Time-locked question
The question itself is visible only for a few seconds.
In which year did Darwin publish On the Origin of Species?
- Category
- Memory and recall. Shown, hidden, asked.
- The student gives
- One option
- Marked
- By rule, at once
- The prompt carries
- Text, and anything you add
- In the builder
- Now.
- Allow going back to change an answerThe template has no going back.
- Allow skipping a questionThe sequence is fixed.
- Negative markingThe template has no skipping, so no blank can be left.
About time-locked question.
Why this shape
The question itself is visible for a few seconds only: reading under time, as in an exam hall or a cockpit.
An example. The question shows for eight seconds. Answer it.
What it is
Memory questions show something, hide it, and then ask. A list, a passage, an image or a sequence appears for a counted number of seconds, and the question comes when it has gone.
Why it is needed
Retention over a delay is what learning is. A question asked while the material is still on the screen tests reading; the same question asked after it has gone tests what the student holds. Memory shapes turn the quiz into the drill that the research on retrieval practice recommends: recall, not recognition.
When to use it
Use them for vocabulary, sequences, facts that must be held without notes, and for study drills where the student wants to know what they truly remember. Use short reveals for span and detail, longer ones for a passage.
How to write one well
Set the reveal time to the size of what is shown: a few seconds for a short list, longer for a passage. Ask one thing about what was shown. Tell the student before the reveal what they will be asked, or keep it a surprise on purpose, and be consistent within a quiz.
For time-locked question in particular. Keep the question short; the limit is the test.
Mistakes to avoid
A reveal too short to read. A question about a detail the student could not have known mattered. Several questions about one reveal without saying so. Using memory shapes for material the student is allowed to look up.
How EdProcto marks it
EdProcto hides the reveal on the student's screen when the count ends and marks the answer by rule against the accepted list, or by a reader for open answers. The reveal and its seconds are set per question.
Questions.
- How does a student answer a time-locked question question?
- One option. The question itself is visible only for a few seconds.
- How is time-locked question marked?
- By rule, the moment the answer is given: the mark needs no reader.
- Can Procto AI write time-locked question questions?
- Yes: from a chapter, notes or a handout, in this shape, at the level of thinking you set, written from your material only if you say so.