Last revised: 2026-05-13

Individual students can sometimes be entitled to extended writing time. It may also happen that a student has experienced technical problems during a test and can substantiate this in such a way that you as the teacher decide to give the student a new attempt. Alternatively, if the student has canceled the attempt and not submitted, then you as the teacher can submit this attempt.

Assign extended writing time and extra attempts to individual students

Open the quiz and click the Build button at the bottom of the page.

Select the Moderate tab.

By clicking on the pencil on the right after each student, you can add extra time for the individual student, assign extra attempts beyond the number of attempts you have set for the entire quiz, and reduce the number of answer options when there are at least four answer options.

Morderate

These settings are available after you click the pen:

Moderate step 2

The student will see a banner at the top of the page stating that their time limit has been extended. The remaining time will be updated at the same time.

Visar för studenten att de fått förlängd tidsgräns

Extended writing time

Extended writing time here is linked to the Quiz Time Limit (timer) function. So if the default setting is, for example, 10 minutes to complete the quiz, you can give an individual student 20 minutes for the same quiz by giving 10 minutes extra.

NOTE! The total open time must be set to at least correspond to the extended writing time. Set a later end time for everyone or assign a different time to students who need a time adjustment.

It is always the end time in the quiz's task settings that will apply even if the time adjustment has not been exceeded.

Assign Access

Extended writing time for all quizzes throughout the course

If a student always needs extended writing time, in all quizzes in this course, this can be set by clicking on the student's name in the Moderate view. The setting applies only to this course.

Choose between:

Give additional time
Remove time limit (unlimited)
Time limit multiplier

More time for multiple quizzes in the course

Allocate extra attempts

If a student needs an extra attempt on the quiz, due to technical problems for example, within regular opening hours, this can be assigned by clicking on the Pen and adding the desired number of extra attempts. See image above.

Log

The log allows you to see the time when the student has answered the various questions. NOTE! There may be a slight delay in the log, so the time shown in the log might not be accurate.

If the student has an ongoing attempt that has not yet been submitted, this is indicated by a link with the text In progress.

View log & In progress

If you click on the In Progress link, the log will be displayed and a button will be available to submit the student's quiz. If there is a specified end time for the quiz, it will automatically be submitted when the time is up.

Submit this attempt

More information about the Moderate page on Canvas (Instructures) website