Lesson overrides
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User and group overrides allow teachers to change lesson settings for specific students or groups — for example, extending a deadline or allowing a student an extra attempt.
Accessing overrides
From the lesson page, go to More > Overrides.
From here you can add and manage user overrides and group overrides separately.
Adding an override
- Click Add user override or Add group override.
- Select the user or group.
- Enable and set only the fields you wish to override — leave others blank to keep the lesson defaults.
- Click Save.
Fields
- Password protected lesson
- Override the password students must enter to access the lesson.
- Available from
- The date before which the student cannot access the lesson.
- Deadline
- The date after which the lesson closes.
- Time limit
- How long the student has to complete the lesson.
- Provide option to try a question again
- Whether students are offered a retry button after an incorrect answer.
- Maximum number of tries per question
- How many attempts a student gets at each question.
- Allow multiple attempts
- Whether the student may attempt the lesson more than once.
- Reason for override New feature
in Moodle 5.2!
- An optional note explaining why this override was granted (e.g. disability accommodation, medical extension). Visible to teachers in the override list.
Precedence
If a student belongs to more than one group that has an override, the most lenient value applies: the earliest available-from date and the latest deadline.
A user override always takes precedence over any group overrides.
