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Re-enable the Active/Inactive option for tests (after someone started)

Since 2021 all published tests cannot now be marked as inactive as the system prevents it saying that "You can't change the visibility of .... because someone is currently working on it". This prevents the course progress report as being accurate as we cannot archive questions. It is really quite frustrating as the only thing to do is delete the question thereby losing all records. Even copying the question into another course produces the same problem preventing making the question inactive. Let's make it possible to make questions inactive again.

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  • Aug 25 2023
  • Planned
Country UK
Category Content creation and management
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    Product Team commented
    11 Jan 12:52

    Thanks for your input. We are painfully aware this is an issue, albeit a deliberate one. Making a test invisible while someone is taking it will give an error for those students and they are unable to continue or complete their attempt. I understand that in your case these attempts are in reality outdated and should not be there and will not cause issues, but we have no way to detect what the intention of the student is or whether the ongoing attempt is in fact valid or void.

    We are looking into a solution where a teacher or admin is able to delete those ongoing attempts (with the same challenge: this will cause an error for the students in question).

    If you copy the test into another course, it can freely be deactivated in that new course, this works just fine. Submissions and ongoing attempts are not included in the copy process.

    I am assuming you with "question" are in fact referring to a test, not a question inside a test. I have thus taken the liberty to edit the title of your idea to reflect this for others to easily understand the problem.

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