Assignment protection rules

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The assignment protection rules provide the possibility to disable specific editing actions for an assignment. After adding assignment labels to your school, you can add assignment protection rules to these labels. Assignment protection rules are only applicable to assignments that have labels. Therefore, assignment protection rules can only be used in assignments in your course and not in your question bank.

In the menu of assignment protection rules, you will see an overview of all assignment labels that you have created before. If you do not see any labels, first create assignment labels. Per assignment label, you can select one or more rules that are applicable to the assignments connected to the assignment label. You can use this feature to prevent assignments to be edited or partially edited in a particular stage of the development of the assignment. It can also be used to archive old assignments, so they cannot be edited any longer.

Assignment protection rules can be added to:

• Disable exercise and question changes
  This option prevents users to make changes to exercises and questions in an assignment. Users cannot add new exercises, questions and descriptions, or edit existing ones. 
• Disable grading scheme changes
  This option prevents users from modifying the grading scheme in an assignment. Users cannot edit the grading type, the maximum points, the model answer, the question options, the weight (only applicable to rubric with levels), and the criteria (only applicable to points per criterion). This also includes changes to the contribution of a question.
• Disable objective changes
  This option prevents users to make changes to learning objectives in an assignment. Users cannot link learning objectives to an exercise, or unlink them from an exercise.
• Disable review changes
  This option prevents users to make changes when reviewing assignments. This includes (un)reviewed results, creating and answering flags, and creating and answering annotations. The contribution of the questions can also not be adjusted in the Insights tab. 
• Disable mark calculation changes
  This option prevents users to make changes to the mark calculation formula. The page Mark calculation in the settings of the assignment is then locked and cannot be adjusted. 
• Disable result changes
  This option prevents users to make changes to the Results tab of the assignment. Results cannot be approved, (un)archived, removed, or put in groups. Additionally, once results are removed, they cannot be restored if this option is enabled. It is still possible to publish and export results.
• Disable discussion changes
  This option prevents users to make changes to the discussions of the assignment. Open and closed discussions cannot be answered or reopened by employees. Be aware that students can still start new discussions if the publication window allows this, but they cannot be responded to by staff. 
• Disable anonymising results
  This option is only visible if your school uses the feature Results retention period [Add-on]. This option prevents that results are anonymised after the set period. 

To add an assignment protection rule to an assignment label, follow the steps below.

After editing, you can see how many protection rules were selected for an assignment label.