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Problem statement: Students are not required to respond to all questions in a quiz. This can be intentional or non-intentional on the student's part. There is a warning prior to submission, but will s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I currently use the quiz time limit feature based on the number of questions. It would be nice to be able to set a per question time limit. For instance, if I wanted to only allow 2...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I teach mathematics courses and use the Math Editor frequently (MathQuill in new quizzes). I really like being able to type math equations directly in the Rich Content Editor (RCE),...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Often, instructors need to change assignment due dates. With the classic quizzes, you could adjust due dates for an assignment as needed and the assignment would remain open for all...

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Problem statement: Students on IEP / 504 Plans often have the accommodation written into the plan to remove a distractor from Multiple choice tests. In order to do this, the teacher has to Duplicate t...

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Problem statement: Canvas allows for IP Filters to be saved at the account/subaccount level. These can currently be configured in the Settings tab of any account, under Quiz IP Address Filters. Admins...

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Problem statement: In New Quizzes there is not an option to allow students to see their overall score without also being able to see the points awarded per question. I would like students to be able t...

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Problem statement: In new quizzes, the initial title given to the quiz is applied to both the quiz and the corresponding LTI assignment. After that, if edits are made to the title of the quiz or vice ...

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Problem statement: In classic quizzes, teacher have the option to "Lock this quiz now", which allows to see the quiz in the assignments and quizzes tools, but not open it. This feature is useful for s...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is difficult to identify users in the Item Bank sharing menu. When sharing Item Banks with a person who shares a name with someone else (John Doe and John Doe), it will only show...

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Problem statement: To encourage students to think through their errors, I like to give them multiple attempts without showing them the correct answers. It would be nice to show them the correct answer...

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Problem statement: According to Canvas documentation, quizzes are brought in to a new course space with their source status intact. This means that if it was originally "published" the quiz will be pu...

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Problem statement: Locking content in a Blueprint does not lock the quiz settings. In Classic Quizzes, locking content locks the RCE, questions, and question point values, but teachers can still edit ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I often duplicate a quiz from module to module to keep the format consistent. It would help if, when duplicating a published quiz, the published status was turned off in the duplication. I usually rem...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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If it's possible it would be great to have the ability to resubmit or extend time on a submitted quiz, so not the subsequent quiz attempt. This would reflect a quiz, mid-term or final, that may extend...

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I use timed quizzes and tests in my classes. I noticed that the quizzes autosubmit as soon as the time runs out, even if the student isn't done. However, I'd rather allow them to finish even if it's b...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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An issue we are facing is that changing the point value of a question in New Quizzes does not change the value in the assignment settings in Canvas. We have to manually backtrack and adjust the score ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I usually don't know how many points a quiz will be worth before I make it. Classic Quizzes would just use the number of the points from the questions, but with New Quizzes it just stays at zero unles...

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 Teachers need to be able to enable and disable lockdown browser for quizzes while in quiz edit mode instead of having to go to another page.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Right now any user in an admin account role can adjust the scores in New Quizzes for any teacher at a school site.  We use Grade Guardian which allows account admins to access specific dashboards of s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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