How to Add a User Override to a Quiz

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The time limit, deadline, and number of attempts allowed settings on a quiz can be overridden for specific users on specific quizzes to allow for accommodations or extensions. These overrides must be entered for each quiz to which the override applies. In other words, if a user has a time limit accommodation for all exams in the course, overrides must be set up on each exam.

To add time limit, deadline, and attempt accommodations to a quiz, first select the quiz’s link on the course home page.

Question behavior settings showing 'Shuffle within questions' set to Yes and 'How questions behave' set to Deferred feedback

Click "More".

Screenshot of a learning management system page for a "Sample Quiz" in a course titled "I'm Ready: A Breif History of Spongebob" at Oklahoma City Community College, showing options to 'Preview quiz' and that 'Attempts allowed: 1'.

Click "Overrides".

Screenshot of a learning management system page for a "Sample Quiz" at Oklahoma City Community College, with a dropdown menu under "More" showing options: Overrides, Filters, Logs, Backup, and Restore.

Click "Add user override".

Screenshot of a learning management system page for a "Sample Quiz" with the "Overrides" option selected from the "More" dropdown menu, showing a section for "User overrides" and the button "Add user override."

This will load the **Edit Override** page. Select the name of the student for whom you wish to add an override to the list of students in the dropdown menu.

Screenshot of a learning management system page for a "Sample Quiz" at Oklahoma City Community College, showing the "Override" editing form. The form allows overriding settings like 'Override user', 'Require password', 'Open the quiz', 'Close the quiz', 'Time limit', and 'Attempts allowed'.

The settings below the list of names will populate with the settings already in the quiz. The deadline, time limit, or attempts allowed settings should be adjusted as desired in this area.

Close-up of the "Override" editing form, showing "Marci Moore" selected as the "Override user," with fields for 'Require password', 'Open the quiz', 'Close the quiz', 'Time limit', and 'Attempts allowed'.

Adjusting the settings here will override the quiz’s default settings for the selected user. The open and close times for the quiz can be overridden for the student using the **Open the quiz** and **Close the quiz** settings. The time limit can be overridden by adjusting the **Time limit** setting, and the number of attempts the selected student is allowed on the quiz can be adjusted with the **Attempts allowed** setting.

**Note**: If you allow students to retake a quiz for which they already have one submission, the **Attempts allowed** setting should be set to 2 to accommodate the extra attempt. However, if you have deleted previous submission, this setting should be set to 1 to allow only one attempt.

After selecting the Save button, you will see a list of all of the overrides which have been successfully added to the quiz. This process should be repeated for all of the other quizzes in your course which requires user overrides.

A table showing "User overrides" for a quiz, listing "Marci Moore" with the email "marci.m.moore@occc.edu," showing an override of "Attempts 2," and icons for editing, duplicating, and deleting the override.

If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact the Center for Learning and Teaching by emailing [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu) or by calling 405-682-7838!