Why won’t an Apex Learning answer key match your quiz?
Because Apex builds each attempt from a pool. Its academic-integrity guide lists three ways it randomizes computer-scored assessments:
- Different questions. “Questions are randomly selected from question banks for each learning objective.”
- A different order. “The order of questions is randomized within each assessment.”
- Shuffled choices. “Answer options are randomized within each question.” A list that says “question 3: B” points at a letter that has moved.
Retakes follow the same rule. So a page titled “Apex Learning geometry answer key” or “Apex English 12 answers” was made from someone else’s attempt. That conclusion is ours, but it follows from how Apex describes its question banks.
Apex also treats those pages as a problem. Its guide calls question-and-answer sites “a significant threat to academic integrity” and says that, because all Apex content is copyrighted, posting course content on the internet is “a clear violation of the Apex Learning Terms of Use.” It tells schools that Apex support “can facilitate its removal from external web sites.”
What does Apex Learning show you after you answer?
That depends on how your teacher set up the course. The academic-integrity guide describes the settings that decide whether you ever see a correct answer from Apex itself:
| Setting | What it controls | What Apex says |
|---|---|---|
| Question Feedback | Feedback after each answer on a computer-scored assessment | “Feedback informs the student if the submitted answer is correct or incorrect. When the answer is incorrect, the feedback may provide additional prompts for answering the question or display the correct answer.” Teachers can choose “Do Not Show Question Feedback to prevent students from being shown the correct answers during a computer-scored quiz.” |
| Answer Review | Looking back at a finished computer-scored assessment | Suppress Answer Review “is used to prevent student review of completed computer scored assessments including each question and answer option and if the submitted answer is correct or incorrect.” |
| Closed-book assessments | Course content during a test | They “prevent students from accessing course content while a computer-scored assessment is in progress.” |
| Course Review | Going back into a finished course | “Do Not Allow Course Review to prevent students from accessing and/or sharing access with other students to completed courses.” |
So if your course shows feedback, the correct answer to your own question may appear after a miss. If it doesn’t, Apex is working the way your teacher set it up, and your teacher is the person to ask.
Do Apex teachers have an answer key?
We found no Apex Learning or Edmentum page that describes a printable answer key for students or teachers, so we make no claim about one. What Apex does describe is a teacher view of your actual answers. Its Data and Reporting Guide says teachers can review “a student’s performance on each computer-scored assessment, how many attempts were made, and how long it took the student to complete that activity,” and that “teachers can review each student’s answer on a particular assessment item.”
Teachers also hold the locks. The academic-integrity guide tells schools to “Limit Assessment Attempts to prevent students from attempting to preview all assessment items in the question bank,” to set a policy on “the maximum number of teacher resets,” and to proctor tests so students can’t open them “until they are unlocked and supervised by a teacher or mentor.” Teacher-scored tests can be printed and collected.
What does Apex Learning record?
Sessions, time and every scored answer. From Apex’s two guides:
| What is recorded | What Apex says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sessions | The Student Session Report shows “when students have accessed Apex Learning Courses, how much time students have spent in course content, and activities students have viewed.” | Data and Reporting Guide |
| Time by day and activity | The Weekly Activity Report shows “time spent on assessments and instruction in the course each day of the week as well as a detailed history of time spent on individual activities.” | Data and Reporting Guide |
| Answers and attempts | Attempts, time to complete, and “each student’s answer on a particular assessment item.” | Data and Reporting Guide |
| Sign-ins | “Students may not sign in to more than one computer at a time.” | Academic-integrity guide |
The academic-integrity guide also lists patterns it tells schools to look into, among them “Unusually short assessment durations,” “Low scores on first and second attempts combined with high scores on a subsequent attempt,” a “Sudden increase in scores” and “Score entries by unexpected users.” Parents can see the same kind of picture: Apex’s Weekly Progress Report can go to a parent or other adult “without being required to have an Apex Learning user account.”
How can you get honest help with Apex Learning?
- Do the lesson activities before the quiz. Closed-book settings can shut course content while a computer-scored assessment is open, so the reading has to come first.
- Read the feedback when your course shows it. After a miss it may give a prompt or the correct answer for your own question, which beats a list made from someone else’s attempt.
- Use Answer Review if your teacher leaves it on, to see which questions you missed on a finished quiz.
- Ask before you use up attempts. Apex tells schools to limit attempts and set a reset policy, so ask your teacher or mentor how many resets you get.
- Talk to your teacher about anything locked. Proctored tests open only when a teacher or mentor unlocks them.
For pacing, grades and locked tests, see our Apex Learning tips and tricks.
Where Silent Student fits
We make Silent Student, a desktop app for Mac and Windows from El Dorado Ignition LLC. It has no Apex Learning answer key and doesn’t make one. It does have a solver written for the Apex Learning player: in Apex mode it signs in through your school’s portal, reads each question on screen, picks among Apex’s choices on multiple-choice and multi-select quizzes and computer-scored tests, and presses Apex’s Submit itself.
- Its work is recorded the same way yours is. Sessions, time, attempts and answers all land in Apex’s reports under your name, and it does not hide or change any of them.
- It never unlocks, resets or skips an activity, and it stops at the first locked or failed one. It does not write free-response work or take proctored tests.
- It is built mainly for college Canvas courses. Apex Courses serve grades 6 to 12, and Silent Student accounts are for ages 13 and up. Its answers can be wrong, and where your course hides feedback it can’t see right or wrong either.
- We have published no Apex run, so we publish no Apex accuracy figure. Plans are $11.99, $24.99 or $49.99 a month, with no free plan.
Apex’s rules. Apex’s academic-integrity guide says students must accept the student code of conduct on first sign-in. The Apex Student Code of Conduct (Edmentum, March 11, 2024) says: “you agree not to use any automated means, including, without limitation, agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access, monitor, or copy any part of the content.” It also says “All work submitted by a student is assumed to have been completed by that student,” and that breaking the code “may result in revoked access as well as consequences determined by your school or district administrators.” In our reading, the automated-means clause reaches Silent Student. We are not lawyers, so read it yourself. Your school’s policy applies too, and under Silent Student’s Terms (section 5) you are responsible for both.
More: Silent Student on Apex Learning and Edgenuity vs Apex Learning.
Questions people ask
Is there an Apex Learning answer key PDF?
Not one that matches your quiz. Apex says its computer-scored assessments are designed so that no two students take the same assessment, with questions drawn at random from question banks and answer options shuffled within each question. A PDF made from another student’s attempt was made from different questions.
Does Apex Learning show you the right answer if you get it wrong?
Sometimes. Apex says question feedback tells you whether an answer is correct, and when it is wrong it “may provide additional prompts for answering the question or display the correct answer.” Your teacher can turn that feedback off.
Are Apex Learning retakes the same questions?
No, by Apex’s account. Its academic-integrity guide says computer-scored assessments are designed so that “any retakes are original to the student.”
Can Apex teachers see your answers?
Yes. Apex’s Data and Reporting Guide says “teachers can review each student’s answer on a particular assessment item,” along with how many attempts you made and how long the activity took.
Is it against Apex’s rules to post Apex answers online?
Yes, by Apex’s account. Its academic-integrity guide says all Apex Learning content is copyrighted and that posting course content on the internet is “a clear violation of the Apex Learning Terms of Use.”
Does Silent Student give you Apex Learning answers?
No. It has no Apex answer key. Its Apex solver reads each question in your own Apex session, picks an answer and submits it in your account, where Apex records it as yours. The Apex Student Code of Conduct bars automated agents, so read it first.
Sources
All fetched and checked October 20, 2026.
- Best Practices: Promoting Academic Integrity (Apex Learning, PDF, September 16, 2024)
- Data and Reporting Guide: Courses (Apex Learning, PDF, 2020)
- Apex Student Code of Conduct (Edmentum, PDF, March 11, 2024)
- Apex Courses (Edmentum product page)
How this guide was made. We read each document listed above on October 20, 2026 and quote them directly. The point that an outside answer list won’t match your quiz is our inference from what Apex says about its question banks. We found no Apex page that describes a teacher answer key, so we make no claim about one. We wrote the guide with AI assistance and checked each quote against its source.
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