Available Until field overrides Timer in New Quizzes

shane_cronin
Community Member

Until recently, the Available Until field in Canvas for New Quizzes imposed no hard deadline on New Quizzes (in the way that Classic Quizzes does) - it simply dictated the window within which students could launch the quiz. 

Example: A quiz has a 60 minute time limit and availability from 12pm until 12:10pm. The student started the quiz at 12:09pm. They are able to work on the quiz for the full 60 minutes from the launch time and either submit before the timer ends or New Quizzes auto-submits for when the timer is up.

However, it appears this relationship between timer and available until function in Canvas has changed in recent days to work more like Classic Quizzes in that the "Available Until" field now stops the quiz and auto submits - it does not take the timer into account like before.

I have read some other related articles in forums over the months, but wondered if anyone has experienced this change, which appears to be undocumented as a Feature update anywhere by Canvas?

Very frustrated with the existence of Two quiz tools in Canvas. We have been advocating for New Quiz adoption from day one, when Canvas were saying that the tool would become the defacto tool within the year. This is two years later and we are still looking at July 2021 for this to occur? It is causing much confusion with users.

 

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