How to provide students with feedback to essay questions (in Canvas)?

I am facing difficulty in providing students with the correct answers for essay questions that are included as part of our weekly class quizzes and assignments. I want to have the correct answers presented to the students after they complete the submission so it can make it easier on them to learn the material and easier for me to do the grading. However, this option does not seem to be available in Canvas for essay questions, am I correct? For example, I noticed that when I have numerical questions or T/F and multiple-choice type of questions, we can give feedback for correct answers (green box) and feedback for incorrect answers (in red comments box). This option is not available for essay questions as it seems and the grey box 'general answer comments' I am afraid would show up on the students' side while they are reading the question as a hint.

In other words, how can I let students who complete essay questions get the correct answers/feedback AFTER they complete their quiz and not during their quiz time.

Thank you in advance for any helpful tips!

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Chris_Hofer

Hello @LamisJomaa ...

The gray "General answer comments" box for essay questions in the Classic Quizzes interface would not display any text you put in there to students while they are taking the quiz. If you take a look at the bottom of this Guide:

How do I create an Essay quiz question? - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

...you can see that the example displayed there includes some information for students that their essay response will be graded shortly. I'm sure you could put in some other text in there if you wanted...such as feedback about the question they had just answered. You could easily test this out in your own course by creating an unpublished quiz with an essay question and general answer comments. Then, preview what the quiz looks like and try submitting it to see what happens.

Please keep us posted here in the Community. Thanks, and good luck!

LamisJomaa

Chris - Thank you for your quick response. Based on the info and link you provided, the general comments section for essay questions can be used to give general comments for students immediately after they submit their answers. If I want to delay that students see the graded/correct answers or feedback to their responses till after a specific due date (when all students completed their work), then it does not seem to be a feature that is available in Canvas for essay questions. The numerical questions and the T and F or MCQ questions have the option of adding feedback specific to correct and incorrect answers.

I wished that such an option would have been available for the essay questions so we can enter the feedback to students, and they can only view it after the due date has passed. Any other suggestions??

LamisJomaa

Thank you for all this helpful info and the link. I will definitely check out the new quizzes and see if we can have access to it at our campus and explore these features. Hopefully one of these options will work!

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