An assessment is open from the moment you create it and stays open until you close it or a deadline passes. Both are reversible.
Set or change a deadline
Set one when you create the assessment, or afterwards from the Assessments list — Edit deadline on the assessment's row.
The deadline runs to the end of the day you choose: set the 20th and people can still finish on the 20th.
Leave the field empty and save to remove the deadline entirely.
You can extend, shorten or remove a deadline at any time, including after it has already passed — though see the warning below about what happens in the meantime.
What happens when a deadline passes
The assessment closes. The link and the code stop working, and anyone opening them sees that it is closed, with the deadline date.
There is no grace period. Somebody part-way through when the deadline passes is cut off, and their unfinished responses stay unfinished. If people are still working, extend the deadline before it passes rather than after.
Close an assessment early
Use Close assessment on the row. The confirmation tells you the real cost before you commit — either how many people are part-way through and will lose access immediately, or that nobody is interrupted.
Closing stops the link and the code working. Completed responses are not affected in any way.
Reopen it
Reopen on a closed assessment. Two things to know:
- A new deadline is required. You cannot reopen an assessment without setting one — it will not simply return to being open-ended.
- You can optionally issue a new access code. This is the only way to get a new code. If you do, the old code stops working, so anything already printed or shared becomes useless.
Deleting and restoring
Move to trash removes an assessment from your list. Despite what the confirmation dialog says, this is reversible — trashed assessments go to Deleted Assessments, reachable from the Assessments page, and can be restored.
Responses are untouched by trashing and come back intact on restore. A restored assessment works out its own state from its deadline: past deadline, it comes back closed; future deadline, it comes back open.
Permanent deletion is administrator-only and requires typing the access code to confirm. That one really cannot be undone.
Related
- Creating an assessment
- Troubleshooting access — when somebody says the code does not work