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6. Quizzes

The quiz page (reached by clicking any "v1", "v2", … link from the Books page or the dashboard) is where you read, lightly edit, publish, and configure a quiz.

This chapter is about working with an existing quiz. To create a quiz, see Importing quizzes from Excel — that is the only way to introduce a new quiz into LexiScor.

What you see

The page is laid out in three areas:

  1. Header / metadata bar — title, book, version, status, author and last-edit information.
  2. Action bar — the buttons that change a quiz's state (Publish, Archive, Download PDF, settings).
  3. Questions list — a read-only display of every question and answer.

Header / metadata

  • Quiz title and the book it belongs to.
  • Version number — v1, v2, …
  • Status badge — Draft, Published or Archived.
  • Creation mode icon — spreadsheet for Excel-imported quizzes, pencil for the legacy manual editor.
  • Total attempts so far — useful for deciding whether a structural change is safe.
  • Author (who created this version) and last edited (who and when).

The actions you can take

Publish

Promotes a draft quiz to Published state. From that moment on the public URL /book/<isbn> serves this version. If another version of the same book was previously published, it is automatically archived.

A confirmation dialog summarises what is about to happen — quiz title, book, question count — to prevent mistakes.

Archive (or unpublish)

Moves a quiz out of the public view without deleting it. Past attempts remain readable on the Attempts page; the version appears under Archived quizzes on the book detail page.

If you archive the only published quiz for a book, the public URL stops serving any quiz at all — pupils see a friendly "no quiz available" page.

Download PDF

Generates a printable version of the quiz (questions and answers, no correct-answer indicators). Useful for offline classroom work or for sending to teachers for review before publishing.

Settings

Opens a small panel with quiz-level options. The most important is the Shuffle answers toggle — when on, each pupil sees the answer list in a different order. This makes copying between neighbours much harder. Question order is never shuffled.

Other settings (where exposed) include the passing threshold (default 80% — see Tracking attempts for how this is used), and the time limit for completing the quiz (default 30 minutes).

Light editing — fixing typos inline

The questions list is read-only by default, but every question text and answer text is click-to-edit. The workflow is:

  1. Click on a question or answer text. The text becomes a small textarea.
  2. Make your correction.
  3. Press Enter (or click anywhere outside the textarea) to save.
  4. A brief green checkmark confirms the save. The change is immediate — the public site updates the next time someone loads the quiz.
  5. Press Escape at any time to abandon the edit and revert.

Things to remember:

  • There is no local autosave and no "Save all" button. Each edit is a tiny independent save.
  • You can add line breaks inside an answer with Shift + Enter.
  • All inline edits are recorded in an audit log (who changed what, from what, to what, and when). The log is not yet exposed in the UI but the data is there if it is ever needed for accountability.

What inline editing cannot do

To preserve fairness for pupils who already took the quiz, the following changes are not possible in the UI even on a draft:

  • Adding or removing a question or answer
  • Changing which answer is the correct one
  • Changing a question's score
  • Reordering questions

If you need any of those, prepare a fresh Excel file and re-import — see Importing quizzes from Excel. The new file becomes a new version (e.g. v2). When you publish v2, v1 is automatically archived.

Edit restrictions on quizzes that have been taken

Once even a single attempt exists for a quiz, the system makes the restrictions even more visible:

  • A banner at the top of the quiz page reads something like "This quiz has attempts. Only text adjustments are allowed."
  • Any structural button is greyed out with a tooltip explaining why.

This is purely a safety net — the underlying rules are the same as above, but the banner makes it impossible to miss.

A quick mental model

Think of a quiz version as a printed exam paper. Once printed and handed out, you can correct a typo by hand, but you cannot insert a new question on a blank page and expect old answers to still mean the same thing. To change the structure you print a new paper (= import a new version) and start using that one going forward.