Suppose you have an exam that has x number of questions and you actually have a passing grade and you give user 3 reset to pass the test. But you want to avoid user from keep just brute forcing their way through the exam by failing, resetting, failing, resetting right away. So what can you do? So here is something that we have added as an optional setting. So what you can do is you can go to advanced option for the exam, scroll down, and look for wait period between retake. So I'm just going to change this to say 30 days. What that means is if the user fail the exam, they cannot just take the exam right away. They cannot just retake the exam right away, instead they have to wait 30 days before try the second time. So let's see how that experience flows. So I'm going to switch over and I'm going to take the exam and purposely fail the exam. So this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to start the exam and instead of trying to answer 100 questions one by one, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to answer as administrator. And just randomly, and keep in mind the question has a 75% passing grade. So I'm just going to, as administrator, find the course I was doing, which is right here. And I'm just going to give myself, let's say a fail grade, so that we can demonstrate this wait mechanics. So we're just going to wait for the screen to load up. And I'm going to give myself a failing grade of 47%. So now I'm just going to switch over to the learner view to continue, submit the exam, knowing that I have failed. So I'm going to continue, and now I'm going to fail. There we go. Notice where it says that you must wait 30 days before you can retake the test. And notice that when I go back, I cannot really do anything. I failed, I cannot claim the credit, and I had to wait for 30 days in order for me to be able to take the test, retake the test again. And just so that we can see how that works, we're just going to quickly go to the exam and change, let me see. So let's just change the zero wait time, just so that we can quickly show what the user experience is going to look like. So obviously, zero day wait time is really, means no, oh, minimum is one. Okay, all right. So what we're going to do is we're going to play a trick in the back end, so that it's as if I have failed the test quite a few days ago, and see what the user sees. So I'm going to pause the video, do something in the back end, and come back. So now that I'm back, I have played a little bit of back end magic, so that the reset button lights up, and that is because I have pretended that I did the exam 30 days ago. So now that the 30 day wait period has passed for me, so I will be able to reset the exam and do the exam one more time. And then hopefully I will be able to pass the second time. So this is how you can go about forcing a delay in the middle of a reset, so the user cannot quickly run through the exam to get to a passing grade.

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