Character limits for New Quizzes Essay Questions?

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tdo50
Community Novice

Hello Canvas Community:

Is there a Character Limit option for New Quizzes? Students have been using alternate characters to bypass the auto-word count done by periods, semicolons, colons, spaces, and enters.

I would very much like to see this feature added to essay questions!

Thank you!

TD

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HeatherAhern
Community Team
Community Team

@tdo50 Thank you for your question! At this time there is no way to set a hard limit on characters. The only option in new quizzes on an essay question is to set a word limit, which is really more of a guide than an actual "limit". This will allow students to know when they have met the minimum and exceeded the maximum. I would also recommend providing feedback to our Ideas page to help us improve Canvas for future users

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