Does anyone know of an API call that can return the number of remaining attempts a student has for a quiz? Basically I'm looking for how to return the "attempts left" number that is on the "Moderate Quiz" screen using the API.
Hi Matt,
It looks like there is an actual attempts_left indicator when you return the submissions for a quiz and even when you return a specific quiz submission. It doesn't look like its in the API docs but it does get returned when I make a submissions call. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/quiz_submissions.html#method.quizzes/quiz_submissions_api.index for more information.
For students that do not have a submission you could run a simple check to see if their user_id matches any submissions and if they don't you could then get the allowed_attempts from the quiz settings, https://usu.instructure.com/doc/api/quizzes.html#method.quizzes/quizzes_api.show, and just display that till they have a submission then fall back on the attempts_left from the submission.
Hope that point you in the right direction.
Tyler
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