Review Quiz Logs in Canvas

While Canvas cannot lock down a student browser or computer, it can track students leaving a page. By turning on Quiz Log Auditing, you can review individual student start times, end times, and when they exit the Canvas quiz.
Reviewing student quiz logs can help discern if the student potentially left the quiz to view a website or application, review notes, etc. While this cannot guarantee collusion or academic dishonesty, this is a good feature to ensure students are not deviating from the quiz window during the exam.
Note settings for “Quiz Log Auditing” are on a per course basis. You must turn on “Quiz Log Auditing” for each course you want to review Quiz Logs for.

Enable Student Quiz Logs

Select "Settings" from your Canvas course.
Select "Feature Options"
Toggle "Quiz Log Auditing" option to "on" by clicking the "x". It will change to a green checkmark.

Review Student Quiz Logs

Once enabled, select "Quizzes" from your course navigation.
Select the "Quiz" to review.
Select the three dots next to "Edit"
Select "Show Student Quiz Results"
Select the name of a student.
Select "View Log"

The Action Log will share student actions during the exam including when they viewed and answered a question. Any access outside of the Canvas Quiz window is noted, however you do not receive where or what they went and reviewed.

Example of what a students Action Log will look like after taking a quiz in canvas.

Note: you can review the Action Log stream (by default) or the Action Log Table by selecting the “View Table” icon in the upper right corner of the page.

"View table" button highlighted in a red box under the students Session Information

A screenshot of the 'Answer Sequence' table

To learn more about managing new features for a course, see here.
To learn more about student quiz logs, see here.

Download this guide as a PDF