Once an exam is created, we need to add questions to it and configure it. The settings allow us to configure, among other things, the due date, the number of attempts, or the grading scale used for scoring.

Access the exam. You will see that the settings panel displays the most significant settings. Click the gear icon to start the configuration.

In Details and Information, we will set the exam due date. If there is no due date, check the corresponding box.

You can also decide whether late submissions are allowed, with the checkboxes Do not allow late submissions and Do not allow new attempts after the submission date. The second is automatically checked when the first is selected. Checking these boxes means that when the submission date arrives, all attempts in progress will end at the same time. In other words, someone who started 2 minutes before the end of the time will have 2 minutes to complete their attempt.

We will also select whether class conversation is allowed for the item.

In Display Options, you choose options such as whether questions are shown one at a time, if users can go back to answer questions they skipped, or if questions, answers, and/or pages are randomized. These options mean that each user (and each attempt) will be different, even if they have the same questions.

If the exam is formative, you can mark it as such, for both you and the student. In that case, a label indicating this characteristic will be shown. Be careful, as this does not prevent it from being included in gradebook calculations: You will have to remove it yourself from those calculations.

In the Grades and Submissions area, we will specify the allowed attempts (1 to 10 or unlimited), as well as which category in the gradebook the exam will be placed in. We can also select the scale that will be used for grading.

If more than one attempt is allowed, you must indicate which attempt’s grade is recorded in the gradebook (highest, lowest, average of all attempts, first, or last).

Also in this section, we can enable Anonymous Grading, which hides students' names, and Delegated Grading, which allows more than one grader for this activity.

Choose whether you want exam grades to be published automatically when they become available or not. This means that if enabled, each student will receive their grade (and everything configured to be visible at that time) as soon as all questions are graded.

In Assessment Results, we can choose what the student sees and when. To configure it, click the link under Submission View and the available options will open in the panel.

These options let us control what and when the student sees elements such as their own submission, question comments, scores for answers in their submission, or the correct answers for exam questions.

The options work in a cascading manner, so if you do not allow them to see their submissions, none of the other options will be available.

Therefore, first choose if you want students to see their submissions and when: After submission, after publishing this student’s grade, after the exam due date, after publishing all class grades, on a specific date, or only once.

After selecting this option, move to the next and choose which interests you most. Not all will be available, as they depend on your previous dropdown choice. If you don’t want them to see something at any point, uncheck the corresponding box.

Click Save to record the changes and return to the other settings.

In Assessment Security, we can add an access code to control who can enter the exam. Codes are generated randomly and cannot be customized. Click Add Access Code and toggle the switch. The random code will be generated, which you can refresh, copy, and view using the icons shown next to it.

If you have tools like Respondus Lockdown integrated into your environment for proctoring, they will also appear here, with a link to access their configuration.

Finally, you can add Location Restrictions for the exam. This option is first configured in administration by assigning each location an IP address range, and then by selecting one of those ranges here, it will require the exam to be taken from an IP within that range.

In Additional Tools, you can set a time limit for the exam and also decide what happens when the time expires: whether it is submitted automatically or students are allowed to continue working. In the latter case, the instructor can see which answers were saved after time expired.

If continuing to work is allowed, we can specify how much extra time students have and whether answers submitted after time can be graded with a penalty.

You can also align the exam to institutional goals if defined and enable SafeAssign for the exam.