Second attempts on quizzes

[KathleenMalsch]

If a student makes a second attempt at multiple choice questions on a midterm (classified on Canvas as a quiz), do their first answers disappear, especially essay questions?

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi @KathleenMalsch ...

The question would be...who do the answers disappear for?

• If your student was doing another attempt on the quiz, the student would get a new copy of the quiz to complete where he/she would have to input all the answers again...including any essay questions you may have in the quiz.
• If you are asking about you, yourself, being able to view past submissions of a student's quiz, you can do that via the SpeedGrader.  Check out the section called "Evaluate Multiple Submissions" in this Guide: How do I view the details of a submission for a st... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com) where you can use a drop-down menu to see past submissions (organized by date/time) from student submissions.

Does this help to answer your question?  Please let Community members know...thanks!

[Ron_Bowman]

@KathleenMalsch 

In addition to the information @Chris_Hofer provided, I believe the following is true:

Depending on the settings of the quiz, it is possible for students who take a quiz multiple times to see all of their attempts and how they answered the questions.

You will have to restrict what the students can view on the quiz and then manually change those after the until date for taking the quiz has passed.

It will depend on which quiz version (New or Classic) that you are using.  You will probably want to set the grading mode to manual in the gradebook for that quiz as well to keep students from seeing their score for the quiz they took.

Ron