New Quizzes do not allow students to the next question after a Text Block question when Backtracking is disabled

Issue Documented: 2025-05-27
Canvas

This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 6/25/25.

Description

When you have a New Quiz with One Question At A Time enabled and backtracking NOT allowed, Text Block type questions will not allow students to progress to the next one.

Expected Behavior

Students should be able to access and respond to all questions on a quiz.

Workaround

No workaround exists at this time.

Steps to Reproduce

Prerequisites: A course with a student enrollment

  1. Create a New Quiz with a Text Block question and a few other questions.

  2. Enable “One question at a time” and disable Backtracking.

  3. As a student navigate to the quiz and start the attempt.

  4. Observe that when on the Text Block question, clicking on Next does not proceed to the next question.

Additional Info

QUIZ-15863

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