You can moderate assessment settings for individual students in New Quizzes. Moderation settings apply only to the assessment that you are moderating and include reopening assessment attempts and managing timer settings. Reopening a student's assessment will reopen a student's most recent attempt. Previously recorded responses will be retained and the assessment timer will resume from its remaining time from the previous submission.

Moderation timer settings apply to all attempts for the assessment in which they were set. You can add a specific amount of minutes or hours to each attempt, or remove time limit requirements. Only one timer setting can be selected for each student. To adjust timer settings for all assessments in the module for a student, you can add accommodations.

Note: If timer settings are set at both the module level and the assessment level, module-level settings are applied first. Assessment-level settings cannot be reduced by module-level settings.

Note: Quiz availability dates still apply when moderating a quiz. If the Until date passes before a student completes an extra attempt or extended-time quiz, any in-progress quizzes auto-submit and the quiz closes, even if the student's attempt has not expired.


To moderate an assessment in New Quizzes, complete the following steps.

  1. In New Quizzes, click the Moderate tab on the top of the screen.  
  2. Find the student that you want to moderate , then click Moderate. 
  3. Optional: To reopen a student's most recent assessment:
    1. To reopen the student's most recent assessment attempt, click Reopen.
    2. A warning message displays to inform you that the student can resume their assessment attempt from its previous position. To accept and reopen the assessment, click Reopen.
  4. Optional: To give a student additional attempts for the assessment, enter a number or use the arrow buttons in the Additional Attempts field.
  5. Optional: To adjust the timer settings for the student, select from the Time adjustments list. 
    1. To add additional time to the assessment attempt, select the Give additional time from the list, then select the amount of time. Time units can be set to minutes or hours.
    2. To remove the time limit from the attempt, select Remove time limit (unlimited).

View the moderation timer settings in the Accommodations column. This column displays the cumulative effect of module-level accommodations and moderation timer settings.

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If students are currently taking an assessment, the Moderate tab displays the number of in-progress attempts.

To manually submit in-progress attempts, complete the following steps.


  1. Click the attempts link. Students with in-progress quiz attempts display in the Students list.
  2. By default, you can manually submit quizzes for all students in the list. If you do not want to manually submit a student's assessment, clear the checkbox for the student. To manually submit the assessment for the selected students, click Submit Manually.