Last edited by Zachary Urdaneta, 1/31/25
Purpose: This document explains how professors can edit quiz settings within Canvas.
Navigate to an online quiz within your course and click Edit.
- The Quiz Type drop-down box allows you to set the quiz to be a Practice Quiz, Graded Quiz, Graded Survey, or Ungraded Survey.
- You can shuffle answers within the quiz questions. (Please keep this in mind if one of your question answers states "All of the above"; "All of these" might help avoid student confusion).
- You can choose to set a time limit by entering the number of minutes students have to complete the entire quiz. Timed quizzes begin once a student begins the exam and will not be paused if the student navigates away from the quiz. If no time limit is set, students will have unlimited time to complete the quiz.
- You can allow multiple attempts.
Canvas online quiz totals are determined by the total points assigned to each question in the quiz:
- You can require students to enter an access code to take the quiz. (If you are using Respondus LockDown Browser, you must enter the same code within LockDown Browser as well because it will override the code you specified within these Quiz Settings. This also applies if you leave the access code field blank within LockDown Browser).
You can set the Due Date, Available From date, and Available Until date for the quiz. These fields are optional and can be set depending how you want to manage the quiz:
Due Date: the date and time that the Quiz is due.
Available From: the date and time when the Quiz will be available for students.
Until: the date and time when students can no longer take the quiz.
You can also assign different quiz due dates for different students within your course by clicking +Add.
- Click Save & Publish when you have finished editing your quiz settings.
Once your quiz has been published, Canvas allows you to add extra attempts, time extensions, and to allow students to access their quiz results again.
For instructions on adding additional attempts, please see our helpdoc: How do I add another quiz attempt?
Please reach out to lmssupport@masters.edu if you need any assistance!
