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

Note: To ensure students with accommodations receive their full extended time allowance, your quiz’s availability window must be longer than the total time they are permitted. If the availability window is too short, Canvas cannot apply the additional time. You can meet this requirement by either:

• Extending the Quiz Availability Window for the entire class, or
• Using Assign To to give only the students with accommodations a longer availability window.

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

Add Attempts for a student

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. 

Classic Quizzes

• Add Attempts to Classic Quizzes

New Quizzes

• Add Attempts to New Quizzes.