Assign a deck as homework and let people work at their own pace

A deck built for a live session usually has a second life. The three students who missed the lesson want it. The two people who joined the all-hands late want the quiz. Somebody asks whether they can do it on the train.

Self-paced mode covers that. Turn it on and the deck gets a link that works without a host: whoever opens it advances through the slides themselves, answers at their own speed, and finishes whenever they finish. Results land in the same place a live session's results land.

How it differs from a live session

There is no lobby, because nobody is waiting for anyone. The run starts the moment they open the link.

There is no leaderboard. A leaderboard of one person reads "#1 of 1", which is true and useless. Scored questions still score, and the student sees their own total and which answers were right.

The person taking it drives. In a live session the host advances the slides; here the Continue button belongs to the participant, and the deck closes each question as they answer it.

Controlling who can open it

By default, anyone with the link can. That suits a public quiz or a self-check you are happy to hand around.

For anything graded, add email addresses to the allowlist in the deck's settings. Only those addresses can open the assignment, and they sign in to prove it. Once the list has names on it, a button appears to email the link to everybody on it at once. That send is manual and stays manual, so editing a deck never fires mail at a class by accident.

Where the results go

The host sees an assignment results view listing everyone who has completed the deck, their score, and their per-question answers, building up as people finish rather than arriving in one batch.

Students get their own record too. A completed assignment appears in their history with the score and the deck title, so the run is visible to the person who did it rather than only to whoever set it.

What it does not do

There is no deadline field, no automatic reminder, and no partial-completion tracking. Somebody who abandons halfway leaves no trace beyond the answers they submitted.

Those were deliberate omissions rather than oversights. Deadlines pull in timezones, extensions and late policies, which is a gradebook, and a gradebook is a different product. The link plus the allowlist covers the case most people described: send the deck out, see who did it, see how they went.

Find it in deck settings under "Sharing", as "Assign as homework".