4.24. Enabling Timed Exams#
This topic describes how to enable the timed exams feature in your instance of Open edX.
4.24.1. Overview#
Course teams can configure course subsections to limit the amount of time that learners have to complete problems in that subsection.
To use this feature on your instance of Open edX, you must enable the timed exams feature in Studio and the Learning Management System.
For information about how course teams set up timed exams, see the Offering Timed Exams topic in Building and Running an Open edX Course. For information about the learner experience, see Taking a Timed Exam in the Open edX Learner’s Guide.
Note
Before proceeding, review Guidelines for Updating the Open edX Platform.
4.24.2. Enable Timed Exams in Studio and the Learning Management System#
To enable timed exams, you modify the lms.yml
and
studio.yml
files, which are located one level above the edx-platform
directory.
Set the value of
ENABLE_SPECIAL_EXAMS
in thelms.yml
andstudio.yml
files totrue
.# Timed exams feature flag 'ENABLE_SPECIAL_EXAMS': true,
Save the
lms.yml
andstudio.yml
files.Restart the Studio (CMS) and Learning Management System (LMS) processes so that your updates are loaded.