Canvas: Quiz Accommodations (Faculty Getting Started Guide)

Some accommodations you may need to apply to quizzes include: 

• Increasing the time to take a Quiz
• Assigning the quiz to a student on a different day/time
• Adding attempts for students to take a quiz

To apply accommodations, you'll need to know if you have New Quizzes or Classic Quizzes.
Submit a helpdesk ticket with Instructional Design and Technology if you're unsure.

Increase Quiz Time Limits

Classic Quizzes

• Increase Quiz time in Canvas Classic Quizzes for an individual Quiz

New Quizzes

• Quiz Time Accommodation in Canvas New Quizzes will apply the accommodation to this and all future quizzes
• Increase Quiz time in Canvas New Quizzes this can also be done mid-quiz attempt

Note:  If your quiz has an availability window that does not exceed the student's accommodation, they will not receive their full accommodated time. You can either extend the available window for all students, or you can use the Assign To functionality to only assign it to the accommodated student.

Different Date/Time/Window with Assign To

• Use Assign To function to set different availability windows and dates for students with accommodations for Assignments, New and Classic Quizzes

Add Attempts for a student

Classic Quizzes

• Add Attempts to Classic Quizzes

New Quizzes

• Add Attempts to New Quizzes. 

Note: If your quiz settings show the answers after submission, students can view between attempts. To prevent this, hide quiz results from students, or consider creating an Item Bank (Question Bank in Classic Quizzes) with many questions for your quiz to randomly pull from.