Canvas Quiz Submission Events API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Canvas LMS REST Quiz Submission Events API
  version: v1
  summary: The complete Canvas LMS REST API, converted from the Swagger 1.2 documents Instructure publishes under https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/.
  description: The Canvas LMS REST API covers courses, assignments, quizzes, grades, users, enrollments, accounts, files, modules, rubrics, submissions, SIS imports, LTI, analytics and account administration.
  contact:
    name: Instructure Canvas
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
  license:
    name: AGPL-3.0
    url: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://canvas.instructure.com/api
  description: Instructure-hosted Canvas (canvas.instructure.com)
- url: https://{canvas_host}/api
  description: Any Canvas instance; Canvas is multi-tenant and self-hostable, so the host is the institution's Canvas domain.
  variables:
    canvas_host:
      default: canvas.instructure.com
      description: Your institution's Canvas hostname, e.g. school.instructure.com
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Quiz Submission Events
  x-resource: quiz_submission_events
  externalDocs:
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/quiz_submission_events.html
paths:
  /v1/courses/{course_id}/quizzes/{quiz_id}/submissions/{id}/events:
    post:
      tags:
      - Quiz Submission Events
      operationId: submit_captured_events
      summary: Submit captured events
      description: 'Store a set of events which were captured during a quiz taking session.


        On success, the response will be 204 No Content with an empty body.'
      parameters:
      - name: course_id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      - name: quiz_id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      - name: id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                quiz_submission_events:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items: {}
                  description: The submission events to be recorded
              required:
              - quiz_submission_events
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                quiz_submission_events:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items: {}
                  description: The submission events to be recorded
              required:
              - quiz_submission_events
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success, no content returned
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/quiz_submission_events.html
    get:
      tags:
      - Quiz Submission Events
      operationId: retrieve_captured_events
      summary: Retrieve captured events
      description: Retrieve the set of events captured during a specific submission attempt.
      parameters:
      - name: course_id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      - name: quiz_id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      - name: id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      - name: attempt
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        required: false
        description: 'The specific submission attempt to look up the events for. If unspecified,

          the latest attempt will be used.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success, no content returned
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/quiz_submission_events.html
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Canvas OAuth2 access token sent as "Authorization: Bearer <token>". See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html'
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: Canvas OAuth2. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html and https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth_endpoints.html
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth
          tokenUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
          refreshUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
          scopes: {}
externalDocs:
  description: Canvas LMS REST API Documentation
  url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
x-generated-from: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json
x-provenance:
  method: derived
  derived_by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline (Swagger 1.2 -> OpenAPI 3.1 conversion)
  source: openapi/_original/swagger-1.2/*.json (144 verbatim first-party Swagger 1.2 documents)
  source_url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json
  fetched: '2026-09-05'
  http_status: 200