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source/educators/how-tos/set_up_course/require_entrance_exam.rst

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.. admonition:: Turn on the Entrance Exam feature
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In order for the Entrance Exam feature to work, it must be enabled on your Open edX instance.
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In order for the Entrance Exam feature to work, it must be enabled on your Open edX instance. It is not enabled by default.
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Please contact your site administrator to enable the `FEATURES['ENTRANCE_EXAMS'] <https://docs.openedx.org/projects/edx-platform/en/latest/references/featuretoggles.html#featuretoggle-FEATURES['ENTRANCE_EXAMS']>`_ flag.
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To require an entrance exam, follow these steps.
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#. On the **Schedule & Details** page, locate the **Requirements** section.
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#. Select the **Require students to pass an exam before accessing course
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materials** option.
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.. image:: /_images/educator_how_tos/require_entrance_exam.png
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:alt: The "Require students to pass an exam before accessing course materials" checkbox appears at the bottom of the "Requirements" section.
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#. In the **Grade Requirements** section, set the percentage score required to
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pass the exam (default is 50%).
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#. Select **Save Changes**.
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After you save your changes, Studio automatically creates an **Entrance Exam**
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section in your course outline. To add content to your entrance exam, go to the
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After changes are saved, Studio automatically creates an **Entrance Exam**
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section in the course outline. To add content to the entrance exam, go to the
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course outline.
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Create an Entrance Exam
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You create your course entrance exam from the course outline in Studio.
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Adding as Entrance Exam automatically places a new section called "Entrance
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Exam" at the top of the course outline.
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.. image:: /_images/educator_how_tos/entrance_exam_in_outline.png
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:alt: The "Entrance Exam" appears as a section at the top of the course outline, above all other course sections
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Creating entrance exam content is just like creating other course content. For
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more information, see the section on :ref:`Content Creation and Management <Content Creation and Management TOC>`.
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Adjust Scores in the Entrance Exam
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If you find an error in the exam after learners have taken it, and corrections
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to the exam are unavoidable, you have several options to rescore the exam for
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individual learners. These options are available on the instructor dashboard.
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If the exam is changed or corrected after learners take the exam, there are
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several options to rescore the exam for individual learners. These options are
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available on the instructor dashboard.
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In the LMS, select **Instructor** to access the instructor dashboard, and then
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select **Student Admin**. In the **Entrance Exam Grade Adjustment** section,
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the following options are available.
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* **Reset Student Attempts**: Reset the value for one particular learner's
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.. image:: /_images/educator_how_tos/entrance_exam_inst_dash.png
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:alt: The Entrance Exam Grade Adjust section of the Instructor Dashboard
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* **Attempts**: Reset the value for one particular learner's
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attempts back to zero so that the learner can begin work over again. For more
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information, see :ref:`reset_attempts`.
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* **Rescore Student Submission**: Rescore the responses that a learner has
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submitted. For more information, see :ref:`rescore`.
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* **Allow Skip**: Waive the requirement for the learner to take the exam.
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* **Delete Student State for Problem**: Delete a learner's entire history for
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the exam from the database. For more information, see :ref:`delete_state`.
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* **Rescore**: Rescore any responses that have been submitted. The 'Rescore All
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Problems Only If Score Improves' option updates the learner's scores only if
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it improves in the learner's favor. For more information, see :ref:`rescore`.
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Another option on the instructor dashboard is **Show Background Task History
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for Student**. If you reset learner attempts, rescore learner submissions, or
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delete learner state, the operation runs in the background. If you want to see
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a record of all the operations that have run for the entrance exam, select
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**Show Background Task History for Student**.
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* **Delete Learner's State**: Delete a learner's entire history for the exam
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from the database. For more information, see :ref:`delete_state`.
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Another option on the instructor dashboard is **Task Status**. If one of the
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above options are selected, the operation runs in the background. If you want to
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see a record of all the operations that have run for the entrance exam, select
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**Show Task Status**.
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.. seealso::
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| Review Date | Working Group Reviewer | Release |Test situation |
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| 2025-11-16 | sarina | Ulmo | Pass |
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| 03/11/2025 | Leira (Curricu.me) | Sumac | Fail (https://github.com/openedx/docs.openedx.org/issues/891) |
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| | | | (this simply hasn't been tested with the flag on) |
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