Self-study, task, & exam mode

Self-study mode 

You can make a page which contains a quiz task and/or a written task available to students without setting it as a task. To do this go to the relevant group in "My Groups",  then click Page manager and select the required pages. 


Alternatively, you can go to the page itself, click on the in-page padlock icon. A drop-down menu will appear listing your groups with a padlock next to each one. Click the red padlock icon next to the relevant group to switch the page OK. The padlock will now show green.  Click the padlock again if you wish to switch the page off.


Self-study mode is useful for independent study when you do not need to monitor student progress. If the page contains a quiz task, students will be able to complete the quiz and check their answers, but the grade will not be stored, nor will it appear in the grade book. If they revisit the page, they can take the quiz again. If the page contains a written task, students will not be able to write anything in the text box. But they will be able to see a model answer if one is available.


Task mode 

If you set a page as a task and the page contains a quiz, the score will automatically appear in the grade book when it is submitted by the student. If the page contains a written task, it can be completed and sent to the teacher who can then grade and annotate it, and return it to the student.

You can add a task either by going to the "Task manager" for a group in "My groups" and clicking "Add task", or by going to "All tasks" and clicking "Add task".

Use task mode when you want to track and grade student work. 


Exam mode

When you create a quiz task or a written task, you have the option of setting it in "Exam mode".  This puts a time limit on the amount of time the student can spend on the task, and the task opens in a full screen locked browser. If a student leaves the exam mode window, their teacher is notified.

You can find the "Exam mode" option at the "Set deadline and edit" stage of the "Add task" wizard.  When you click "More options", this is what you see:


When a student opens a pending task in exam mode, they see the following instructions:


As soon as they begin an exam mode task, the clock starts ticking. At the end of the time limit the task will be automatically submitted if the student has not already done so.


During the exam, a student should not leave the exam mode window. If they do, they receive a warning message and their teacher is notified.



Once submitted, quizzes are automatically graded by the system. Written tasks must be graded manually by the teacher. 


View & check a task in exam mode

You can check the current status of each task and the results for every student by clicking on the name of the task in the Task manager tab for that group.

  • An empty student row means that the student has not started the task yet.
  • When you see a small red clock icon, it means that the student has started the task, but not yet submitted it for assessment.
  • When you see a small red clock icon and an exclamation point, it means that the student has started the task and has also "broken the conditions" for assessment.
  • When a student has submitted the task, the assessment marks will be imported into your gradebook.  You will also see whether the exam conditions were broken.

Broken conditions

The purpose of setting exam mode to tasks is to assess the student’s knowledge within a given time limit and without the help of external resources. That is why the task is carried out in a full-screen locked browser on the student side. The following 2 situations are considered as breaking the exam mode conditions and are recorded in the teacher student task log:

  1. Exiting exam mode window (by means of exiting the full-screen mode or switching navigation tabs)
  2. Opening developer tools console

Student task report

Click on the View column in the "Results by student" screen to open a detailed report of the task. Among other things this shows:

  1. Time spent The total amount of time taken from when the student opens the task to when it is submitted.
     
  2. Broken conditions
    Devtools opened The time that the student opened the browser developer tools (useful to modify or tamper the expected JavaScript and HTML behaviour in a web site)
    Exited exam mode window The time that the student either exited full-screen mode and/or switched tabs.

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