"Maximum number of submissions" option for exams

[christianp]

Several people have asked for the option to limit the number of times students can submit answers to individual parts.

Each part should show the number of submissions remaining, and be locked after they've all been used.

I'm not personally in favour of this - we'll get lots of emails from students saying they accidentally submitted, for one - but people keep asking for it.

[johnny-yisj]

Hi Christian, I am the one who emailed you like 24 hours ago. I am not actually sure how the fact that students often accidentally ending the exam and the idea of making them have only n number of trials conflict with each other though.

[christianp]

My views on this have hardened even further: I don't think it's right to limit the number of submissions, and we shouldn't give this tool to authors who haven't thought through the consequences.