About editing an assignment
As an author, you may want to change the content and/or settings of your assignment. The editing possibilities depend on the status of your assignment:
When your assignment has the status Draft, To be reviewed, or Reviewed, you can edit its content and settings without any restrictions. All your changes will be saved automatically.
When your assignment has the status Approved, you must first enable the Edit mode before you can modify the content and/or settings of your assignment. Changes to the assignment are not autosaved, but must be explicitly confirmed by you.
When your assignment has the status Live, a restricted number of editing possibilities are available via the Edit mode. Changes to the assignment are not autosaved, but must be explicitly confirmed by you.
Overview:
Assignment status | Editing possibilities | Edit mode | Autosave |
Draft To be reviewed Reviewed | Unlimited | Not applicable | Yes |
Approved | Unlimited | Required | No |
Live | Restricted | Required | No |
Restrictions for editing live assignments
To ensure the integrity of the assignment, the editing possibilities for live assignments are restricted:
Modifications | Allowed | Comment |
Assignment name | Yes |
|
Items tab | No |
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Path tab | No |
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Score and results tab | Yes | All score and result settings can be modified. |
Behaviour tab | No |
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Security tab | No |
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Details | Yes | The description, tags and access can be modified. |
Note: If you still need to make changes to the content, behaviour, and/or security settings of a live assignment, there are two options:
Either you delete all sessions of the live assignment (for more information, see Deleting a session). All results are thereby also removed from the reports and statistics. The assignment will then regain the status Approved.
Or you duplicate the assignment. The duplicated assignment will then again receive the status Draft. You can edit the assignment without restrictions and schedule the assignment again.
Editing an approved assignment
Proceed as follows to edit an approved assignment:
Go to Authoring > Assignments.
Open the assignment you want to edit.
Click the Edit button in the top right corner.
Result: The assignment is opened in Edit mode.Make the necessary changes to the assignment content and/ or settings.
Tip: When you edit an item in the item bank and return to the assignment you were working on, you need to update the item to the latest version in your assignment. You can quickly update by clicking on the Update icon.
Click Save to leave edit mode.
Result: A confirmation screen is displayed.Click Save to make sure your changes are applied. You can optionally enter a comment explaining what you changed and why. The comment will appear in the assignment history.
Result: Your assignment is updated.
Note: You may get an error message when you want to save your changes. This can happen when there are participants who have started this assignment while you were editing it. If they have started the assignment already, you cannot save content changes anymore because the assignment's status has become Live automatically.
Editing a live assignment
Proceed as follows to edit a live assignment:
Go to Authoring > Assignments.
Open the assignment you want to edit.
Click the Edit button in the top right corner.
Result: The assignment is opened in Edit mode.Make the necessary changes to your assignment settings.
Note: The editing possibilities in a live assignment are limited. For more information, see Restrictions for editing live assignments above.
Click Save to leave edit mode.
Result: A confirmation screen is displayed.Confirm that you understand that your changes will affect the ongoing or finished sessions of your assignment.
Note: You can optionally enter a comment explaining what you changed and why. The comment will appear in the assignment history.
Click Save.
Result: Your assignment is updated. The assignment results, certificates, and item analysis of finished sessions are updated. For ongoing sessions, the assignment details are not updated immediately, but only after the sessions have been finished.