# Quiz

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## Quiz

### quiz\_submitted <a href="#quiz_submitted" id="quiz_submitted"></a>

**Definition:** The event is emitted anytime a user submits a quiz assignment in Canvas \[old quizzes].

**Trigger:** Triggered when a user submits a quiz assignment \[old quizzes].

#### Payload Example:

```json
{
  "metadata": {
    "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
    "context_account_id": "21070000000000123",
    "context_id": "21070000000100123",
    "context_role": "StudentEnrollment",
    "context_sis_source_id": "44942121",
    "context_type": "Course",
    "event_name": "quiz_submitted",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:33.388Z",
    "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
    "http_method": "POST",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/100123/quizzes/2223333/take/questions/47464543",
    "request_id": "11394325-4220-4a39-8237-f198d193d393",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000123",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "f63324b4e2a0841cbbe2b48abbccedb453becf36.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "01314161-1afc-0f2f-ffbf-1f31f5f0f972",
    "session_id": "dc29809b38908fe0890a8098b8982211",
    "time_zone": "Pacific/Honolulu",
    "url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/100123/quizzes/2223333/submissions?user_id=987123",
    "user_account_id": "21070000000000123",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
    "user_id": "21070000000987123",
    "user_login": "oxana",
    "user_sis_id": "1243245"
  },
  "body": {
    "quiz_id": "11210000002223333",
    "submission_id": "11210000013995723"
  }
}
```

#### Event Body Schema

| Field              | Description                           |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------- |
| **quiz\_id**       | The Canvas id of the quiz.            |
| **submission\_id** | The Canvas id of the quiz submission. |

Note: Timestamps will be in ISO8601 format, including an offset. Be sure to take that into account when parsing, since it’s unspecified which offset timestamps will use, and the offset may even change between different timestamps within a single event.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available [on Github](https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms).