Quiz

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Quiz

quiz_submitted

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:

{
  "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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