Especially during distance learning, it's inevitable that someone is going to need to take the test at another time. Fear not, this can be done in a few direct steps!
1) Ask quest (questhelp@austin.utexas.edu) to turn on the student grouping feature. This allows you to set and control start times for different (groups of) students as needed. We also highly recommend putting yourself in an early start group and stepping through the exam as a student well before any of your students see it. While improved machinery has been developed over the last year, it never hurts to see and experience exactly what your students will in order to catch and address any hiccups that surface.
2) Your roster page will now have a 'group' column. This can be used to set what group you want students to be in. You will have the opportunity on the exam to set different start times for the different groups.
3) To add more groups, navigate to the 'student groups' on the left side bar. Here you can manage what the options for groups are.
Add as many additional groups as you'd like. Notice that you can check how many students are in each group with the 'student count' column. After creating groups you may need to return to step 2 to put students in their respective groups.
4) On the test (learning module) when creating an assignment you will be given the opportunity to set the different group start times. You can adjust these later by going to the assignment and clicking 'edit settings'. To copy the date/time in the first line to call click the copy button.
5) If you've put yourself (and/or any TAs added as student guests in your class) in an early section, consider running through the published test as a student to test run it--https://quest.cns.utexas.edu/student/courses. If anything is off (not prompted for webcam, answer choices not showing up, images not rendering) please let Quest know as soon as possible so we may adequately troubleshoot the issue before it is released to your students. It is with this in mind that we strongly encourage all tests to be published at least 48 hours before your earliest student is to take it.