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Is it possible to do quiz accommodations for an entire group?

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EdwinMilham
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I teach large lecture format classes, and so with hundreds of students, I receive a lot of accommodation letters, many of which include a 1.5x test time accommodation.  One thing I found useful in the last LMS we used was to create a group containing all students with that accommodation, then assign the accommodation to the whole group on each test and quiz.  That way, every time I would receive such an accommodation, I could just drop that student into the group, and they would automatically get the accommodation on all tests and quizzes.  The group was set so that the students couldn't see who else was in it, as well, and most probably didn't even know they were in a group.

Is this possible in Canvas?  In "Moderate" in quizzes, only students are listed, not groups, and under groups I don't see any way to do it, either.  The only thing I can see to do is to set up the accommodation for each student on each quiz and test.

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Gabriel33
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You can do the other way around in New Quizzes: Given a student, add time for them in all quizzes, so you'd still do the accommodation once per student.
See the second paragraph in the blue box: How do I add accommodations for a student in New Q... - Instructure Community - 1092

 

Differentiation tags were just announced and could help set the available from/to dates in the assign to page.
Perhaps they could be available in the Moderate page as well, but that's not listed as a feature: Differentiation Tags • FAQ - Instructure Community - 639336.
I do wonder how that works when a student is in multiple tags, though.

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