Learn: How to Provide CAE Accommodations in New Quizzes
Overview
In this section of the module you will:
- Learn how to access the Quiz Moderate settings page to provide quiz accommodations for your students.
- Review the key differences between the New Quiz Accommodation setting vs. the Moderate setting and understand when to use one setting over the other.
Let's get started.
The Quiz Accommodation and Moderate settings are located in the Quiz Moderate settings page. To access the Quiz Moderate settings page, follow the steps below.
Access the Quiz Moderate settings page
To access the Quiz Moderate page, follow the steps below.
- Select the Quizzes link in your course left navigation menu.
- Choose any quiz you created with the New Quizzes tool. Once you set accommodations for one quiz, they will automatically apply to all quizzes in the course that were created using the New Quizzes tool.
- Click on the "Edit" button for the selected quiz and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
- Click on the "Build" button in the bottom section of the page.
- In the Build menu, select "Moderate" to access the Quiz Moderate page, where you can set up quiz accommodations for specific students.
Accommodations vs. Moderate settings
The Moderate settings page provides a lot of information to the instructor, including: a list of students in the course, links to each quiz attempt, the student’s score, attempt logs, quiz accommodations, and the moderate button.
In this module, we will focus mostly on the Accommodations and Moderate options.
Accommodations
To access the Accommodation settings, click on the pencil icon under the Accommodations heading.
In New Quizzes, the Accommodations setting provides instructors 3 options to give additional time or remove the time limitation on exams.
- Give additional time: Instructors can specify extra time in hours and/or minutes for individual students.
- Remove time limit (unlimited): This option removes any time limitation set for the quiz.
- Time limit multiplier: Instructors can multiply a new time limit based on the existing time limit for the quiz. This is useful for accommodations like time and a half. For example, if a quiz has a 30-minute time limit, applying a time-and-a-half multiplier will give the student 45 minutes to complete the quiz.
When instructors use the Accommodations setting, the accommodations are carried over to all the other New Quizzes in the course. This is important to note as this setting can be a huge time saver for faculty who need to provide students accommodations on all quizzes.
To learn more about setting Accommodations for students using New Quizzes, review the following resource:
How do I add accommodations for a student in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.
Moderate settings
As we noted above, when instructors use the Accommodations setting to provide students extra time accommodation quizzes, these settings are copied to all other New Quizzes in the course.
Conversely, the Moderate setting will only apply to the quiz where the setting is applied. Instructors can use the moderate setting to provide extra time and attempts for individual students.
To access the Moderate setting, click on the Moderate button.
Use the Moderate setting to give the student extra attempts and provide additional time or remove the time limitation on the exam.
Another feature of the Moderate option is the ability instructors have to reopen a student’s most recent quiz attempt. When reopening a quiz for a student, a warning message will display to inform you that the student can resume the quiz where they left off. This is a handy feature as sometimes students may run into technical issues while taking a quiz. The option to reopen the quiz for a student will allow the student to continue to where they left off in the quiz.
To learn more about using the Moderate option to provide individual students extra time and attempts on a quiz or how to re-open a quiz for a student, please review the following resource:
How do I moderate a student's quiz attempt in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.
Accommodations vs. Moderate settings
| Accommodation setting | Moderate setting | |
|---|---|---|
| Provide extra time |
Yes Options include:
|
Yes Options include:
|
| Provide extra attempts | No | Yes |
| Re-open the quiz for the student to continue where they left off | No | Yes |
| When would I use one setting over the other? |
The accommodation settings affect all New Quizzes in the course. When you provide time accommodations for individual students, those accommodations are saved on all New Quizzes in the course. |
The Moderate setting in New Quizzes applies to one quiz at a time, so if you provide accommodations like extra time or additional attempts for a student, they will only be specific to that quiz. To grant the same accommodations in other quizzes, you must reapply the settings separately for each quiz. The Moderate setting also has the option to Reopen a quiz for a student for a particular quiz. |