Background
When an assignment has the status Draft, To be reviewed or Reviewed, you can edit its content and properties without any restrictions. All your changes will be saved automatically.
When an assignment has the status Approved, it can be scheduled for your users, i.e. you can use it in a schedule on the assessmentQ portal, you can create access codes for the assignment, you can create Edumail campaigns with this assignment, etc. Because an approved assignment can be scheduled, changes to the assignment are not autosaved anymore, must be explicitly confirmed by you.
When an assignment has the status Live, there are users who have started the assignment and whose results have been saved. Therefore, a live assignment can no longer be modified unless these sessions are deleted. All results are thereby also removed from the reports and statistics. The assignment will then regain its Approved status.
You can also duplicate the assignment. The duplicated assignment will then again receive the status Draft. You can edit the content without restrictions and deliver the assignment again.
Procedure
Proceed as follows to edit an approved assignment:
- Go to Authoring > Assignments.
- Select Assignments in the navigation bar on the left-hand side of your screen.
Result: You see the list of assignments. - Click on the approved assignment you want to edit.
Result: the assignment is opened. - Click the Edit button
in the top right corner.
Result: The assignment is opened in Edit mode. - Change the content or settings you want to change.
Tip: When you edit an item in the item bank and return to the assignment you were working on, you will have to update the item to the latest version in your assignment. You can quickly update by clicking on the Update icon.
- Click the Save button to leave the Edit mode and to make sure your changes are applied. You can optionally enter a comment explaining what you changed or why. The comment will appear in the assignment history.
Result: Your assignment has been saved.
Warning: You may get an error message when you want to save your changes. This can happen when there are users who have started this assignment while you were editing it. If they have started the assignment already, you cannot save your changes anymore because the assignment's status has become Live automatically.