Add Reading Time to a Quiz?

Hi all. I suspect I know the answer to this as I cannot find a way to do it in quiz settings and I can find no info in the forum or in an online search, but you never know your luck...

So, is there a way to add reading time to a quiz, where students can see the questions but are not given the ability to respond to the questions?

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NickChevalierUT

Hi @TracyGetts! I don't know of a way, with either Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes, to set aside time within a quiz for reading without allowing students to begin selecting answers.

A potential workaround you might consider is creating a separate page in your course with the reading material, and then have the quiz questions exist in a separate quiz. If you wanted to restrict the timing on these items, you could edit the availability dates of the page and quiz so that students can only view the reading beginning at a certain time, and then make the quiz available beginning X minutes later, which I believe achieves a similar effect to what you're looking for. Do you think something like that might work?

TracyGetts

Many thanks Doug. It is a functional workaround but I still maintain it's cludgy (not having a go at you or the workaround, frustrated at canvas for poor design). I have to publish 2 separate items; a page with just the questions and then the quiz itself. Students have to navigate to 2 separate areas. Again, with invigilators who may know little about canvas, this could cause issues. Also, your last sentence says it all - these are high school students and they are notoriously poor at following instructions.

atbarbary

Came here looking for the same thing Tracy. This is something that would be quite valuable for my institution too, especially as digital assessments are ramping up (invigilated, on-campus, digital examinations). I have been informed that Cadmus Quizzes has implemented a reading time feature, however, would like it to be included in the native quiz engines. Well, new quizzes at least.

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