Is there a way to delete a student's attempt on a quiz? I know you can allow multiple attempts, but I would like to clear the attempt completely from grades. Is that possible?
Hi @jcox1 - Basically, the answer is no...at least for now. About all you can do is, as you said, allow multiple attempts or (in the case of a quiz that allows only one attempt) to give an individual student another attempt, as covered here: Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
There is, however, a Feature Idea that is still open for voting that is currently on the Product Radar. It does not hurt to register your vote here: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1479-delete-quiz-attempts , since there is still no firm date/timeframe indicated for this, though as you may be aware, the Canvas engineers are quite busy with Priority: Quizzes.Next .
I hope this helps, Jo!
Hold the fort! I added .1 to the marks and it took that as the score.
This should not be marked solved! There is nothing solved here. I am having to manually make grade adjustments rather than letting the system run because of unintentional submissions/issues. Power outages, internet glitches, accidental submissions, errors in pages loading, all reasons why we should be able to exclude an attempt from counting in the grade book. You don't want to make it so we can delete an attempt, I get that, but at least make an option to exclude the attempt from counting towards the student's grade.
why on earth would they not want to "allow" a teacher to delete an attempt? It is my class and I am fully capable of making the decision to delete an attempt.
Because I let my students "see" the correct answers AND the explanations - unintentional submissions result in a compromise of the entire test. Totally unacceptable.
It's actually bordering on if not criminal behavior for Canvas (Instructure) to mark this as solved. Yes, money where our mouth is, but our instructors have NO CONTROL over which LMS they buy. They buy from who is selling.
As a disabled person who teaches a combination of online and in-person classes (simultaneous for some classes) under very difficult circumstances, if I accidentally publish something and a student takes the quiz, my options are:
- delete the quiz completely
- leave that single student with access to the quiz and ban everyone else from accessing it
Sometimes I think that the Canvas folks should do a bit of soul-searching about whether they are truly helping the higher-education community with their product. But, $$$ don't care, do they...
Adding another situation in which it is necessary to delete the attempt when you have the student retake a whole course because they failed it. We need to be able to delete the previous attempts from a previous term. the course was reset and the student was deleted and then re-enrolled and we didn't expect the old scores to be there.
I see that, but that solution doesn't address the issues we have raised and the specific and valid needs we have.
I is ridiculous that Canvas will not allow us to delete an attempt. I have students, both EC and Regular Ed, who accidently open attempts, accidently submit, etc.
Canvas needs to get with the program, ESPECIALLY since so many students have IEP, a legally binding document, that students get to take quizzes as many times as necessary to get a 60.
With the average mechanism, a student may have to take the quiz 8 or 9 times in order for the average to get that high.
And if we are in a MIXED and INCLUSIVE setting, we MUST be given the option to set ALL assignments for INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.
Nothing I can do will override the ungraded attempt mark, so I am not sure how the two students who did this will get their score. Has anything happened since October 2020?
This should not be a problem to delete attempts, but it is. Very Frustrated. Had recreate another test. The amount of extra time it took.
Now that "Build on Last Attempt" is a feature, the need to delete attempts is even more important. I caught two students cheating during a quiz, and would like for them to retake the quiz in its entirety. However, since I have selected "Build on Last Attempt," I can't have them start completely over without letting them get credit for the questions they cheated on. Being able to delete an attempt would completely solve this problem. Please add this feature!
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