Manually Unlocking a Quiz for Another Attempt in Canvas

Say a student gets kicked out of a quiz in Canvas and they only had one attempt. What do you do? You can manually unlock that quiz for that specific student using the method below:

1. Click on the quiz then select “Moderate this quiz” on the far right.
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2. Then click on the pencil/edit button on the far right directly across from the student you would would wish to moderate.
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3. Then add any extra attempts into the box and click save. This box is for each extra attempt, all students are given 1 by default.
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Note:If the quiz has passed its accessibility date (like you had it disappear already) then you will need to click the “manually unlock the quiz for the next attempt” checkbox.