With the Timer feature, Socrative Pro teachers can now set a time limit for their quizzes. This helps support fair assessments and can be used for formative, summative, or diagnostic quizzes.
Set Time Limits in Quizzes
Want your students to complete a quiz within a set amount of time? You can add a time limit when launching an activity if using the Instant Feedback or Open Navigation delivery settings. In Space Race, you can continue to set a countdown.
Select your quiz.
Click Launch.
Choose either Instant Feedback or Open Navigation delivery method.
Under Settings, enable Time limit.
Enter a time (note that the default is 15 minutes and the duration goes up to 120 minutes).
Start the activity.
💡A quiz's time limit can always be seen under the Delivery Settings of any Live Result or Report.
How Time Limits Work
The timer starts when a student joins into the activity.
Each student has their own timer.
When time runs out, the quiz will end automatically with a “time limit reached” message.
If a student is mid-response when the timer expires, their answer will not be submitted.
Teachers can pause the activity, which pauses all student timers.
After submission, hover over the timer icon beside a student's name in Live Results to view how long they took to complete the quiz. Show Timers toggle must be ON.
Timer Icons
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Student has completed the quiz.
Quiz has been paused by the teacher.
Active timer under 10% or 1 minute remaining, whichever comes first
Active timer at <25%
Timer expired.
Not started. |
What your Students See
If enabled, students will see a countdown timer during the quiz.
Students are notified when:
25% of time remains
Less than 10% remains or 1 minute is left (whichever comes first).
When time expires, their quiz is automatically submitted and closed and they will receive a message saying 'Time limit Reached'.
One-attempt vs. Multiple Attempts
Time limits behave differently depending on your launch settings:
If “One Attempt” is OFF:
The timer resets each time a student joins.
Students can retry with a fresh timer.
If “One Attempt” is ON:
The timer continues running, even if a student leaves.
This prevents students from restarting their quiz to gain extra time.
When to Use Time Limits
For Do Nows and other short form quizzes to keep responses quick and focused
Testing or Assessments where students need to answer in a set amount of time and pacing matters
For back-to-back classes to ensure quiz activities end on time
To reduce answer sharing between groups