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The class exam date
Tell the platform when the exam is, and revision stops landing in the wrong week.
Set the date and the spacing takes care of itself.
What it is
Class exam date sits on the class page with a Save exam date button. Its hint is precise: it is used for the spaced-review crunch before this date, and a delivery exam date overrides it when scoped.
So there are two places a date can live. The class date is the default for that group; a delivery can carry its own for a narrower purpose. The delivery's wins where both apply.
What it changes
It only matters where a question type has a repetition schedule, and where that schedule is set to respect the exam date. Then three things happen.
- Intervals that would land too close to the exam are skipped or shortened, so revision stays useful rather than noisy.
- Quiet days before the exam keeps new memory checks out of the final stretch, avoiding a last-minute pile-up.
- Catch-up checks per session caps how many overdue checks a returning learner meets at once.
Without the date, spaced review simply follows the raw intervals. A check scheduled for 180 days after learning will duly appear the week after the exam, which is the one week it is worth nothing.
Setting it
Set it when you know it, and leave it blank when you do not — the class creation form says as much. Coming back to add it later works fine; the spacing recalculates from the schedule rather than being fixed at the moment a learner passed.
For a class with several exams, use the one that matters most for this subject, and put narrower dates on the deliveries that target the others.