I've tried a few things.

I've added in a HTML block at the top of the course and set it to display on any page.

Then I've got into the quiz as a teacher and added a block at in setting it as visable only when in this quiz, but accross all mod-* pages

I then started an attempt as the teacher and added in a block to that page, setting it as visible only within the Quiz, but across all pages.

I then set "'Show blocks during quiz attempts" to yes (Note: When the page came back it was set to no.. see * further down)

I logged in as a student and couldn't see the blocks during the attempt.

• After going round in circles for a few minutes I realised that the show blocks option was never being set. It would always say "No" when I came back to the quiz settings page.

I've noticed that in the DB config_plugins table where it holds the quiz settings it has a bunch of settings. I have noticed that all the "Advanced" settings have two fields in that table. i.e. showblocks = 0 AND showblocks_adv = 0

II set them both to 1, but it didn't make any difference to this test case.