M09a9 - Moodle Assignment Allowed Attempts Setting

The allowed attempts setting in Moodle Assignments determines whether a student can submit additional attempts after an assignment has been graded or teachers have provided feedback.

When allowed attempts is set to more than 1, Moodle provides the following options:

• Automatic – A new attempt is automatically reopened once the teacher has graded or provided feedback. 

• Manually – Teachers must manually allow another attempt if needed.

• Automatically until pass – Students can keep attempting until they achieve the required passing grade.
  
  

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  (a student's view after the 2nd attempt is opened)

Key Reminders

• Students can edit and re-upload their work multiple times if the submission has not been manually locked or if no cut-off date has been set. This is independent of the attempt setting.

• Setting a submit button can prevent students from changing their submissions, but this is not generally encouraged (see M09a).

• Even if you are using grading workflow, when a second attempt is granted (manually or automatically), the grades and feedback from the first attempt will be released.