What does a padlock symbol mean in my gradebook?
This happens when you didn’t submit your last attempt before the due date. Remember that whenever you click on the quiz, you are starting a new attempt. If you see the padlock symbol before the due date, in general you should be able to resume and submit it (in some special cases you may not be able to resume it, see next question). To resume the quiz, just go to ‘weekly quiz’ section and click the quiz as you usually do. If you see the padlock symbol after the due date, the solution becomes complicated. For quiz #1, you can email us if you have a good excuse. We might manually remove the locked attempts for you. For the rest quizzes, do not emails us, because we shall remove all the locked attempts with a program at the end of semester (due to technical probelm, we are not able to do this for quiz #1). When the locked (i.e. unsubmitted) attempts are removed, the mark of your last submitted attempt will be counted towards your grade.[back to top] • Q: What to do if you find you attempt