Canvas: Locking & Unlocking a Quiz

Locking a Quiz

For quizzes that are assigned to Everyone, after saving your quiz, and prior to publishing it, you can lock your quiz through the options (3 dots) menu by selecting Lock this Quiz Now. The quiz title and instructions will be visible to students, but they will be unable to open it. This option sets the “Available Until” time as the current time – making the quiz unavailable to students. Note that this setting does not change any of the scenarios in Student View of Quiz Results.

Teacher view:

Student view (after the quiz has been published):

Note: as the quiz instructions are visible for locked quizzes, you will not want to provide too many details in the instructions (such as a downloadable pdf or Word document with the exam questions.)

Unlocking a Quiz

To unlock a quiz (and change or remove the “Available Until” time), open the options menu (3 dots) and select Let Students Take this Quiz Now.

You will be presented with a pop-up window asking how long you would like to unlock the quiz for. You can unlock it indefinitely (no time limit) or until a specific date and time.