This guide walks you through how to set up quiz accommodations in Canvas’ New Quizzes interface, such as time limit multipliers, extended due dates, extra attempts, and reduced answer questions.

Setting Different Due Date/Time

1. Navigate to the Assignments or Quizzes area of your Canvas course.
2. Select the three dots on the right side of the quiz listing, and select “Edit.”
3. Scroll down to the “Assign To” section, select the gray “+ Assign To” button, and indicate which student(s) should have a different due date/time set for the quiz, and set the different due date/time.

Optionally, set an “Available from” date if you would like to set when the quiz should be made available to the student(s) Setting a date in “Available until” will prevent students from seeing results.

You can complete this step multiple times by selecting the gray “+ Assign To” button.



You can create Differentiation tags, such as “extended due date”, for multiple students and then assign that differentiation tag a due date. This can make it easier to set due date accommodations without having to remember which student had the accommodation.



Unless otherwise set, all other students will receive the due date/time and available from/until settings, which can be found under the “Everyone else” box.

4. Select the blue “Save” button.

This must be configured for each quiz.

Extended Time or Reduced Answer Questions

1. Navigate to the Assignments or Quizzes area of your Canvas course.
2. Select the three dots on the right side of the quiz listing, and select the blue “Build” button.
3. Select the "Moderate" tab at the top of the quiz.
4. Select the student’s name.
5. Set their time multiplier accommodation or reduced answer question setting. This results in one incorrect answer for each multiple choice question that has 4 or more possible answers.

This can be configured once will automatically be applied, for that student, for every quiz in the course.

Extra Attempt, or a One-time Time Limit Adjustment:

1. Navigate to the Assignments or Quizzes area of your Canvas course.
2. Select the three dots on the right side of the quiz listing, and select the blue “Build” button.
3. Select the "Moderate" tab at the top of the quiz.
4. Select the pencil icon to the far right of a student’s name.
5. Add additional attempts here, or add a one-time only time adjustment, such as an extra few minutes if someone is late to class or removing the time limit one time.

This must be configured for each quiz.

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