Fixing QuizWiz for the enhanced Speedgrader

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I was going to make this a reply on the original QuizWiz post here, but it seems to be locked for new replies.

With the enhanced Speedgrader being enforced, I noticed that my QuizWiz user script stopped doing anything in Speedgrader. There was no automatic giving of full points, 0s for unanswered questions, etc.  Below are steps that should get it to working again (at least in Chrome), regardless of what features you have enabled/disabled.

* Open the Tampermonkey dashboard (you will need to be in Speedgrader) and click on your QuizWiz script.
* Click the pencil ("Edit") icon on the far right. 
* In the "//==UserScript==" header block, delete the line that says " // @noframes "
* Bump the version up 1 number so that Tampermonkey registers it as an update.  This is done on the line "// @version "
* Click on File—>Save in the top left of the Tampermonkey dashboard
* Reload Speedgrader.

You should now see things like full points button re-appear next to the Update Scores, etc.  There may still be some wonky issues due to the enhancements and you may have to disable some things you previously had enabled. But that should let you get back some basic functionality for using QuizWiz in the enhanced Speedgrader.

RTS_Canvas_Admin · Answer

We're not self-hosted either. This change worked for me for the purposes of auto-filling the grades boxes with full marks for answered questions and 0s for unanswered questions on quizzes. I was not using it for rubrics, advancing to next student, or anything like that.

James · Answer

For some reason, @ mentions aren't getting sent to me. I don't know how much else I've missed out on. I just saw Dallas' message from January. This one didn't come to me either; someone let my wife know and she forwarded it to me.

I cannot endorse this change. It might work for self-hosted people running the old SpeedGrader that Canvas removed last week. I cannot tell since Instructure hosts our instance and I don't have access to the old SpeedGrader anymore.

I tested the recommended change with a classic quiz with the new SpeedGrader with performance and usability enhancements that has been forced on Instructure-hosted sites and couldn't tell a difference. The speedgrader portion is completely different and not going to load without changing things dramatically. I've started doing that with another tool to replace the SpeedGrader functionality and the changes are substantial.

Even if you go to the quiz history page, which isn't loaded in an iframe, the code still doesn't work. Canvas has changed how quizzes work.

Someone made a pull request (PR) #66 on my GitHub Canvancement site that supposedly makes it work with the New SpeedGrader. I briefly tested it and it worked in that limited testing, but I haven't done enough testing to sign off on it yet. I just re-tested it now and it looks like the Classic Quiz enhancements are working as well. It still has the noframes directive in there because that's not the fix.

I also wouldn't recommend telling someone to bump the version number on software they don't maintain. If I was to release a minor fix, it may not get recognized because you bumped the version.

My ultimate goal is to separate Quiz functionality from SpeedGrader functionality. From what I heard (I don't have any tracking or way to know), many people using QuizWiz were doing it for the SpeedGrader enhancements, not the Classic Quiz capability. The Rubric Max Points script also suffered breakage from the forced upgrade on July 18th. That's how I know the complete fix is more than just changing a couple of CSS selectors. Rewriting that one is what morphed into a much bigger project and the start of the separation purposes.

Again, this might work for people who are self-hosted. I just have no way of testing that to comment on it.

RTS_Canvas_Admin · Answer

Done!  And thank you!  I'm not here as much as I used to, but I do still pop up from time to time. 😁