Password Protection
- David Lau
OpenEdX does not currently offer built-in password protection, to lock an assessment from students accessing it until a password is entered. This makes it difficult to restrict access to students from submitting the assessment from off-campus (home). This workaround method is proposed to add password protection to an assessment.
Grading - Assignment Type
For each assessment that you wish to lock with a password, create a separate Assignment Type.
From the CMS, go to Settings → Grading.
Click the +New Assignment Type button.
Enter the Assignment Type Name (e.g.
Password Protection 1).Enter the Abbreviation (e.g.
PW1).For the Weight of Total Grade enter
10. While it might be possible to enter a weighting of zero, that has not been tested yet.Click the Save Changes button.
New Subsection
Create a Subsection only for the password entry.
Click the New Subsection button.
Name the Subsection (e.g.
Password Protection).Click the Configure button for the Subsection.
For the Grade as: drop-down, select the Assignment Type that was created previously (e.g. Password Protection 1).
Go to the ADVANCED tab.
Check Make this subsection available as a prerequisite to other content.
Click the Save button.
Set Prerequisite
Set the prerequisite for the assessment Subsection on which you would like to set a password lock.
Click the Configure button for the assessment Subsection.
Go to the ADVANCED tab.
Set the Prerequisite: drop-down to the name of the password entry Subsection (e.g. Password Protection).