Extending Time on Exams in Canvas for Students with Accommodations

These instructions will explain how to extend testing time for individual students on Canvas.

If students need this extension due to an accommodation, they should have shared their 504 letter with you in Box. You can check their letter to determine if the student has time and a half (1.5x) or double time (2x) on exams.

This article covers:

• Adding a separate Assign to section
• Moderating a Classic Quiz
• Moderating a New Quiz

Adding a Separate "Assign to Section"

1. After creating a new quiz, set its time limit for all students. Later, add extra time for students with accommodations.
2. Set the general availability of your quiz. The quiz will auto-submit when this time ends. For example, if you set a 10-minute timed quiz from 11:00 AM to 11:15 AM, students can start at 11:00, and the quiz will auto-submit after 10 minutes. Even if a student starts at 11:10, the quiz will still auto-submit at 11:15, the set closing time.
3. Add "Availability" time for the student who needs extra time. The availability for your quiz needs to include your students’ extended time. You can set the availability for your entire class to include the extended time, or you can add a separate availability for your student with accommodations by clicking “+Add.”

4. Click on "+Add" to add a separate set of Assign to dates for a student.
5. When you click “+Add” you will see a list of your students and any sections in your class. Search for and select the student who needs extra time. 
   • Note: You can add multiple students here if they all need the same accommodation. Adjust the due date and availability ending date. The ending availability date needs to include the extra time granted to the student. For example, for a student who gets 1.5x for a 10-minute quiz, you would extend the ending time by 5 minutes.
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6. Once you have added the separate student “Assign to” section, you will see the original has changed to "Everyone else."
   • Note: Make sure there are at least 2 “Assign to” sections, one for “Everyone Else” and one for the student(s) needing the accommodation. If you only have one for the student(s) needing the accommodation, then the rest of the students in the class will not have access to the quiz.

Step 2. Moderate the Quiz to add extra time for a student

1. Publish the quiz. To moderate the quiz for your students with accommodations, the quiz must be published. If the Availability date is set in the future, your students will not receive a notification. Once you’ve extended the time for your student(s) with accommodations, you can unpublish the quiz and continue editing it.
   • Note: You must moderate the quiz to add extra time before students start taking the quiz. You can't add extra time once they have started taking the quiz.
2. Select "Moderate This Quiz" in the upper right corner. You'll see a list of your students. Select the pencil icon to the right of the student’s name to edit.
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3. Add extra time on every attempt and click "Save.
4. Add extra time by typing in the number of extra minutes the student with accommodations should receive for the exam and click “Save.” 
   • For a 50-minute class period, a student with 1.5x will get 25 extra minutes. 
   • For a 75-minute class period, a student with 1.5x will get 38 extra minutes.
5. Verify the time extension. Once you have extended the student’s time, you can verify that you have extended the time underneath the student’s name.

Note: 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. You can edit the assignment to extend the availability date.

Moderating a New Quiz in Canvas

If you are using New Quizzes in Canvas, moderating a quiz works similarly, but it is accessed through the Build menu.

• Access the New Quiz you need to moderate and choose Build.
• Select Moderate from the Build menu.
  
• The Moderation page displays a list of students in the course [1], their quiz attempts [2], the score for each attempt [3], the time for each attempt [4], attempt logs [5], and total quiz accommodations [6].
  

• To moderate a quiz for an individual student, click the Moderate button [8]. Moderation options include managing timer settings and reopening a student's most recent attempt.

  To manage student course-wide quiz accommodations, click the student name link [9].

• To add time or attempts for a student, click the pencil icon to open the Accommodation menu. 

  1. Select Additional Attempts to add attempts for the student.

  2. Select Time Adjustments to Remove the Time Limit or Give Additional Time.

  3. You can also choose to reduce the number of answer choices for multiple choice questions.

     
      

Canvas has extensive documentation on moderating Classic Quizzes  and New Quizzes in the Canvas Guides.