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How Do I Add Test Accommodations in Canvas?

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When you create a quiz or an exam in Canvas, you can provide your students with test accommodations once it has been published.  You can grant students extra attempts, extra time, or you can manually unlock attempts for individual students.

How to Add Test Accommodations in Classic Quizzes

  1. Enable and open Quizzes in the left Course Navigation
Canvas Course Navigation panel, with the "Quizzes" tab highlighted
  1. Open the quiz.
List of quizzes in the course
  1. Click on Moderate This Quiz on the top right.
"Moderate this Quiz" button, with a gear icon displayed to the left
  1. To access a specific student, use the Search People field.
Text field to enter a specific student's name
  1. Click on the pencil icon.
Pencil icon
  1. You can see the settings for all students, and add attempts for the individual student.  If your exam has a time limit, you will see the original time limit and you will be able to add additional minutes to the individual student.
Panel to grant a student extra attempts and additional time on a quiz
  1. Click Save.

How to Add Test Accommodations in New Quizzes

  1. Enable and open Quizzes in the left Course Navigation
Canvas Course Navigation panel, with the "Quizzes" tab highlighted
  1. Open the quiz.
List of quizzes in the course
  1. Click Moderate from the top menu.
Quiz menu with the "Moderate" tab highlighted
  1.  Use the Search People field to find individual students.
Text field to enter a specific student's name
  1. Click on the pencil icon next to the students' name under the Accommodations field.

By clicking within the Accommodations field, these settings will be applied to all course assessments for the student.  If you wish for accommodations for a single assessment, select Moderate on the far right.

Accommodations panel with a pencil icon displayed on the left
  1. Select the accommodations you wish to apply to the student.
Panel to select accommodations for a student, like removing or extending time limits
  1. Click Save

Need Additional Help?

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