Why are the stimulus borders in New Quizzes so narrow?

[THEODOREBOORUM]

I have been using New Quizzes for years now.  Today the same new quiz looked different from last year.  The field in which the stimulus text is visible is extremely narrow in the student view.  The question field is correspondingly too wide.  My students could use it but it detracted from their experience and essentially made the assignment worse for no apparent reason.

How can I make this more readable?  The formatting is very poor and this is an issue for students with exceptionalities.

[tbaker-mc]

Not a resolution, but a workaround and hopefully a note for Instructure if they need to look into this...I would also recommend reaching out to your Canvas admin team and have them submit a ticket with Instructure directly (have them also reference this post so it can be tracked should other issues come up) as they would escalate the issue with their engineering team the more they get tickets like this.

Workaround
Instead of having the stimulus be on the left and the questions on the right, switch it to stimulus on top with questions below. We use the L/R option like you, so I don't want to change it for the program that uses it (thankfully don't need to worry about it today).

Note for Instructure or others with this issue
This narrow stimulus issue seems to only happen when the length and number of questions exceeds the height of the stimulus. Attached two screenshots for reference. This does NOT appear on the Build menu. Looks like the scroll window isn't generating for the "questions to the right" orientation.

[MitchellOsmond]

I recently had this same issue in a new quiz using the stimulus that we managed to solve. The quiz itself used a range of different question types, essay, MCQ, etc. I started systematically removing questions and what I found was the stimulus went back to normal size when I removed the 'categorisation' question type - it must need a specific width to function, and when paired with a stimulus it shrinks the stimulus to get the required space.

[tbaker-mc]

I'm surprised Instructure hasn't updated this discussion post to reflect the current status, but this is a known issue that the engineers are working on. Actually has nothing to do with the categorization question type, as it's happening with regular multiple choice questions -- looks more to be about how much space the questions take up in comparison to the stimulus itself, as the scroll window isn't generating. Their support team hasn't given an update on when this will be fixed, as it looks like there are other issues with New Quizzes right now as well (unlimited timing accommodations on timed quizzes).