Release results
Exams are on the Pro plan.
Show results immediately decides whether a student sees their score the moment they submit.
Holding results back
Turn it off and scores stay hidden. Students see that their attempt was received, not what it earned.
This is the right default for anything that counts. It buys you the gap in which to notice that question 7 had the wrong option marked correct — before thirty students have seen a score based on it and formed an opinion about their grade.
It also stops the first students out of the room broadcasting the answers along with their scores.
Showing them immediately
Right for practice tests and low-stakes quizzes, where seeing the result while the question is fresh is most of the educational value.
The hiding is enforced on the server
Worth knowing, because it is what makes the setting trustworthy: when results are held back, the score and per-answer correctness are removed from the response entirely, not merely hidden by the page. A student who opens the browser's developer tools finds nothing, because nothing was sent.
The same holds for the answer key. Correct answers never reach the browser during an attempt — a question arrives carrying only what a student needs to answer it.
Releasing
Turn Show results immediately on, and scores become visible to students who return to the exam.
Before you do:
- Check attempt activity — is anyone still in progress?
- Look for a question with an implausible pass rate, which usually means a broken question rather than a broken cohort.
- Apply any grade corrections through the assessment.
Then release, and tell the class you have — students do not know to go back and look.
Changing a grade after releasing
Grades are editable at any time, but a student may already have seen the old number. If you correct a mark after release, say so and say why, rather than letting someone notice their score moved on its own.