Chapter locking

This page explains what chapter locking is and how to enable it. If you are looking for a way to set chapter deadlines that apply to all students, see Editing chapter and chapter cards

What is chapter locking

• Requires students to lock the current chapter, before they can submit exercise answers to the following chapters.
• After a student locks a chapter, they cannot submit exercise answers to the chapter any more.
• As a teacher, you can select which exercises you want to grade manually. For example, the last exercise of each chapter.

When to use chapter locking, examples

• You want students to submit exercise answers that build iteratively towards a larger work. You want to show a summative example solution at the end of the chapter and do not want the students submit any further answers to the chapter after they have viewed the example solution.

How to turn chapter locking on

1. Edit the last page of each chapter: Pages tab -> Edit (If you are unsure how editing pages works, read more on the edit lesson pages wiki page.
2. At the end of the page, add block called Lock Chapter.
3. Inside the Lock chapter block, you can add content that will be shown to students after they lock the chapter. For example, you can add a model solution, explanation, further reading / resources, congratulations message.
4. Save page
5. Repeat steps for the last page of each chapter.

Exercises - how turn on manual grading

For each exercise that you want to manually review, remember to mark the checkbox Teacher reviews answer after locking.

Troubleshoot

Issue: Just turned on chapter locking and now I cannot answer the exercises as a teacher

• Solution:

1. Open hamburger menu in the top right corner.
2. Select 'course settings'
3. Save the dialog.