Start a quiz attempt

The quiz's password, attempt limit, delay between attempts and opening times apply as they do in the quiz player.

Quire permissions

Required capability: quiz/attempt.

Credential scopes: me:write.

The acting subject must also be allowed to perform this action in the organisation.

POST

https://your-organisation.quirelms.com/api/v1/me/quiz_attempts

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Authorisation

apiKeyoptionalHTTP
oauth2optionalOAuth 2.0

Header parameters

Quire-Versionoptionalstring
The dated API revision to serve this request at. Omitted, the request is served at the revision the credential was issued against. The response echoes the revision actually applied.

format: date
Idempotency-Keyoptionalstring
A caller-chosen key making this request safe to retry. A replay of a completed request returns the recorded response with Idempotency-Replayed: true. Reusing a key for a different request is refused.

maxLength: 255

Request bodyJSONrequired

activity_idstringrequired
The quiz activity.

format: uuid, pattern: ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$
passwordoptionalstring
maxLength: 1024

Returns

201

Success.

JSON

idstringrequired
quiz_idstringrequired
activity_idstringrequired
attempt_numberintegerrequired
maximum: 9007199254740991, minimum: -9007199254740991
statestringrequired
time_startstringrequired
time_duestring | nullrequired
time_finishstring | nullrequired
sum_marksnumber | nullrequired

401

The credential is missing, malformed, expired or revoked.

JSON

typestringrequired
format: uri
titlestringrequired
statusintegerrequired
codestringrequired
categoryvalidationorauthenticationorauthorizationornot_foundorconflictorprecondition+4 morerequired
detailstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
docs_urlstringrequired
format: uri
errorsoptionalarray ofobject
3 properties
- pathstringrequired
  RFC 6901 JSON Pointer into the request body.
- codestringrequired
- detailstringrequired
retry_afteroptionalinteger | null

403

The credential lacks the scope this operation requires, or the acting subject lacks the capability.

JSON

typestringrequired
format: uri
titlestringrequired
statusintegerrequired
codestringrequired
categoryvalidationorauthenticationorauthorizationornot_foundorconflictorprecondition+4 morerequired
detailstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
docs_urlstringrequired
format: uri
errorsoptionalarray ofobject
3 properties
- pathstringrequired
  RFC 6901 JSON Pointer into the request body.
- codestringrequired
- detailstringrequired
retry_afteroptionalinteger | null

409

The request conflicts with the current state, with a previous use of the same idempotency key, or with a concurrent write.

JSON

typestringrequired
format: uri
titlestringrequired
statusintegerrequired
codestringrequired
categoryvalidationorauthenticationorauthorizationornot_foundorconflictorprecondition+4 morerequired
detailstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
docs_urlstringrequired
format: uri
errorsoptionalarray ofobject
3 properties
- pathstringrequired
  RFC 6901 JSON Pointer into the request body.
- codestringrequired
- detailstringrequired
retry_afteroptionalinteger | null

422

The request was understood and its content is not valid. errors names each field.

JSON

typestringrequired
format: uri
titlestringrequired
statusintegerrequired
codestringrequired
categoryvalidationorauthenticationorauthorizationornot_foundorconflictorprecondition+4 morerequired
detailstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
docs_urlstringrequired
format: uri
errorsoptionalarray ofobject
3 properties
- pathstringrequired
  RFC 6901 JSON Pointer into the request body.
- codestringrequired
- detailstringrequired
retry_afteroptionalinteger | null

429

A rate limit or a concurrency cap was reached. Retry-After says when to try again.

JSON

typestringrequired
format: uri
titlestringrequired
statusintegerrequired
codestringrequired
categoryvalidationorauthenticationorauthorizationornot_foundorconflictorprecondition+4 morerequired
detailstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
docs_urlstringrequired
format: uri
errorsoptionalarray ofobject
3 properties
- pathstringrequired
  RFC 6901 JSON Pointer into the request body.
- codestringrequired
- detailstringrequired
retry_afteroptionalinteger | null

500

Something failed at our end. Quote request_id when reporting it.

JSON

typestringrequired
format: uri
titlestringrequired
statusintegerrequired
codestringrequired
categoryvalidationorauthenticationorauthorizationornot_foundorconflictorprecondition+4 morerequired
detailstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
docs_urlstringrequired
format: uri
errorsoptionalarray ofobject
3 properties
- pathstringrequired
  RFC 6901 JSON Pointer into the request body.
- codestringrequired
- detailstringrequired
retry_afteroptionalinteger | null

curl --request POST \ --url https://your-organisation.quirelms.com/api/v1/me/quiz_attempts \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data ' { "activity_id": "98dae057-958f-4b2f-9ed4-41f109afdc3f", "password": "string" } '

{ "id": "string", "quiz_id": "string", "activity_id": "string", "attempt_number": -9007199254740991, "state": "string", "time_start": "string", "time_due": "string", "time_finish": "string", "sum_marks": 0 }

{ "type": "http://example.com", "title": "string", "status": 0, "code": "string", "category": "validation", "detail": "string", "request_id": "string", "errors": [ { "path": "string", "code": "string", "detail": "string" } ], "retry_after": 0, "docs_url": "http://example.com" }