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Built by Lea Phillips 2022. 
Some tools to help you start using Canvas New Quizzes or to help you up your quizzes game. 
(Spend less time grading!)
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Types of Questions

Student Result View

Creative Quizzes

GETTING STARTED

Standard Settings

Quizzes vs. Assignments

Reports

Stimulus

Item feedback

Moderate

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Canvas New Quiz Tips

Some tools to help you start using Canvas New Quizzes or to help you up your quizzes game. (Spend less time grading!)

Built by Lea Phillips 2022.

Things you should do (have green or checked):

  • Shuffle questions
  • Shuffle answers
  • One question at a time
  • Allow backtracking
  • Allow multiple attempts using the "highest" and "unlimited" settings
  • Restrict student view (see Student Result View tip)
The first three ensure that students see different questions from each other. This is a great limiter to cheating. The fourth and fifth may feel like you're not "giving them a rigorous quiz," but there is a reason to these. First, if the quiz was on paper and a later question helped trigger a memory of an answer to an earlier question they could go back and change it. (Thus, you allow the backtracking). The fifth is not going to make it just a "copy the right answers and fill them in," because of the restrictions that you've put on student view. Seriously, go check that tip out.

The Reports tab under the Build section allows teachers to see a variety of reports on their students. It breaks each question down by how many students answered which answer, so that you can quickly identify questions or concepts that need reteaching.

Canvas New Quizzes can be used in variety of interesting ways. The top three I've encountered are:

  1. Use the file upload combined with some questions to have students submit an assignment and reflect on it quickly.
  2. Use the ability to adjust points in the multiple choice questions to create a beginning of the year survey that makes every student feel like starting strong.
  3. Use the ability to give feedback at the end of questions to build an Escape Room module.

When you restrict the student result view in the settings, make sure you click:

  • Show points awarded (overall and per question)
  • Show points possible (overall and per question)
  • Show items and questions
    • Show student response
    • Indicate response as correct/incorrect
    • Show item feedback
DO NOT MARK "Show correct answer with incorrect response." That is where students can grab the right answers and quickly go back and fill them in.

Item feedback can be attached to any question for correct or incorrect answers. It's a great way to provide students a hint for their next time through the test. On the multiple choice questions each answer can have it's own feedback. This is how to make multiple choices work for you while also creating an in depth knowledge. To get students used to looking at the feedback including a "Text me a picture of a cat in the chat" is a great way to see who is actually looking at their feedback.

Canvas Quizzes vs. Assignments by Leah Phillips

  • Categorization
    • Allows the student to sort words into different categories. (Unfortunately no pictures yet)
    • Ex: Which of the following people were rebels and which were loyalists?
  • Essay
    • One of two that the computer cannot grade for you.
    • Empty text box, and you can include the rich text editor, spell check, institute word minimums and maximums.
  • File Upload
    • One of two the computer cannot grade for you.
    • Allows students to include any sort of file type (Power points, pictures/posters, and more).
    • File size limit 500 MB
  • Fill in the Blank
    • Three standard question types in one
    • May include more than one blank per question.
    • Use the mark below the tilde, above the tab, to create blanks.
    • Type in, Drop down selection box, word bank options
  • Formula
    • Math question.
    • The teacher tells the computer the basic problem (x+5) and also gives the computer a range of values that x could be (0<x<10) which allows different students to solve similar, but not identical questions.
  • Hot Spot
    • Visual question that the computer can check.
    • Sort of pin the tail on the donkey, type of thing.
    • Upload an image and indicate one location of any size on the picture that is the correct answer.
  • Matching
    • Standard type of question
    • Unfortunately no pictures yet.
    • Example: Words and definitions.
  • Multiple Choice
    • Standard question type
    • May include different point values for different answers.
    • May include two or many answers.
  • Numeric
    • Standard question type
    • Can only be a typed number or decimal
  • Ordering
    • Put a list of words in order.
    • Great for timelines, chemistry, or processes.
  • True/False
    • Standard question type

This is a type of question in the quiz. However, it is not one that the students answer. Rather it is one that allows you to put in something for students to use to answer questions. For example, a reading passage, an image or a video. The questions can appear below the stimulus or to the right of the stimulus. In addition, when the One Question at time setting is one, the stimulus will remain for all of the questions that are next to the stimulus in the Build portion of the quiz.

When creating a quiz there are 3 things to remember:

  1. Stick to a naming system.
  2. The points on the front page need to match the points on the Build page, or Canvas will attempt funny math.
  3. You must give it a due date.
Then click Build, and move onto Question Types or Settings.

The Moderate Tab under the Build section allows teachers to see exactly how long individual students took on any question (including whether or not they even opened the quiz). It also shows the answers there. It's a great way to monitor students progress and to provide students with evidence of "Yes, I know you rushed through it. You only took ten seconds on this question." It will also record how many times a student has taken the quiz, and their timings for each quiz.

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