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Timer, review, and attempts

The settings on a quiz container: how long, how many tries, what the learner sees on submit.

A quiz has its own settings sheet, separate from the questions inside it. The sheet covers the quiz as a whole: timer, review, attempts, and whether the learner can go back through their answers.

Open the sheet from the quick menu when the quiz is selected.

Timer

The timer is off by default. When you turn it on, the learner sees a countdown at the top of the quiz that starts the moment they open it.

The duration is in minutes. Set the time you want the whole quiz to take; the timer counts down regardless of which question the learner is on.

When time runs out, the quiz auto-submits with whatever the learner has answered so far. Unanswered questions count as wrong.

Use a timer for time-pressured assessments. Leave it off when you want the learner to work at their own pace.

Review timing

Review controls when the learner sees how they did. There are two options:

  • After quiz submission (the default) — the learner finishes the whole quiz before they see any feedback or scores.
  • After each answer — the learner sees feedback after each question, before they move to the next one.

Use After quiz submission when you don’t want feedback on one question to influence how the learner approaches the next. Use After each answer when the quiz is being used as a teaching tool rather than an assessment.

Review detail

When the learner does see review, you control how much they see:

  • No review — only the final score, no per-question detail.
  • Result only (the default) — the learner sees which questions they got right and which they got wrong, but not the correct answers.
  • Full review — the learner sees their answer, the correct answer, and any feedback you wrote per question.

Use No review for high-stakes assessments where you don’t want the learner to leave with a worked answer key. Use Full review for practice quizzes where seeing the right answers helps them learn.

Allow backtracking

By default, the learner can go back and change earlier answers before they submit. Turn off Allow backtracking to lock each question once they move past it.

Use locked progression when you want the learner to commit to each answer before they see the next question — for example, when later questions hint at earlier ones, or when you want to prevent double-checking.

Attempts per question

A learner gets 1 attempt per question by default. The setting accepts 1, 2, or 3. Once the learner has used all their attempts on a question, that question locks for them.

This is per-question; it’s separate from how many times they can re-take the whole quiz (which the LMS controls).

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