Practice Mode
Once the due date has passed, you can keep working on an eligible course exercise in practice mode. Practice submissions are never graded and never change your course score — they exist so you can finish a task you did not manage in time, try a different approach, or prepare for an exam.
Practice mode runs in a separate participation from your graded one. Your graded submission and its result stay untouched, and you can switch back and forth between the two at any time.
Where Practice Mode Is Available
| Exercise type | Practice mode |
|---|---|
| Programming | Yes |
| Quiz | Yes |
| Text | Yes, where your Artemis instance runs the Athena service and you have agreed to use AI |
| Modeling | Yes, where your Artemis instance runs the Athena service and you have agreed to use AI |
| File Upload | No |
Two further limits apply everywhere:
- Practice mode is available for course exercises only, never inside an exam.
- It is not available for team exercises.
Starting a Practice Participation
Open the exercise after its due date and click Start practice in the exercise header.
For a programming exercise, Artemis explains what practice mode does before it creates anything; confirm with Practice.
Artemis then sets up a second repository for you. If you already have a graded participation, the confirmation lets you choose what that repository starts from:
- Practice with template repository — start over from the exercise's starter code.
- Practice with graded participation — continue from the code you submitted before the deadline.
You work in the practice repository exactly as in the graded one: in the online editor or in your own IDE, and every push triggers a build with full feedback.
Every other supported type starts practicing right away, without that confirmation. For a quiz, Start practice opens the quiz again with the same questions: you answer and submit as usual and get your result immediately, unrated. For a text or modeling exercise, the practice participation is created as soon as you click, and the header switches to it.
Switching Between Graded and Practice
When you have both a graded and a practice participation, the exercise header shows a toggle. Select a mode to see that participation's submission, result and feedback.
Once you have started practice, the toggle stays available even if you never submitted the graded attempt, so you can still open the graded view and see what you missed. The read-only badge appears the other way around: a graded submission with no practice participation shows the mode as a badge instead of a toggle. Before you have submitted anything, neither is shown — there is nothing to switch between yet.
AI Feedback in Practice Mode
Where your instructor has enabled AI feedback, you can request it on a practice submission with Request AI feedback. The feedback appears like a normal result but is marked as automatic and is not graded. If the exercise does not offer it, the action is not shown.
This works for text and modeling exercises, and for programming exercises only where your instructor has set the assessment to semi-automatic — a purely automatically assessed programming exercise does not offer the action, and the request is refused if it is sent anyway. For text and modeling it is the same Athena service that makes practice mode possible there in the first place, but the course setting is checked only here, when you actually request feedback.
What Practice Mode Does Not Do
- It does not change your score. Results from practice submissions are unrated and excluded from the course score and from statistics.
- It does not extend the deadline. Your graded submission remains the one that was in place at the due date.
- It does not replace your graded participation. Switch back to Graded in the header to see what was assessed.