Dear All,
I am hoping you may be able to offer some clarity with regard to moderating in-progress quizzes, in both New Quizzes and Classic Quizzes.
Specifically, I am looking for clarification on available options when it comes to giving a student additional time while their quiz is in-progress i.e. extending the time available for them to complete the quiz while they are actually doing the quiz.
My understanding to date is as follows:
In-Progress Untimed Quiz: Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes
An Untimed Quiz is a quiz where no “time limit” is set. Time available for the quiz is determined by Available From and Available Until time/dates.
It is not possible to add additional time to an in-progress quiz by changing the Available Until date. The quiz will auto-submit at the time/date settings in place when the quiz was begun.
"Changing the until date for a published quiz will not alter the auto-submit time for students with in-progress submissions." Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?
This applies even in a case where you update the quiz settings to create a separate Assign To section for a particular student where you set the extended Available Until time/date.
In-Progress Timed Quiz
A Timed Quiz is a quiz where a “time limit” is set. This is separate from any Available From/Until and Due dates/times.
Classic Quizzes
For a Timed Quiz, I can give additional time to a student during an in-progress quiz by moderating the quiz. Moderating the quiz to extend the time available involves extending the quiz by x minutes from current end time (i.e. from the current Available Until date/time)
A student´s submission will be recorded as late because, due to the time extension, it will be submitted after the set Available Until date/time.
This understanding is based on the following:
"If you give a student extra time during an in-process quiz with a set availability date and time, their submission time will display as occurring later than the selected availability time." Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
I have tested this and the system behaves as described above i.e. the student receives a time extension but their submission is recorded as late.
This appears to contradict the following note in relation to Add Extra Time on Attempt.
"Quiz availability dates still apply when moderating a quiz. If the Until date passes when students are taking the quiz with extended time, the quiz auto-submits even if the student's time extension has not expired." Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
A colleague has suggested that the above is specific to the Available Until date (not time) and that this provision only applies to cases where a time extension extends the time available across two days.
For example, students have 60 minutes to complete a quiz that is Available From 11.00 1st June and Available Until 23.59 1st June. A time extension of 30 minutes is granted to a student who begins the quiz at 23.00 1st June i.e. time extension runs until 00.29 2nd June. In this case, the quiz will auto-submit at 23.59 1st June and the student will receive only 1 minute of additional 30 minutes.
New Quizzes
Timed Quiz with Available From/Until and Due date/times
From testing, it appears that it is not possible to extend the time for an in-progress quiz by moderating the quiz for a particular student and giving them additional time. It appears that the Available Until time/date supersedes any time extension granted during an in-progress quiz.
Timed Quiz with Available From and Due date/times but no Available Until time/date
I have tested this for an in-progress quiz with Available From and Due dates/times, but with no Available Until date/time, and, again, while I moderate to grant additional time, the student does not receive it and the quiz auto-submits at the end of the original time limit.
Timed Quiz with Available From date/time but no Due or Available Until time/date
I have also tested this with no Due Date and no Available Until date and I get the same result – I moderate the in-progress quiz but the student does not receive the additional time.
The below, from two separate Canvas Instructor Guides, appears contradictory.
"Moderation timer settings will not be applied to an assessment attempt that is currently in progress." How do I moderate a student´s assessment attempt in New Quizzes?
"If a student is currently taking the quiz while you are viewing the Moderate Quiz page, you can extend the quiz time as part of their current attempt. You can choose how many minutes to extend the quiz, and whether you want to add those minutes to the current time or the current (scheduled) end time." Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
I would be really grateful for any light you might be able to shine on the above.
Best Wishes,
jb