I have a quiz set up as graded quiz for 40 points but I want to use that as extra credit. How can I do this? I do not have weighted categories it is straight point system Please advise.
The easiest way I can think of is to convert to weighted categories, put everything in one category worth 100%, and then put your EC quiz in its own category worth whatever percentage you want it to be. So for example, you have 1000 total points and you want the EC to be up to 40 more points, you could make the EC category worth 4%. Does that make sense?
Making an entire quiz worth extra credit isn't easy in Canvas if you are using a Points based gradebook. The following directions explain how to make this happen:
IMPORTANT: When copying the course it will copy it as a survey - so be sure to Edit and revert it back to a graded quiz for the next term!!
Hope this helps!
I found an easier way to do this than the "solutions" suggest. When making a 'New' type of quiz, create the quiz normally with the total amount of points you want the extra credit quiz worth set on the first 'edit' page of the quiz, and make questions in the 'build' area of the quiz that total points to that first value. After all the students finish taking the quiz, you can then go back to that 'edit' page of the quiz and set the total point value that the quiz is worth at the top of the page to 0 points, and the students will keep the original score in an assignment/quiz that is worth 0 points in the gradebook.
If you were like me and first made the quiz worth 0 points, you can again wait for every student to finish taking the quiz, go to the 'edit' page of the quiz and set the quiz worth the amount of points you want it to be worth, then regrade every question in the quiz from one student's entry (it will regrade every student), and then go back and change the 'edit' page to 0 points and it should update correctly.
There you go. Cheers.
Can you make a new quiz worth zero points, but then manually override the score to give it a point value?
And BTW, hello, vartouhi.asherian --nice to see you again! I also wanted to call your attention to this related Canvas Feature Idea:" modifiedtitle="true" title=" Mark a Quiz as Extra Credit
Voting opens tomorrow (Cinco de Mayo)!
I like this workaround but won't students be worried if they get a bad grade on the extra credit quiz? It will affect their overall score.
I think one more step to this workaround would be to make sure you mute the quiz grade after it's published so the grade won't affect their overall score in a negative manner.
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