#1 2009-09-14 18:24:48

**_bopyt_**

Close dates on a QUIZ in a CURRICULUM.

I have a user that is designing a curriculum that includes a pre-test (quiz) "course" object. 

We want the students to take the quiz by a certain date, after which we want the quiz to be closed. 

We tried setting a Close Date on the course object (the quiz), but it does not do the trick... the quiz is still open and available in the curriculum. 

We don't want to close the entire curriculum... the rest of the content needs to still be available, we just want to close the quiz.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks,
Barbara

**_quinn_**

Re: Close dates on a QUIZ in a CURRICULUM.

Setting a close date on the course object doesn't work because the properties are actually set and checked on the course link inside of the curriculum.   However, there is a trick using the XML APIs that allows you to do this on an individual item within the curriculum.  Here's what you do:

1. Find the sco-id of the course link in the curriculum.  You can do this by clicking on the course inside of the curriculum and getting the sco-id from the browser nav bar.
2. Using this sco-id, set the date-end using the sco-update XML API.   Here's an example:

https://{myconnectproserver}/api/xml?action=sco-update&sco-id=100&date-end=2009-09-29

This will set an end date on the individual item whose sco-id is 100.   The curriculum will still have its own end date.

The only caveat is that we do not display or allow management of end dates for individual items in the UI, so it could get pretty confusing.  Your training managers would have to be aware of what they did.

**_all.deepak_**

Re: Close dates on a QUIZ in a CURRICULUM.

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