How can I download a list of all students' quiz durations (or start times)?

I need a list of how long each student takes to complete a quiz. Students start at different times, so submission times (which are easily downloaded) are not sufficient.

My class is large, so opening each student's quiz log, typing the start time into a spreadsheet, and computing the difference between start time and submission time is not a viable solution.

How can I obtain a list of all students' individual quiz durations (or start times)?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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Gabriel33

Are you familiar with the Canvas API? The start time is a property of the quiz submissions there: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/quiz_submissions.html

Alternatively, if you prefer to deal with HTML, if you go to the Moderate Quiz page and choose to "inspect" any student's line in the browser, there is a "data-started-at" property for each student, which can more easily be captured. A tampermonkey script can also probably make that visible to the user.

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