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Moderate New Quizzes in Canvas

Sometimes students need accommodations for extra time, more attempts or to reopen an already submitted quiz. Here are instructions on how to do that in New Quizzes.

Moderate assessment under the "Moderate" tab

In New Quizzes, click the "Moderate" tab to go to the settings for moderating the quiz.

Open quiz in New Quizzes. The tab "Moderate" in the quiz is highlighted.

Note! Moderation can be done during or before the quiz takes place. If you make changes, the students need to be assigned the quiz again.

After opening Moderation Settings, you will see a table of the students assigned to the quiz. The table also contains the number of attempts, the score, the time they've spent on the quiz, link to a log of activities, active accommodations and a Moderate button. This page explains several of the functions, but if you're missing something, you can read the Canvas Commmunity guide material on moderating New Quizzes .

Total time adjustments under Accommodations

You can find the total time adjustments per student in the column Accommodations. It is the sum of the adjustment done in this quiz and the adjustments made for all quiz in the same Canvas room.

The moderate table. Accommodations column is highlighted and displays students time adjustments.

Moderate the time adjustments for all quiz

You can add time adjustments for single students that will apply for all New Quiz in the same Canvas room. You can therefore change the moderation settings to give a student extra writing time both in existing New Quiz and in future New Quiz.

To moderate these settings, find the correct student in the table and press the edit-button in the "Accommodations" column (the pen icon).

The options you can choose are:

  • "None", which doesn't add any extra time.
  • "Give additional time", to add additional time to the assessment attempt. Select the amount of time in units of minutes and hours.
  • "Remove time limit (unlimited)", to remove the time limit entirely.
  • “Time limit multiplier", to choose a factor to multiply with the time limit.

The chosen time adjustment will be added to the adjustment made for each quiz.

Moderate adjustments for the current quiz

You can make adjustments for single students that only applies for the current quiz. To do som find the student you want to moderate [1] and click the "Moderate"button [2].

The Moderate table. A student has number 1 at their name and 2 at the Moderate button.

A side tray with the alternatives for moderation will appear. The alternatives are:

  • "Reopen assessment". Only visible if the student has made at least one attempt.
  • "Additional attempts". Standard is 0.
  • "Time adjustments". Standard is None.

These alternatives for moderation are explained in more details below.

Reopen an assessment for one student

To reopen the student's most recent assessment attempt, click the "Reopen" button.

The moderation panel. The button to reopen a closed quiz is highlighted.

A warning message will be displayed to inform you that the student can resume their assessment attempt from its previous position. That is, with their previous answers included and with the remaining time on the timer [1]. To accept and reopen the assessment, click the "Reopen" button [2].

The pop-up warning. Warning message is highlighted with number 1, reopen button with 2.

Manage number of attempts

The Moderate panel displays the number of allowed attempts as per the assessment settings [1].

To give the student additional attempts on the assessment, type a number or use the arrow buttons in the "Additional Attempts" field [2].

The moderate panel. Number of attempts highlighted with 1, additional attempts field with 2.

Adjust Time Settings

To adjust the time settings for the student, select an option in the "Time adjustments" menu.

The moderate panel. The drop-down menu for "Time adjustment" is highlighted.

The options you can choose are:

  • "None", which doesn't add any extra time.
  • "Give additional time", to add additional time to the assessment attempt. Select the amount of time in units of minutes and hours.
  • "Remove time limit (unlimited)", to remove the time limit entirely.

The chosen time adjustment will be added to the adjustment made for all quiz.

Manually Submit In-Progress Attempts

If students are currently working on an assessment the number of in-progress attempts is displayed above the table [1]. Click the "attempts" link [2] to see which students haven't submitted the quiz and to get the option to submit it manually.

The moderate table. Message about active attempts marked with 1, the link to them with 2.

A pop-up with the title Attempts in Progress displays a checklist with the "Students" [1] who haven't submitted their quiz. You can manually submit quizzes for all students in the list. All students are checked by default. If you do not want to submit a student's assessment manually, deselect the checkbox for the student [2].

To manually submit the assessment for the selected students, click the "Submit Manually" button [3].

The pop-up. Student list highlighted with 1, checkbox at names with 2, submit button with 3.
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