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Publishing and how people take it
A Quick Quiz → Settings → Publish to my public profile (or Publish to the project owner’s profile in a project someone else owns). Only an account owner or admin can publish; owners, admins and publishers can build the quiz. Once published, it can be shared by its link, found on the public profile, or sent to a contact from Thrive. Sending a quiz to a contact
Before it will publish
A quiz needs at least one question with its correct answer marked. If something is missing, the message says what — for example This quiz has no questions yet.
A quiz or course appears under Learn on the public profile of the person who owns the project — which is not always the person who presses Publish. Settings names whose profile that is.
Visitors can open it only while the project is public and not archived, and the project owner's public profile is switched on. So a published quiz is shown one of two ways:
| Live | Anyone with the link can take it. |
|---|---|
| Published, not reachable | Published, but nobody can open it yet. The quiz list and Settings say why — for example This project is not public — and it goes live by itself once that is fixed. Until then its link says This is not available, and it cannot be sent from Thrive. |
Settings warns you before you publish if the quiz would not be reachable. Choosing what is public
What visitors see
The public profile's Learn tab lists every published course and Quick Quiz, each marked Course or Quick Quiz with its size. A course opens on a summary: how many lessons and questions it has and the pass mark, with Start the course to read the lessons one at a time, Skip to the test, and every test it has, each named by its module. Visitors can take its tests in any order: Modules open in order applies to the people it is assigned to, in My learning. A Quick Quiz opens on a short page saying how many questions it has and the pass mark, with Take the quiz.
After finishing, a visitor sees their score, whether they passed, and which questions they got right. How you compare then shows how everyone else who took it from a public page scored, with the visitor's own band marked You, and where they stand in words, for example above two thirds of the people who have taken this. Nothing appears until at least five other people have taken it, so no one's score can be worked out from it. Nobody is named, and people on your team, who take it from My learning, are never counted with the public. The comparison can be switched off in Settings.
Settings
Change any of these, then press Save settings.
| Quiz name | What people see at the top of the quiz page and on the public profile. |
|---|---|
| Pass mark | The score needed to pass. 70% for a new quiz. |
| Attempts allowed | 3 for a new quiz. Leave it empty for unlimited. A limit also stops someone working out the answer key by taking the quiz again and again, changing one answer at a time. |
| Show the right answers afterwards | Off by default. On, everyone who takes the quiz sees the full answer key on their result page — which makes the key effectively public. Use it for teaching, not for assessment. |
| Ask for a name and email | On by default. It puts a name on the result and lets people find it again from another device. Off, the quiz is taken anonymously. Only an account owner or admin can change it, because it decides whether people's personal data is collected. |
| Show each person how everyone else did | On by default. A summary on each result page, shown only once at least five other people have taken the quiz. Results |
What a taker sees
The quiz page says how many questions there are, the pass mark and the attempts allowed. People press Take the quiz, give a name and email, press Start the test, answer, and press Submit my answers. An unanswered question counts as wrong. Nothing a taker is sent — the questions, the result page or the email — contains the answer key. The result page shows their score, whether they passed, and which questions they got right and wrong. When a name and email are asked for, the link to the result is also emailed to them, and it keeps working.
Coming back later
The same browser remembers them: the quiz page shows their result, with Take it again while they have attempts left. On another device they can enter their email under Taken this already? and press Email it to me. The reply on screen is the same whether or not that address has taken the quiz, so it cannot be used to find out who has.
Taking a quiz down
Take it down removes it from your public profile at once: nobody new can find or start it. People who already have a result keep it, and their result links keep working.
Archive this quiz takes it off your public profile and out of the list. Its questions and results are kept. A publisher can archive a quiz they created while nobody has taken it; once someone has, or for one someone else created, it takes an account owner or admin, and the button says so.
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