Canvas: Moderate a Student's Quiz

This article will review the features of Quiz moderation in Canvas Quizzes for both Classic Quizzes and for New Quizzes. Quiz moderation is a feature in Classic and New Quizzes that allows an instructor to give students extra time on timed quizzes, extra attempts on quizzes with limited attempts and unlock quiz attempts to allow students to pick up where they left off. 

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New Quizzes

Moderate Settings

Moderation Settings on new quizzes can be found with the following navigation:

  1. Open the quiz

  2. Scroll to the bottom of the quiz and select Build

  3. Click on the Moderate tab
    Menu bar at top of page displaying a red box around the Moderate tab.

  4. This tab shows many details including the number of attempts each student has made, how long they took on their attempts, and if any Accommodations have been applied for the student
    .Moderate page with student search box and student list. Each row contains columns attempts, score, time, log, accommodation and a Moderate button.

Giving Extra Attempts / Time Adjustments

When viewing the moderate details tab, instructors can modify an individual student's options by clicking on Moderate on the right hand side of the student row. This will bring up the moderate options.

Popup tab displaying Manage current attempt, reopen button, an additional attempts input box and a time adjustment drop down list.

  • Reopen allows instructors to re-open the students' most recent attempt and allow them to resume the quiz where they left off.
  • Adding Additional Attempts allows the student to try the exam again after they completed the amount of allowed attempts from the quiz default settings.
  • Time Adjustments has three different options selectable by the drop down.
    • None: No extra rules applied for time
    • Give Additional time: Allowing students additional hours/minutes.
    • Remove time limit (unlimited): Allows students to take as long as they would like on the Quiz

Applying Ongoing Accommodations

Instructors can use Accommodation New Quizzes to apply course wide accommodations for a specific student. This can be useful if a student receives DRC accommodations on every quiz. To do this the instructor needs to follow the following steps.

  1. From the Moderate window click the pencil icon in the Accommodation column for the student you want to apply course wide accommodations.Moderate page with student name search and a list of all the students in the course. Each student row has the columns: attempts, score, time, log, accommodation and a Moderate button.

  2. In the student popup select the type of accommodation you would like to apply from the drop down menu.

  • None
  • Give additional time: Allows the instructor to specify additional hours or minutes that should be applied to the student's assessments, course wide.
  • Remove time limit (unlimited): Allows the instructor to permit the student to take unlimited time on each assessment, course wide.
  • Time limit Multiplier: Allows the instructor to permit the student to take a multiplier of the default course duration specified in the quiz settings. For example, if the default course duration was set to 60 minutes and the Time limit Multiplier was set to 1.50 for student John Smith, then John Smith would be allowed 90 minutes to complete the course assessments.

A popup displaying the student name at the top and a drop down menu containing Give additional time, Remove time limit (unlimited) and Time limit Multiplier.

  1. After selecting the appropriate options click save.

Note: The course wide, student specific, accommodations only apply to New Quizzes. A Classic Quiz would not be influenced by this setting. For more information on the difference between new quizzes and classic quizzes please visit Canvas: Understand Classic Quizzes vs. New Quizzes.

For additional information please visit Using Moderate Quiz in New Quizzes

Classic Quizzes

Moderate Settings

Moderation settings for classic quizzes can be found with the following navigation:

  1. Open the Quiz

  2. Under Related Items, click Moderate This Quiz on the right side.
    The quiz page with a red box around the Moderate This Quiz row of the related items list on the right.

  3. This tab shows the number of attempts the student has completed, how many attempts they have left, and how much time they took on the most recent attempt.
    A page titled Moderate Quiz with a list of students displaying an attempt column, time column, Attempts Left column, score column and a column containing a pencil icon for each student.

Giving Extra Attempts or Extra Time

Instructors can update the number of attempts/time allowed on quizzes by individual students or by several students at once in classic quizzes. For individual students click the pencil icon on the far right of their row. This will display the Student Extensions window.
A popup titled Student Extensions with a box for Extra Attempts and another box for Extra time on every attempt.

  • Extra Attempts: Allows the student to make extra attempts beyond the default number of allowed attempts on the Quiz.

  • Extra Time: Allows the student to take an extra amount of minutes on each attempt of the exam.

  • Manually unlock the quiz for next attempt: Can be checked to unlock a quiz that has passed the Available Until date from the quiz settings. 

To change multiple student settings at once follow these steps.

  1. Check the checkbox next to each student instructors want to modify

  2. Click Change Extensions for (the number of students selected) Selected Students.
    Moderate Quiz page with a list of students. A checkbox next to each student row and link at the bottom "Change Extensions for 2 Selected Students"

  3. This will bring up the same Student Extensions window as moderating the quiz for individual students.

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