Canvas - Granting Student Accommodations with Quizzes (for Instructors)


Introduction

 

Canvas is Virginia Tech's learning management system (LMS). Instructors use Canvas to manage teaching materials like assignments, quizzes, feedback, and student grades. 

  • Official courses are automatically created in instructors' Canvas accounts.
  • Enrolled students are automatically added.
  • Instructors can reuse teaching materials by importing them to a new course site.
  • Canvas provides 24-7 support by phone (833-639-7621) and chat (click Help on any Canvas screen).

The Canvas Instructor Guide has full instructions on using Canvas. These instructions are specific to Virginia Tech. To see other Canvas topics, please see Using Canvas at Virginia Tech (for Instructors).

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Instructions

Granting Extra Time/Attempts on Classic Quizzes

To grant students extra time or attempts:

  1. Create and publish a single quiz for the entire class. You don't need to make two versions!
  2. Go to the quiz and click Moderate This Quiz. The Moderate Quiz page shows what students submitted, their score, and how long they took on the quiz. If you do not see the Moderate this Quiz option, please ensure your quiz is published as it will not display until you publish your quiz.
    • Attempt - the number of times the student submitted (not started!) the quiz.
    • Time - how long the student spent on the quiz.
    • Score - the portion of the score that Canvas automatically calculates.
    • Arrows/pencils - give the student another attempt.
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  3. Find the student you want to give extra time or submission to and click the pencil next to their name. 
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  4. On the Student Extensions window:
    • Give the student a number of extra attempts. Check Manually unlock the quiz for the next attempt if the quiz end date has passed. 
    • Give the student extra time for every attempt. 
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  5. Click Save. If the quiz is only available for a short amount of time, such as the length of one class period, go to step 6.
  6. In the Quizzes tool, select the name of the quiz in question, then click Edit.
    • Alternately while in the Quizzes tool, you can click the three dots to the right of the quiz and click Edit in the dropdown menu.
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  7. Scroll down to Assign to and click the +Add button. A new entry will appear to add the student.
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  8. In the new entry, in the Assign to field, add the student. 
    • To find the student, use the dropdown option or start typing the student's name. 
    • The "Assign to" in the first entry will change from Everyone to Everyone else.
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  9. Change the dates in the Due, Available from, and Until fields as necessary to grant the student additional time. 
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  10. Complete steps 7-9 for each additional student.
  11. When finished, click the Save button in the bottom right corner. 

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Granting Extra Time/Attempts on New Quizzes

With New Quizzes, you only need to grant a student additional time once. These settings will be applied to all course assessments for the student.

  1. In the Quizzes tool, click on the name of the quiz in question.
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  2. Scroll down and click the Build button.
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  3. Click Moderate at the top of the screen.
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  4. To grant accommodations to a student, click the pencil icon to the right of the student's name.
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  5. In the pop-up box, under Time adjustments, click on Give additional time, enter the extra time needed.
  6. Click Save. Time accommodations are now granted to that student for every quiz given with New Quizzes in this course. If the quiz is only available for a short amount of time, such as the length of one class period, go to the next step.
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  7. In the Quizzes tool, click on the name of the quiz in question.
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  8. Scroll down to Assign to and click the +Add button. A new entry will appear to add the student.
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  9. In the new entry, in the Assign to field, add the student.
    1. To find the student, use the dropdown option or start typing the student's name.
    2. The "Assign to" in the first entry will change from Everyone to Everyone else.
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  10. Change the dates in the Due, Available from, and Until fields as necessary to grant the student additional access to the quiz. 
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  11. Complete steps 8-10 for each additional student.
  12. When finished, click the Save button in the bottom right corner. 

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Getting Help

For instructions on resolving common issues with Canvas, see:

Instructure, the creators of Canvas, provide 24-7 Canvas support, including live chat and a support hotline.

To get Canvas help, click Support on any Canvas screen and choose from help options:

In Canvas, use the new Help Docs button located near the Support button that will provide quick access to a knowledge base located inside Canvas.

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