Wiki Page, Curso Canvas: Quizzes and Surveys

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2016-07-05T18:33:54-06:00

Tip

You can import a quiz from Examview.

You can have a quiz pull a designated number of questions from a group which can result in students getting different questions each time they take the test.

Math teachers will like using the formula quiz questions.

Guides
Quiz Guides

4 types of Quizzes

There are 4 types of quizzes:

A graded quiz is the most common quiz, and Canvas automatically creates a column in the Gradebook for any graded quizzes you build.

A practice quiz is ungraded and can be used as a learning tool to help students see how well they understand the course material. Practice quizzes do not appear in the syllabus or Gradebook.

A graded survey allows you to give students points for completing the survey; however, it is not graded based on right or wrong answers.

An ungraded survey allows you to obtain opinions or other information from students; however, students do not receive a grade for their responses. Ungraded surveys do not appear in the syllabus or Gradebook.

Quiz Settings

How do you want to administer this assessment? Is it timed? Does it have to be taken on campus or can students take it at home? Below are the quiz options:

Shuffle answers

Time limit

Multiple attempts

Let students see their quiz responses

Show correct answers

Restrict this quiz (by password, by IP address)

Show one question at a time

See this page on how to Maximize Your Quiz Security for further explanations of quiz settings and recommendations.

You can use the Rich Text Editor to include links to websites, record or upload videos, insert content from Khan Academy of Slideshare, etc. into a question. You can use the Content Selector to includes links to other pages in our course, modules, files, or embed an image you've uploaded.

Questions

To Bank or Not to Bank

How questions are added to a quiz will affect how the instructor will grade and maintain the quiz.

Not Using a Question Bank
Instructors can create questions directly in a quiz (Links to an external site.). However, the questions are then automatically stored in a question bank called Unfiled Questions. This will be make it difficult to reuse the questions. Instructors can move questions to another bank (Links to an external site.) at a later time. However, this workflow is not the best. This option is not recommended unless you know you will never want to use these questions again in another quiz.

Using a Question Bank
Instructions can create a quiz using questions from a question bank. A question bank is a question repository. It can be bookmarked and shared across multiple courses. It exists outside of the quiz. The questions will appear on the quiz in the order in which the instructor sequences them. This allows instructors to easily reuse questions in additional quizzes and in other courses. It also allow questions to be aligned with a standard/outcome.

Please note that if the quiz iss populated with questions through the Find Questions link, updating the questions in the question bank will NOT UPDATE the corresponding question(s) in the quiz.

Question Groups

Question groups reside within quizzes and their two-fold purpose is to organize questions within a quiz and present the questions in the group in randomized order. A question group does not exist outside of the quiz in which it has been created. This allows random questions from a group to be selected for the quiz. (i.e. "Select 5 questions from the Chapter 4 question group of 20 questions).

Please note that if a quiz is populated by linking a question group to a question bank, changes made to the question bank WILL UPDATE the corresponding question(s) in the quiz.

Questions types

There is a large variety of question types including: multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, fill-in-multiple-blanks, Likert scale, multiple answers, multiple dropdown, matching, numerical answer, essay, file upload, formula quiz question with a single variable, or simple formula quiz question.

Moderation and Statistics

Moderation

Once you have published a quiz, the quiz sidebar shows the Moderate Quiz link, which allows you to moderate the quiz for each student in your course.

On the Moderate Quiz page you can view the progress of student submissions and view the number of quiz attempts each has taken.

You can also grant students extra attempts, grant extra time for timed quizzes, and manually unlock quiz attempts.

If you edit a quiz after students have opened it, they will not see the changes. To remedy this, you can regrade multiple choice, true/false, or multiple answer questions in their quiz (if the questions are in a question group), use SpeedGrader to adjust their score as needed, or allow them to retake it.

As long as the students don't go past the due date and time limit (or click the Submit Quiz button, they can go in and out of a quiz as much as they want. If you have the quiz password protected and you only want students to be able to access the test when they are in your presence, can you change the password so that the next time they try to access the quiz they will have to obtain the new password from you. For example, if your students have to break for lunch and will resume the quiz after lunch, you could change the password for the quiz (after the students have accessed it before lunch, right before they leave for lunch) so that they could not access during lunch.

Results and Statistics

You can view student quiz results by viewing the quiz results page or moderating the quiz. If a student has multiple quiz attempts, you can also view results of all attempts..

You can view quiz statistics for quizzes that have at least one submission. Instructors can view an entire quiz summary that shows all score percentages, quiz average score, high score, low score, standard deviation, and average time of quiz completion.

If a student had multiple assignment attempts, you can view past attempts in SpeedGrader. Quiz stats will only display the kept score for the student (highest score or latest score).

You can view a breakdown of each question in the quiz. Each question displays answer bars relating to the percentage of each answer choice.

Quiz statistics for True/False and Multiple Choice quiz questions include an item discrimination index, which attempts to look at a spread of scores and reflect differences in student achievement.

Mobile App

If a quiz contains Essay, Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, or True/False questions, the quiz questions can be viewed within the app.

If the quiz contains any unsupported questions or features, users will be redirected to the web version of Canvas. Unsupported questions and features include:

fill in multiple blanks questions

formula questions

file upload questions

matching questions

numerical answer questions

multiple drop downs questions

one-question-at-a-time quizzes

quizzes with passcode restrictions

quizzes with IP address restrictions

Video Tutorials

In this video, you will learn the basics of Quiz Settings in the Quiz creation process.

Note: For clarification about locking a quiz and quiz result access, please review the lesson on access dates.

In this video, you will learn the basics of Quiz Questions in the Quiz creation process.