quiz. The allowed length settings is where you choose what subset lengths are available for them to choose from.

Please note that it is not currently possible for users to take a subset of questions in a quiz which has sections. If your quiz has sections we recommend selecting the 'All questions' option here.

Timer

If you select Timed Exam from the allowed modes list, the timer settings will become visible

Infer timer: Time for quiz will be calculated based on the individual timers on each question. By default this will be 2 minutes per question but you can change the timer for a question using the configuration drop down on each question.

Soft timer: If enabled, student can continue with the section / attempt after the timer runs out

Enforce full time: Will not allow students to finish the quiz (or section) before the time runs out (generally we don't recommend you use this)

Security

(Stop copy and paste)

These settings allow you to restrict students' ability to copy and / or paste in a test. Whilst this will stop the majority of students being able to copy and paste it is important to understand the limitations of the feature.

What is blocked:

  • Copying of question content (including text and images) via keyboard shortcuts and right clicking

  • Copying from the results page

  • Pasting into the answer box

  • Dragging content into the answer box

What is not blocked:

  • Screenshots

  • Copying of videos, this is down to the sharing settings on the video's host site (YouTube, Vimeo etc)

  • Technical attempts of copying and pasting, for example via the DOM editor/browser

If you are concerned about further protecting your IP and / or outlining the consequences of cheating, we strongly recommend including some copy in your Terms and Conditions explaining this to your end users.

Disable right click: Prevents the context menu from appearing when a user right clicks

Navigation

Prevent navigation between questions: Stops users from moving back to previous questions or skipping on to questions out of order

Disable control panel: Users will not be able to open the control panel to the right of the screen

If you have tools like calculator, lab values and notepad (see below) enabled, then users will not be able to access them if you select 'Disable control panel'

Disable notifications: Stops Synap generated notifications such as pre-warnings when submitting and warnings on skipped questions

Soft sections: Enabling soft sections means users will be able to view previously submitted sections but they cannot change their answers

Shuffle sections: Shuffle the order of sections in a quiz or exam so different users will have a different order of sections.

Shuffle questions: Shuffle the order of questions in a section

Calculator: Enable or disable either a standard or scientific calculator

Notepad: This functionality allows users to enable a temporary note pad during the execution of quizzes or examinations, offering the capacity to make annotations related to specific questions. These notes will not be saved after the attempt is submitted and will not be visible to you as an admin.

Strikethrough: This functionality allows users to strikethrough an option they feel is not the correct option allowing them to focus on those they think are / might be

Highlighting: This functionality allows users to highlight key parts of the question stem.

Bookmarking: This feature allows users to bookmark a question so they can easily find it and come back to it later. It's important to note that bookmarking a question won't allow users to come back to it if they submit the section it is in. Users can easily find their book marked question by opening the quiz controls in the right hand menu.

Lab values: Here you can add a resource which users can access via the quiz control panel to the right of the screen. There is a rich text editor where you can enter things like a passage of text or periodic table.

Flagging: Enable or disable the ability for students to flag a question for content moderation by admins.

Microphone settings: Enabling this setting will allow users to choose which audio recording device they want use on an audio recording question

Show available marks: Displays the available marks for a question to the user during the attempt

Pinned message: Set a message which will appear at the bottom of the page throughout a users attempt

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