Wayground Homework Mode: How to Assign a Quiz for Later

To set homework on Wayground (formerly Quizizz), open your quiz, choose Assign instead of a live session, set a deadline, and share the join code or link. Students complete it on their own time before the deadline, and you review the reports afterward. No one has to be online at the same time.

Homework mode is one of the biggest reasons teachers pick Wayground over live-only tools. Here’s how it works and when to use it.

What homework mode is

A homework (or assigned) session is a self-paced version of a quiz with a deadline attached. Instead of hosting a live game where everyone plays together, you assign the quiz and the join code stays active for the whole assignment window. Students join whenever they can, work through it at their own pace, and their results land in your reports automatically.

It’s the same quiz you’d host live, just delivered for independent work rather than a real-time activity.

How to assign homework on Wayground

1. Open the quiz you want to assign, from your library or a new one you built.
2. Choose “Assign” instead of starting a live session.
3. Set a deadline. The join code stays active for that whole period, so students aren’t locked to one moment.
4. Adjust the settings you want, like the number of attempts or whether answers show after each question.
5. Share the code or link with your class, or push it through Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology.
6. Review the reports as students finish, right up to the deadline.

That’s it. Once assigned, you don’t need to keep anything running yourself. If you also want to run live sessions, our how to host a game guide covers that side.

How students join homework

Students join a homework assignment the same way they’d join a game: with the code, or through a link you share. The difference is timing, since the code works right up to the deadline rather than only while a live game is running. The full student steps are in our how to join a game guide, and if a code isn’t working, our entering a code guide has the fixes.

Settings worth knowing

A few options make homework more useful:

• Deadline: how long the assignment stays open. Give students a realistic window.
• Attempts: whether students can retry, which suits practice more than a formal test.
• Answer feedback: show the correct answer after each question for practice, or hide it when it’s graded.
• Accuracy mode: set a mastery target students must reach, so homework becomes practice-until-you-get-it rather than one pass.

Homework vs a live session

The choice comes down to timing, not the quiz itself:

• Use homework for revision, catch-up, practice, or anything students should do on their own time.
• Use a live session when you want the whole class playing together in the room.

You can assign the same quiz either way, so it’s easy to reuse a good quiz as both a live game and later homework. For the full picture of every option, see how to use Wayground and the game modes guide.

Reports from homework

Because everything is tied to the assignment, you get the same detailed reports you’d get from a live game: who finished, what they scored, and which questions caused trouble. That per-student data is the real payoff of homework mode, since it tells you exactly what to reteach.

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