Overview:

Course teams with summative assessments want to hide individual assessment results until after the due date, but still show the learner’s overall score for the subsection once the due date has passed.

Problem

• For teams that reuse questions across course runs, revealing question-level results can lead to answer sharing.

• At the same time, withholding the overall score indefinitely prevents learners from understanding their progress and final performance in a subsection.

Currently, the Assessment Results Visibility setting in edX offers three options:

Open

1. Always show assessment results – Learners see if answers are correct/incorrect and the score immediately.

2. Never show assessment results – Learners never see if answers are correct/incorrect or the score.

3. Show assessment results when the subsection is past due – Learners see full results after the due date.

The "Never show assessment results" option is used by some course teams to prevent data leaks (e.g., learners answering questions and checking the progress page to see if their score improved).

However, some course teams want to hide individual assessment results until after the due date, but still show the learner’s overall score for the subsection once the due date has passed.

Current Behavior:

• Selecting "Never show assessment results" hides both individual question results and the overall score indefinitely.

• There is no way to reveal only the overall score after the due date while keeping question-level details hidden.

Solution:

Add a fourth option to Assessment Results Visibility:

Never show individual assessment results, but show overall assessment results after due date
Learners do not see question-level correctness or scores before or after the due date. However, once the due date passes, they can see their overall score for the subsection on the Progress page.

Benefits:

• Maintains question-level security for courses reusing assessments.

• Gives learners transparency on their overall performance after deadlines.

• Matches a common real-world assessment model: students get their test grade (e.g., “92%”) without receiving the marked test back.

• Does not affect existing courses that rely on the current “Never” behavior.