Add Additional Time or Attempts for a Student in New Quizzes

Last updated on June 9, 2026

Once you have set up your quiz in Canvas, including the allowed time for all students, you can easily change that time requirement for select students without editing the rest of the class. Canvas allows instructors to provide accommodations such as extra time and extra quiz attempts to their students using the Quiz Moderation feature.

Note: If you set Availability Dates for the quiz, they will take precedence over any accommodations. This can result in a student’s quiz being auto-submitted before their extended time accommodation has expired. See the tutorial, Extend a Due Date for an Individual Student for guidance on how to adjust the availability window for student’s with accommodations.

Directions

1. Log in to your Canvas Account.
2. Select the Course you’d like to work in.
3. Click Modules on the course navigation menu to the left.
4. Scroll to the Module where your Quiz is located.
5. Click the Name of the new quiz you wish to provide accommodations for.
   • Note: Classic Quizzes have an outline of a rocket ship, while New Quizzes have a solid rocket ship.
6. Scroll to the Bottom of the page.
7. Click Build.
8. Click Moderate from the menu at the top of the window.

Adjust Current Quiz Accommodations or Reopen Quiz Attempt

These accommodations will only impact the current quiz you are working in.

1. Click the pencil icon to the right of the Student’s name you wish to add accommodations for.
2. Click the toggle next to Reduced answer choices to remove one incorrect answer choice from all multiple choice questions for that student.
3. Click the Time Limit tab from the Current Quiz Accommodation panel to adjust the Time Limit accommodations for the quiz.
   • Click the Time adjustments dropdown menu to select a Time Adjustment option.
     • Give additional time: Enter the number of addition hours and minutes the student will receive past the original time limit for each New Quiz.
     • Remove time limit (unlimited): This will take away the time limit for that student for all New Quizzes in the course.
4. Click the Attempts tab rom the Current Quiz Accommodation panel to provide the student with additional attempts for the quiz.
   • Enter the number of additional attempts the student will receive for the current quiz in the Additional Attempts field.
5. Click the blue button at the bottom right of the accommodations panel to save your changes. The Blue button will differ depending on the students submission status and adjustments made.
   • Apply & Reopen: This will save time changes and reopen the latest quiz attempt for the student. The student will be allowed to resume their assessment with the additional time granted, and all previously recorded responses will be retained.
     • This appears if the students quiz attempt has been graded, and the time settings were changed.
   • Reopen: This will reopen the students previous attempt without changing time settings. The student will be allowed to resume their assessment with any remaining time they had on the time before it was submitted, and all previously recorded responses will be retained.
     • This will appear if you did not make any accommodation changes but the student has time remaining on the time.
     • Use this if a student accidentally submitted early or were prevented from finishing due to the Availability Window.
   • Apply: This will save any time or additional attempt settings for the quiz without reopening an attempt.
     • This appears when adjusting the number of attempts or adjusting the time limit before a student has submitted their final attempt.

Adjust Course Level Accommodations

Course level accommodations will apply for all New Quizzes in the course. You can only add additional time and reduce answer choices at the course level. Additional attempts must be done on an individual quiz basis.

1. Click the Name of the student you wish to set course level accommodations for.
2. Click the Time adjustments dropdown menu to select a Time Adjustment option.
   • Give additional time: Enter the number of addition hours and minutes the student will receive past the original time limit for each New Quiz.
   • Remove time limit (unlimited): This will take away the time limit for that student for all New Quizzes in the course.
   • Time limit multiplier: Enter a multiplier number that will multiply the time limit for each New Quiz by that amount.
     • Ex. If a student’s accommodations state that they receive time-and-a-half for all quizzes, enter 1.5 in the Time limit multiplier field.
3. Click the toggle next to Reduced answer choices to remove one incorrect answer choice from all multiple choice questions for that student.
4. Check the box next to Apply these changes to the in-progress attempts as well if the student has already begun a quiz attempt and needs these accommodations.
5. Click Save.

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