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title: "FlexMastery: The tool that believes in second chances – News from the Nest"
description: Do you want to give your students an additional attempt at a similar Certify question before they receive a strike? You can do so by using FlexMastery, a setting in your Grade Book curriculum! Just follow the quick steps below to start using it today. Pro tip? Selecting the Limit additional attempts per question to…
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# [FlexMastery: The tool that believes in second chances – News from the Nest](https://www.hawkeslearning.com/blog/flexmastery-the-tool-that-believes-in-second-chances)

 Written by [Hawkes Learning](https://www.hawkeslearning.com/blog/author/hawkes-learning) | Oct 9, 2015 4:00:00 AM

Do you want to give your students an additional attempt at a similar Certify question before they receive a strike? You can do so by using FlexMastery, a setting in your Grade Book curriculum! Just follow the quick steps below to start using it today. Pro tip? Selecting the *Limit additional attempts per question to* option and giving just one extra attempt usually does the trick!

From your online Grade Book,

- Go to the **Assignments** tab
- Select **Curriculum**
- Choose **Manage by Curriculum**
- Select the grey box that has the name of your curriculum
- Check the box that says “*Allow students to retry a missed question with new values instead of receiving a strike*” and designate the number of additional attempts you want to allow.
- Remember to **Save Changes**
- Select **Back to Manage Curricula**
- Under your name, make sure that your sections are assigned your curriculum and not the default, then **Save Changes** if necessary

Check out our video tutorial below!

[View full post](https://www.hawkeslearning.com/blog/flexmastery-the-tool-that-believes-in-second-chances)

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