Extra time, extra attempts and access arrangements
Access arrangements are per student, not per task. You can give one person longer, or another attempt, and the rest of the class is unaffected and does not know.
Longer on a timed task
A time limit is the module’s setting, and an arrangement on top of it is the student’s. The clock they see is their own, so twenty-five per cent extra time is twenty-five per cent extra time and not a conversation about when to start.
Set it on the student’s account, in Extra time on timed quizzes, as a percentage: 25 gives them a quarter longer. Despite its label it applies to every task with a time limit, a quiz or not, in your college or in the Public college’s lessons. The most you can give is 100, which doubles the time. Any member of staff who may edit the account may set it.
You set a number and never a reason. The need behind an arrangement is health information, so there is deliberately nowhere to type one, and the student is told nothing: nothing on the quiz page names an arrangement, their countdown is simply longer.
It changes only where the clock runs out. A quiz is never cut off, so a go past even the longer limit is still taken and marked, and recorded with how long it took.
Another go at a quiz
Sending a quiz back adds an attempt. It does not delete the one they had, so the record still shows both.
Questions people ask
- Does the class see that somebody has extra time?
- No. It is on that student’s own copy of the task.
- Can I give extra time after they have started?
- Yes. The clock is read against when they began, so adding time adds time.