Canvas New Quizzes: Getting Started
New Quizzes is an advanced assessment tool which will be integrated within Canvas on 8th January 2024. It is designed to provide you with a more robust and flexible way to create and deliver assessments to students. New Quizzes offers a range of features and question types that go beyond the traditional assessment options available in Canvas Classic Quizzes.
This guide provides an overview of the new features, question types, potential pitfalls, and additional information related to Canvas New Quizzes.
Canvas New Quizzes is a product still in development and will be continually updated. You can view the New Quizzes Roadmap for more information and official updates.
Looking at New Quizzes
The New Quizzes assessment tool can be split into 4 main tabs – Build, Settings, Reports and Moderate.
Build The Build tab allows you to add the title of your quiz and any instructions you might have. You will mainly use the Build tab to populate your quiz [1] with the different question types available. Here, you can view your item banks [2], align the quiz to outcomes [3], preview the quiz from the student view [4], and navigate the quiz [5]. You can use the Rich Content Editor to format and add content to your quiz instructions. Settings You can adjust delivery settings for a quiz in New Quizzes. These options adjust the way that a quiz is delivered to students. Settings are mostly the same as classic quizzes but with a few additions. You can require a waiting period between student attempts, shuffle questions globally and shuffle answers per question. Reports You can view reports for a quiz created in New Quizzes. The reports available in New Quizzes are the Quiz and Item Analysis and the Outcomes Analysis. The Quiz and Item Analysis report includes statistics for the entire quiz and individual items, such as: It may take up to 48 hours for quiz information to display in New Quizzes reports. Moderation You can view student results for any quiz created in New Quizzes on the Moderation page. Quiz results also include a detailed log for each student. The Moderation Page displays a list of students in the course [1], their quiz attempts [2], the score for each attempt [3], the time for each attempt [4], attempt logs [5], and quiz accommodations [6]. To moderate a quiz for an individual student, click the Moderate button [7]. Moderation options include managing timer settings and reopening a student’s most recent attempt. To open SpeedGrader, click the SpeedGrader button [8]. With New Quizzes, you will have access to all the questions types Classic Quizzes has to offer, along with 4 new question types. Categorisation Categorization questions require students to place answers in the correct categories while ignoring all distractors. When Categorization questions are graded, students must categorize all items correctly to earn full points. There is not an option to assign partial credit for Categorization questions. Ordering In an Ordering question, students are required to place answers in a specific order. You can add top and bottom labels to the list to help students know in which order they should place their responses. When Ordering questions are graded, students must order all items correctly to earn full points. There is not an option to assign partial credit for Ordering questions. Hot Spot Hot Spot questions allow you to upload images and have your students identify a specific area in that image. The following image types can be used for Hot Spot questions: ⚠ Hot spot questions are not accessible for users who require keyboard-only access or screen readers. Stimulus When creating a quiz, you can insert stimulus content in New Quizzes. Stimulus content gives students a piece of content with associated questions. ⚠ Note: You can add stimulus content to an item bank. However, questions attached to the stimulus content are not automatically added to the item bank and must be added manually. Quiz Migration and Course copy Item Banks Grading Quizzes Question Types Other Known Issues
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