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After transitioning to new quizzes this semester, I discovered that there is a major flaw in the interaction between new quizzes, the late penalty, and module requirements. Although a new quiz can be ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When working with inclusion classes where some students need the assessment read to them and others do not, not being able to set their questions to the same order is problematic.   I know that I can ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I  am updating my course for the upcoming academic year and I have stumbled upon a major roadblock regarding quizzes.  With the Classic Quizzes set to disappear next summer, it doesn't seem worth my w...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I strongly suggest that Canvas return to (what I think was) the default of 1) having a Canvas multiple choice quiz question include 5 answer choices; and 2) have Canvas use the current number of choic...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When administering a New Quiz that has a specific timed availability window defined, the dates of the availability window are displayed to the student, but not the times. For example, this quiz is onl...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Feature Request:  Pop up a warning when navigating away from editing a quiz to give instructors a chance to change the total points that are in the gradebook.  The warning should be similar to one tha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Multiple faculty in have requested the following enhancement for assessments in Quizzes.Next.  In Canvas Quizzes.Next there's no way for the quiz to be due at a particular time, and be considered "sub...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Instructure has decided that course designers should not be able to create or edit New Quizzes. The purpose of the designer role is to create and maintain course content, so making designers unable to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi, I just had a professor call me. He mutes his exams while grading them, because he adjusts up and down based on how many missed a question. He switched over to Quizzes.Next, and we found that it do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently when a student is finishes answering a question they must select next question or submit answer button to move onto the next question or end the assignment.   Many of my students would lik...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would love to be able to set different access codes for a quiz for each section of the class. Because they meet at different times, I have to edit the quiz after each section takes it to change the ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When averaging quiz attempts or when using "latest score" for a quiz, it would be helpful if instructors could delete a quiz attempt by a student. If there is a glitch, an inaccurate/ incomplete attem...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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