Creating templates for assessments/assignments can be very helpful to instructors. Tests & Quizzes has an option to do this, but it's turned off by default in stock Sakai, and many institutions keep it disabled due to its counterintuitive options that lead to problems for instructors and support staff. The problem is that users are able to "lock down" certain settings by unchecking boxes that allow the values to be edited.

Some of these options are particularly counterintuitive. This is a feature request to improve the available options and prevent the support issues that can arise from inadvertent selections on the instructor's behalf (see individual subtasks for details).