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Norton InQuizitive · adaptive quizzingNorton InQuizitive: what Silent Student does in an activity
InQuizitive is W. W. Norton’s adaptive quizzing tool, often assigned before class. Silent Student, a Mac and Windows desktop app from $11.99 a month, opens an InQuizitive activity from your Canvas course and answers its questions one at a time, reading Norton’s feedback after each.
Does Silent Student work on Norton InQuizitive?
Yes, with limits. Silent Student, a Mac and Windows app from $11.99 a month, opens an InQuizitive activity from your Canvas course and answers the questions one at a time, including drag-to-blank items through their keyboard dropdowns. It runs on a general vision agent with no InQuizitive-specific solver, so check the Current Grade box before the Grades Accepted Until date.
| What it works | InQuizitive activities opened from Canvas: multiple choice, word-bank and drag-to-blank items, and ordering questions. |
|---|---|
| How grading works | Answer your instructor’s minimum number of questions to get a grade, then reach the Target Score for 100%. Norton help |
| How it knows it finished | It has no InQuizitive-specific check. The run log lists what it answered; the Current Grade box is the real answer. |
| What it doesn’t do | Image-hotspot and typed-answer questions are untested. It cannot undo a wrong answer. |
| Plan | Covered by Base ($11.99/mo), Plus ($24.99/mo) and Pro ($49.99/mo). Pricing |
| Last checked | October 20, 2026 |
How is InQuizitive graded?
By points toward a Target Score your instructor sets. Norton’s student help says you must first answer a minimum number of questions to get any grade. After that, “Your grade is simply the percentage of the Target Score points you’ve accumulated,” so 500 of 1,000 points is 50%. “InQuizitive never stops you from continuing to answer questions,” so you can keep going until you reach 100%.
Source: W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, How Grading Works, checked October 20, 2026.
How does the InQuizitive confidence slider work?
It sets what a question is worth, from 20 to 100 points. Answer right and you gain that many; answer wrong and you lose them. Norton says a correct second attempt wins back half of the lost points, and some question types allow “second chance points” on later attempts. Five right in a row earns a bonus of 5% of the Target Score, and once you reach Level 2 or 3 your total never falls below that level’s threshold.
Sources: W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, How Grading Works; W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, Visual Guide: How to Use InQuizitive Activity, checked October 20, 2026.
Is there an InQuizitive answer key?
No. Norton says “There is no ‘I give up’ or ‘Show me the answer’ button in InQuizitive,” and each question gives feedback “after every click, drag/drop, or keystroke.” InQuizitive also serves more questions on topics you miss, so there is no fixed key to look up. Silent Student answers the questions on your screen; it does not supply an answer key.
Sources: W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, How Grading Works; W. W. Norton, InQuizitive, checked October 20, 2026.
Which Norton InQuizitive question types does Silent Student handle?
Norton says every InQuizitive question is interactive: you drag and drop, click a choice or part of an image or sentence, or type. Rows marked Not tested have no run behind them yet.
| Question type | Handled | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple choice | Yes | |
| Word-bank and dropdown blanks | Yes | Picked from InQuizitive’s menus. |
| Drag-to-blank items | Yes | Filled through the dropdowns InQuizitive offers keyboard users. |
| Ordering (click or drag) | Yes | Tested on our own InQuizitive-style replica. |
| Click part of an image or sentence | Not tested | |
| Typed answers | Not tested |
What won’t it do on Norton InQuizitive?
InQuizitive runs on the general vision agent. Here is where that matters.
- No InQuizitive-specific solver. InQuizitive runs on the general vision agent, which reads the screen. It is less predictable than a dedicated solver, so read the run log.
- No completion check. It has no reader for InQuizitive’s Current Grade box, so a run can end unconfirmed on a finished activity. Check the box yourself before the Grades Accepted Until date.
- Wrong answers cost points. A wrong first answer loses the points the confidence slider is set to, and the agent cannot take an answer back.
- Image and typed questions are untested. Questions where you click part of an image or type an answer have not been tested.
How much does Silent Student cost for Norton InQuizitive?
Every plan includes Norton InQuizitive, billed monthly: Base is $11.99, Plus $24.99 and Pro $49.99 a month. There is no free plan. Norton’s own access fee, if your course has one, is separate.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Base | $11.99 a month | 1× monthly usage pool |
| Plus | $24.99 a month | 2× usage and the advanced pro model |
| Pro | $49.99 a month | Unlimited usage (fair use) and the pro model |
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What does Silent Student do on Norton InQuizitive?
Norton InQuizitive activities opened from Canvas, answered one question at a time, drag-to-blank items included.
One question at a time
It answers a question, reads InQuizitive’s feedback, then moves on with Next Question.
Drag-to-blank through the dropdowns
For drag-to-blank items it uses the dropdown menus InQuizitive offers keyboard users, so each choice goes through Norton’s own controls.
Runs from your Canvas course
It follows the activity’s link from Canvas, so the grade reports through your course’s Norton connection.
Honest when it stops
A run that answered some questions and then got stuck is reported as partial, never as done.
How does Silent Student work on Norton InQuizitive, step by step?
Pick the activity in Canvas
Open the Silent Student desktop app, find the InQuizitive assignment in your Canvas course list, and queue it.
It opens InQuizitive from Canvas
The app follows the assignment’s link out of Canvas to the Norton activity. It does not ask for or type your Norton password.
It answers each question
The vision agent reads the question, answers it, reads the feedback and goes to the next one.
It reports what it answered
The run log lists what it answered. Check the Current Grade box to see where the activity stands.
What is the Grades Accepted Until date in InQuizitive?
InQuizitive’s version of a due date. Norton says that once it passes, “your work will be collected and you'll no longer be able to improve your grade,” though you can still answer questions to study.
Source: W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, How Grading Works, checked October 20, 2026.
Can your instructor see how long you spend in InQuizitive?
Yes. Norton’s InQuizitive page says the instructor’s Students tab shows “Student progress on each Learning Objective and time spent working in the activity.” Your own activity report marks each question you answered right or wrong. The Norton pages we read don’t describe AI detection, tab tracking or a lockdown browser for InQuizitive, so we make no claim either way. Silent Student does not hide or fake any activity.
Sources: W. W. Norton, InQuizitive; W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, Review Mode, checked October 20, 2026.
Does InQuizitive work in Canvas?
Yes. Norton says InQuizitive “can be integrated directly into Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or D2L/Brightspace.” When your instructor uses an LTI connection for grades, you don’t need a Student Set ID, and Norton says your grades “will automatically report to your instructor.” Silent Student follows the activity’s link from your Canvas course.
Sources: W. W. Norton, InQuizitive; W. W. Norton Knowledge Base, Getting Started as a Student with InQuizitive, checked October 20, 2026.
What do Norton’s Terms of Use say about automated tools?
Norton’s Terms of Use, effective December 19, 2023, cover its websites and online services. They say you may not “gather, obtain, use, access or otherwise copy any part of the Sites or Site Content using any bot, spider, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software or any other automatic device, utility or manual process of any kind,” and they bar putting Norton content into outside tools, “including those using artificial intelligence technologies.” In our reading, that reaches Silent Student. We are not lawyers. Read the Terms yourself before you decide. Norton’s clause sits next to other publishers’ in our table of homework platform terms on AI tools.
Source: W. W. Norton Terms of Use, checked October 20, 2026.
How does Silent Student answer InQuizitive drag-and-drop questions?
Through the keyboard path InQuizitive already provides. Its drag-to-blank items hide the word chips from screen readers and offer one small dropdown menu per blank instead. Until late September 2026 the agent could not see those menus, and two runs ended without an answer. Since then the app lists them and picks each choice through the page’s own menu.
Norton InQuizitive FAQ
Is Silent Student made by W. W. Norton?
No. Silent Student is made by El Dorado Ignition LLC and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by W. W. Norton & Company.
Does it work on Norton Smartwork or ZAPS?
Those Norton tools have not been tested, and this page covers InQuizitive only.
Related platforms and tools
Platform pages and free tools related to Norton InQuizitive.
Sources
Updated . Every page below was checked on October 20, 2026; each answer above names the page it quotes.
Silent Student is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by W. W. Norton & Company. Norton and InQuizitive are trademarks of their owner, used here only to describe the software this product works with. Silent Student promises no grade or academic outcome; you are responsible for reviewing what is submitted under your name and for your institution's academic-integrity policies.
Queue an InQuizitive activity from Canvas
Queue the activity from your Canvas course, then check InQuizitive’s Current Grade box against the run log.
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