Navigate Session Settings

Quizizz comes with a bunch of customizable settings you can tweak before kicking off a session. After selecting 'Start Now' for a live session or 'Assign' for homework, you will unlock a whole menu of session settings to fine-tune things just the way you like.

You can customize these settings for Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, Interactive Videos, and even Flashcards to ensure they align with your classroom’s specific needs. These options give you greater control over how students engage with the content and help you create an interactive and effective learning experience. 

Assignment details

1. - Available in all session modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, Interactive Videos, and Flashcards
   
   
   When you assign a session to your students via classes, they will automatically receive a link to join the session. This means they will not have to enter a session code, and you will have more control over who will join your session. 
   
   You can assign a session via classes on Quizizz, Google Classroom, MS Teams, Schoology, Canvas, etc. Begin by clicking on 'Select' and choosing the classes to which you would like to assign the session. You can also assign the session to specific students within the class.  
   
   
   
   To learn more, refer to the article 'Assign a session Using Classes'. 
2. - Available in Homework (Assign) Mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, Interactive Videos, and Flashcards
   
   In this section, you can specify the start and end date and time for a homework session. You can schedule a session up to 30 days in advance.
   
   
   Toggle on the 'Start now' option to begin the session immediately, or toggle it off to set a custom start date and time. Similarly, toggle on the 'No deadline' option if you don’t want the session to have an end time, or toggle it off to specify an end date.
   
   Learn more here: Schedule a Start Time & End Time for a Homework Session
3. - Available in Classic, Mastery Peak, Test, Team, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Interactive Videos, Passages, and Flashcards
   
   
   With this feature, you can provide specific accommodations to students in your class. This means you can save time by assigning the same task to your whole class while ensuring you provide compliant, scaffolded experiences for your students.
   
   
   
   To learn more, refer to our article on Accommodations.  
4. - Available in Classic, Mastery Peak, Test, Team, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes
   
   
   With this feature, you can assign differentiated versions of the same Assessment/Quiz with different difficulty levels and fewer questions for easy, medium, and hard versions — with just a few clicks! It's a great way to ensure every student gets the right level of challenge. 
   To learn more, refer to our article on Differentiated Versions. 

Question & answer settings

1. - Available in Classic, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   This setting allows you to control the number of times your students can attempt a session. You can choose between one, two, three, and unlimited attempts.
   
   Note: Limiting the number of attempts will require your students to log into their Quizizz accounts in order to participate in the session. 
   
   
2. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, Mastery Peak, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   This setting controls the feedback that students see right after answering a question. You can choose whether they get immediate feedback on whether their answer is correct or incorrect and whether or not to show them all the questions with their correct answers at the end of the session.
   
   
   If this setting is turned OFF, your students will not be able to see the correct answer after each question they attempt, nor will they know if they got the answer right immediately after attempting the question. Note that the OFF option is not available in Mastery Peak mode. 
   
   If you select Validate only, your students will get feedback on whether or not they got a question correct, but they will not be shown the correct answer if they answered incorrectly. 
   
   If you select ON, students can see whether they answered the question correctly or incorrectly, along with the correct answer.
3. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   The 'Show answers during session' setting controls the display of the review section for students at the end of the session.
   
   
   
   Turn this ON to allow your students to review the questions and their correct answers.
   
   Select Questions only to enable your students to see only the questions and their answer options. They will not be able to see the correct/ incorrect answers. 
   
   If this is turned OFF, students won't be able to review the questions or answers after the quiz.
4. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, Mastery Peak, and Homework mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   If this setting is turned ON, each of your students will see their Assessment/Quiz questions in a different order. This makes it difficult for students to "get help" from each other (ergo, no cheating).
   
   
   
   Turn this OFF if you want the questions to appear in the original order for everyone.
5. - Available in all session modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   With this setting enabled, the answer options will be shuffled for each question. That is, each student will see a different order of answer options on their screen for a given question. 
   
   
   
   Turn this OFF if you want the answers to appear in the original order for everyone.
6. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, Instructor Paced, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   The Timer awards points to students on the basis of accuracy and speed.
   
   
   
   1. Default Timer: This option displays a visible countdown timer, but answers can be submitted even after the timer runs out. A score of 600 is awarded for answering a question correctly. An additional score of 0-400 is awarded based on how quickly students answer. Wrong answers are marked zero, regardless of the time taken to answer.
   2. Test Timer: This option displays a visible countdown timer, and answers cannot be submitted after the timer runs out. A question is 'timed out' if students exceed the time limit in answering a question. Timed-out questions are marked zero. A score of 600 is awarded for correct answers. 
   3. Timer Off: This option disables the timer. Students are awarded a score of 600 for the right answer and 0 for the wrong answer, regardless of their speed.
   
   Note: Incorrect answers and 'timed out' questions always get 0 points.
7. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   Students can skip difficult or lengthy questions during the session. These skipped questions are moved to the end of the session. Students can then revisit skipped questions after they've attempted all the other questions.
   
   
   
   Toggled this ON to let students skip questions and return to them later in the session. Toggle it OFF to have students answer questions in the order presented to them. 
   
   To learn more, refer to our article on Enabling Skip Questions.

Mastery & Learning settings

1. - Available in Classic, Team, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   

   With this option enabled, a session will include at least 1 incorrectly answered question, which will appear at the end. The number of Redemption Questions usually depends on the length of a session. A session that has more than 15 questions would have multiple Redemption Questions either at the end or in the middle of the session. 
   
   

   By default, Redemption Questions are enabled when you start a live session. You can disable them from the Mastery and Learning settings list.
   
   Also, if AI Answer Explanations are enabled for the session, you cannot activate Redemption Questions for that session.
   
   

2. - Available in Mastery Peak & Homework modes
   - Works with Works with Assessments/Quizzes
   
   You will see this setting if you have chosen the Mastery Peak mode for a live session or the Mastery & Learning mode for a homework session for an assessment. With this setting, you can set an accuracy goal for your classroom when you assign them a homework session. Students can then reattempt incorrectly answered questions multiple times until they reach this goal
   (view the following drop-down named 'Reattempts per question').
   
   
   
   You can choose between 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100% accuracy. Mastery Goal, combined with the 'Reattempts per question' setting, helps students to improve understanding and retention through spaced repetition and practice. his combination allows you to set both an overall accuracy goal and the number of reattempts permitted for questions that were answered incorrectly.
   
   Note that this setting will not work with the following settings: Redemption Questions, Adaptive Question Bank, Power-ups, Skip Questions & Attempt Later, Leaderboard
3. - Available in Mastery Peak & Homework modes
   - Works with Works with Assessments/Quizzes
   
   You will see this setting if you have chosen the Mastery Peak mode for a live session or the Mastery & Learning mode for a homework session for an Assessment/Quiz. Once you set the mastery goal (view the previous drop-down named 'Mastery Goal), you can set the number of attempts students can use to reattempt incorrectly answered questions multiple times until they reach this goal.
   
   
   
   The 'Reattempts per question' setting, combined with Mastery Goal, empowers students to improve understanding and retention through spaced repetition and practice. They help you to define both the overall accuracy goal as well as the number of reattempts allowed for incorrectly answered questions. 
4. - Available in Classic, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes
   
   
   The Adaptive Question Bank mode enables your students to see a unique combination of questions from your Assessment/Quiz every time they attempt the session. This reinforces their understanding of concepts through spaced repetition while preventing them from copying each other's answers. 
   
   
   
   When you enable this feature, you can choose how many questions you want your students to answer per Assessment/Quiz attempt. For instance, if your Assessment/Quiz has 30 questions, you can enable students to see only 8 questions in every attempt. This combination of 8 questions will be unique each time they attempt the Assessment/Quiz.
   
   To learn more, refer to our article on Adaptive Question Banks.

AI Assist for students

1. - Available in Classic and Homework modes; currently in beta and available as part of a free trial
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes
   
   
   Our new AI-powered Answer Explanations feature offers personalized step-by-step explanations to help students understand why they answered a question incorrectly and how to arrive at the correct answer.
   
   
   
   Toggle on this setting to help students understand concepts by providing tailored explanations for each incorrect response based on the corresponding Bloom's Taxonomy level. Click on 'View' to review the AI-generated answer explanations that will appear for your students.
   
   
   
   To learn more, refer to the article: AI-Powered Answer Explanations for Incorrect Answers

Video settings

1. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Interactive Videos
   
   
   
   
   When this setting is enabled, it ensures that students are unable to move forward or skip through the video content. 
2. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Interactive Videos
   
   
   
   With this setting enabled, students can adjust the playback speed of the videos to suit their learning pace. They can choose from a range of speeds, including 1.25x, 1.5x, or even 2 times the normal speed.
3. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, and Homework modes
   - Works with Interactive Videos
   
   
   
   When enabled, this feature lets students view videos with captions. However, note that this functionality is limited to YouTube videos that already include captions.

Gamification settings

1. - Available in Team Mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes & Interactive Videos
   
   
   
   
   This 'Team mode' setting lets you determine how many teams to create when starting a live session in Team Mode. 
2. Available in Classic mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   Strike and Shield is an exciting player-vs-player gameplay experience. This setting is ideal for boosting engagement and increasing participation in activities, infusing healthy competition while remaining focused on the task at hand, improving class accuracy, and transforming review and post-review activities.
   
   With Strike, a student can strike down the score of another student.
   
   
   
   With Shield, a student can protect their own score from being struck down.
   
   
   
   Strike and Shield is a session setting available only in the Classic mode for live Assessments/Quizzes & Interactive Videos.
   
   
   
   To learn more, read this article: Boost Engagement with Player-vs-Player Mode: Strike and Shiel
3. - Available in Classic, Team, Test, Instructor Paced, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, Interactive Videos, and Flashcards
   
   
   The Quizizz Name Factory generates creative names for your students to use when they join a session. It is designed to avoid wasted class time while also keeping things light and fun.
   
   
   
   To learn more, refer to our article: Name Factory. 
4. - Available in Classic, Team, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   On Quizizz, power-ups are bonuses that are sporadically applied to questions. They improve a student's chances of getting a higher score. For instance, the 2X power-up gives players twice the points for answering a question correctly.
   
   
   
   Power-ups affect session scores and may influence student ranking on the leaderboard. However, they do not impact their accuracy points. To learn more, refer to the article Power-Ups and Their Types.  
5. - Available in Classic mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   When enabled, this setting allows students to express themselves with fun images and stickers as they wait for a live session to begin.
   
   
   
   They can also do this at the end of the session on the student summary screen that displays their results. 
   
   
6. - Available in Classic and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   With this setting enabled, students will see a leaderboard after each question and see their rank during and after the session. 
   
   
   
   Disable this setting if you don't want students to see each others' scores/rank, or are not keen on making the session competitive.  
7. - Available in Classic, Team, and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   Toggle this setting to enable Quizizz music to be played on students' devices. The Quizizz music played from your device will be different from the music played on the students' devices.
   
   
   
   Note that this option is turned off by default.
8. - Available on Classic and Homework modes
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Passages, and Interactive Videos
   
   
   If this setting is enabled, students will see funny images (called memes) after each question. You can also create your own meme sets! To learn more, refer to the article Use Memes in Assessments/Quizzes.
   
   

Advanced features for Test Mode

These advanced settings are available for users with Quizizz School & District plans.

1. - Available in Test Mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Interactive videos, and Passages
   
   
   Enabling Review & Submit allows students to mark questions so they can return to review them at the end of the session. This will allow them to view and change their answers before submitting their questions.
   
   
   
   Learn more about Review & Submit here: Enable Review & Submit in Test Mode
2. - Available in Test Mode
   - Works with Assessments/Quizzes, Interactive videos, and Passages
   
   
   With Focus mode, you will be notified whenever a student tries to open another tab or switch to another tab on their device while participating in a session in Test Mode. When you enable Test Mode, students are required to participate in the session in full screen.
   
   
   
   If students quit the full screen to switch to or open another tab, they are warned and are dissuading them from cheating. You will be notified if students continue to switch tabs.
   
   Learn more about Focus Mode here: Start a Live Session in Focus Mode

Note: Settings for Paper Mode vary significantly from the settings for other session modes, and have not been covered in this article. To learn more about Paper Mode, click here. 

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