Before and After: Setting Up Quizzes and Managing Submissions

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Building and administering quizzes in Canvas can range from simple to complex, depending on all of the details. To simplify the process, use the follow checklists with tips and tricks when creating, distributing, and grading quizzes 

Before Students Take a Quiz

 Build a quiz shell with the basic settings. You will want to include an access code in order to test your quiz. (If you will need to provide quiz time/length/attempt accommodations, do not yet set the Assign To dates.)

Shuffling answers, limiting time, limiting access to quiz results, showing one question at a time, locking questions that have been viewed, and using limited Assign To windows can increase academic integrity.

 Build your quiz questions. If you will be pulling questions from question banks, you may want to build those first. Question groups will allow for the randomization of question order and/or pulling questions from a pool.

Question groups linked to question banks cannot be regraded, so, you may want to use Find Questions to build a question group if you believe there is a chance you will need to make any corrections.

 Place your quiz. By default, quizzes will show on the Quizzes and Assignment pages, but you will need to add one/both of these to the course navigation in order for it to be available.

If you place a quiz in a module that is unpublished, it will not be available, even through Quizzes and Assignments. 

 Test your quiz by using Student View. Don’t forget to remove the access code after testing is complete.

Provide a low-/no-stakes quiz for students to test the quiz tool and the question types you will use.

 Set quiz accommodations by using Assign To windows and/or the Moderate Quiz feature.

Ensure Assign To windows account for extra time or attempts provided to students through Moderate Quiz.

 Check the Grade Posting Policy being applied to the quiz from the Gradebook. The default policy for courses is Manual.

Automatic Grade Posting is only recommended for quizzes that are low-stakes or provide multiple attempts. 

After Students Take a Quiz

 Grade any Essay or File Upload questions.

Releasing grades before grading all Essay and/or File Upload questions will cause students to see incomplete grades and can cause confusion.

 Remove quiz result access limitations set in the basic quiz settings.

If grades still have a Manual Posting Policy, this will not yet release results.

 Regrade questions as needed.

Only multiple choice, multiple answer, and true/false questions have an automatic regrading option, which is limited to changes in which answer is correct. All other regrading must be done manually.

 Post grades, If you used a Manual Posting Policy.

Posting can be limited to a single section if you decide to grade one section at a time.