Interactive Lab assignment category
Updated 18 Sep 2025
This information applies to courses that include 
Interactive Lab assignments.
- Like other categories in a Mastering course, the Interactive Lab category is a set of default settings that new Interactive Labs assignments inherit.
- Use the Interactive Lab category to filter your view of a course Gradebook to show only these assignments.
- You can also weight this assignment category in the Gradebook.
Default settings for Interactive Lab category and assignments
- Allow students to take assignment up to x times and keep the best score —
The default for Interactive Labs is 1 assignment attempt. Consider changing the assignment attempts setting to 2 or more so students can keep their best score. You can change the number of attempts anytime, but after students start you can only increase assignment attempts. (You cannot reset Interactive Lab assignments.) - Penalize Late Submissions —
The default is no credit for late submissions. You can edit this setting to reduce credit by a certain % for each hour or day late. - Question attempts
The default is that students are graded by score. Select whether to grade students by a % score or % complete for their answers.