New Quiz Moderations/Accommodation Questions (Best practice for adding extra time to a timed writing assesment)

[ddamschen]

How are you allowing extra time for HS students with accomadations (504/IEP)?

📚 Scenario: We have an English teacher who is using new Quizes for a timed writing. All her students get 20 minutes. Students who are allowed more timer per their 504/IEP then come back after class to finish. She has a crosslisted course with 2 sections of 31 students each. They are co-taught courses with special education teacher- aprox 1/3rd of the students in each class have accomadations.

Her current class flow is having students take the timed writing in the middle of the class period. After the 20 minutes, the assesment auto submits. Then as a class they transition to other work/learning, etc.

❓ Questions: When she click on the Moderate button allowing 1 more attempt w/ time adjustment of 15 minutes, it gave the students the orginal 20 minutes instead of the +15min. Is this b/c when you allow 1 more attempt, its a new session with OG settings?

• If she simply moderates and only allows etxra 15 min does it show a 35 min timer when the student begins the quiz?
• If she uses the Accommodation method for those students, do they see a 35 min timer?
• With both methods above will the students need to submit on there own after 20 mins? Or will it auto submit and when student opens it again, will it then provide the extra 15min?
• If student forgets to submit, does the timer run it's self out... all 35minutes?

👍 Best Practice: What is YOUR best practice w/Quizzes and accommodating students through Moderation settings?

Thank you in advance!!!!

[RebeccaMoulder]

@ddamschen The Accommodations tool is hands-down the best way to extend the time limit for individual students, especially if there are multiple quizzes, since the extra-time is applied to all future quizzes. You can set either a time-limit multiplier for quizzes of varying time limits (eg, 50% more time becomes 1.5x time limit, regardless of the length) or add a set amount of extra time (eg, 15 min) if all the quizzes have the same time limit. In this case, a 20-min quiz would automatically be timed for 35 min for students with accommodations. Students will see a time limit of 35 min when they start the quiz.

When you use the Accommodations tool, the extra time is automatically applied to the student's attempt--no need to give them a 2nd attempt (which sounds both disruptive and hard to grade!). Extra attempts mean that students retake the quiz. It does not include their previous answers and if questions are shuffled or pulled from banks, they will get a new batch of questions in a different order with each attempt. 

If a student doesn't submit manually, Canvas quizzes will automatically submit at the end of the time limit or the Available Until time (if applicable), whichever comes first. 

Hope this helps!

[LauraJiménez]

Hi @RebeccaMoulder and @ddamschen 

I'm having a similar issue and adding extra time without adding an extra attempt doesn't seem to be working.

These are the steps I followed:

1. As a teacher, I created a New quiz with just one attempt and a time limit of 1 minute.
2. As a student, I started taking the quiz and let the time finish.
3. As a teacher, I added additional time for the attempt.
4. As a student, I tried to access the quiz again, but I got a message stating that I reached the time limit.

Is there any workaround?

What I found is that, when providing extra time and an extra attempt (based on previous answers):

1. Extra time gets added to original time (as @ddamschen mentioned).
2. Wrong answers, partially unanswered previous answers and unanswered previous answers will display during the second attempt, so only correct answers will be hidden, which gives the student the opportunity to change the wrong answers (this is unwanted).
3. If the quiz is generated from a randomized item bank, the student might get a whole new quiz on the second attempt.

Thanks in advance!

[RebeccaMoulder]

@LauraJiménez I think the problem with that scenario is that extra time cannot be added to a New Quiz while the quiz is in progress or after the time limit has expired. Not being able to give extra time to an in-progress attempt in New Quizzes is a big issue. It's definitely on Instructure's radar to add this feature!

A workaround you can use if you need to add more time to a student's attempt after the time has already run out is to remove the time limit from the quiz Settings (this removes the time limit for everyone, so it's not ideal if you want to extend a quiz for just one student but others are still taking the quiz).

Then you can open Moderate, and click the Moderate button next to the student's name. Give them the additional time, then click Reopen (since the quiz would have been autosubmitted at the end of the time limit). This will allow the student to resume their quiz with the extra time you just gave them. 

Hope this helps!

[LauraJiménez]

@RebeccaMoulder I checked the Roadmap and one of the things they're addressing by Q4 and beyond is "Instructors will be able to provide just-in-time accommodations of additional time for students, ensuring equitable access in the quizzing process.". 

I assume this is what will solve not being able to give extra time once the attempt has started and/or time limit has been reached.

Removing the time limit for everyone and reopening the attempt for a specific student would mean that they could continue the attempt without time limit, so admins or teachers would lose control of the time to finish the exam.

I think this is a big gap in order to manage a high volume of digital exams taking place on certain dates and times, since as you said, 

Maybe another workaround would be to control the date and time access and exceptions from the activity and not the quiz.

[ddamschen]

Thanks Rebecca-

This teacher is trying to avoid students seeing different time limits. Students ask "why does XX have more time than me?" and wants to respect the privacy/anonymity of those students with 504s or IEPS.

I am going to check out the RoadMap like @LauraJiménez mentioned. 

Thanks to you both!

🙂 Dianne

[RebeccaMoulder]

@ddamschen Students only see their own time limits and availability windows, not those assigned to their peers, so unless they're sitting close enough to see the small time limit counter on each other's screens or tell other people, the time limits will be private to them. 

I am anxiously awaiting the release which will allow adding time to in-progress quizzes! 🤞