Allowing Extra Time on a Canvas Assessment

These directions will allow you to comply with the additional time requirements that students may need as part of their academic accommodations.

Please note: The availability window contained in your Quiz's "available from/to" fields needs to be long enough to accommodate your students' additional time needs, or else the additional time will not be added to their quiz successfully.

• Expand the Canvas Quiz's availability window for the entire class. 
• Create a separate availability window for just your students with accommodations so they have a different (larger) availability window than the rest of the class. Our differentiated due dates article contains step-by-step directions for how to give individual students different availability and due dates. 

Step-by-Step

1. Select Quizzes on your course Navigation menu.
   
   
   
   
2. On the Quizzes page, locate the published quiz whose time you want to adjust for a student. Click on the quiz's title.
   
   
3. Select the Moderate This Quiz option that displays in the upper right corner.
   
   
   
   
4.  On the Moderate Quiz page, locate the student(s) for whom you want to adjust the quiz time. Check the grey box to the left of each student who you wish to give extra time. Then, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Change Extensions for x Selected Students.
   
   
   
   
5. On the Student Extensions pop-up window, enter the extra time in minutes that you want your student(s) to have for each attempt. E.g., if the quiz has a 30-minute time limit, but you want to give 50% extra time, then type in 15 minutes.
   
   
   
   
6. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page.