Canvas For Practice

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Thequiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. You can also use quizzes to conduct and moderate exams and assessments, both graded and ungraded. The steps to create quiz content are the same for each quiz type.

A graded quiz is the most common quiz, and Canvas automatically creates a column in the grade book for any graded quizzes you build. After a student takes a graded quiz, certain question types will be automatically graded. You can also view quiz results for graded quizzes in SpeedGrader or from the quiz results page.

A practice quiz can be used as a learning tool to help students see how well they understand the course material. Practice quizzes are not a graded quiz type. Students do not receive a grade for practice quizzes, even though the quiz results display the number of points earned in the quiz. Practice quiz results do not display on the student grades page and must be viewed from the submission details page. You can also view quiz results for practice quizzes.

A graded survey allows the instructor to give students points for completing the survey, but it does not allow the survey to be graded for right or wrong answers. Graded surveys have the option to be anonymous. You can also view survey results for graded surveys from the quiz details page or in SpeedGrader.

An ungraded survey allows you to get opinions or other information from your students, but students do not receive a grade for their responses. With ungraded surveys, you can make responses anonymous. Ungraded surveys are not a graded quiz type. You can also view survey results for ungraded surveys.

The lack of practice quizzes is a major issue for me and other colleagues because, as language teachers, we rely massively on quizzes (especially this year that we are set to be doing a lot of our teaching online). I know that it is possible to set the New Quizzes so that they are worth 0 points and do not count towards the grades, but the fact that they HAVE to be set as an assignment creates a huge problem: without practice quizzes, every single quiz will appear in the syllabus and I would have at least 6 quizzes per week in a 24 week course! This will get very messy, very fast.

I know I can just hide the course summary in the syllabus, but that still would leave us with the problem of students having tens of confusing "assignments" on their calendar (I believe they still would appear under "undated"). Also, I just discovered that hidding the course summary hides the mini calendar and assignment weighting information on the right side of the page too, which renders the syllabus pretty much useless!

Being able to just have the quizzes as practice and add them to the modules where necessary without them being categorised as assignments is the ideal, as it is the case with Classic Quizzes. They may not be as fancy, but they are much more user friendly.

I cannot understand why the choice was made to remove this essential option - a newer engine should offer the same features as the prior one plus additional ones, not less! I really hope this is something that will be implemented soon.

I just realised this also affects the grades page quite badly. So even if I give up on the Syllabus features by hidding the course summary and calendar, the students will still have to scroll through the tens of non-graded quizzes in order to be able to see their exam grades!

Practice quizzes are not impacted by the late penalty at all and do not show up in the grade book. Either the practice quiz function needs to expand to new quizzes or the old quiz engine needs to be retained for practice quizzes.

Exactly - thank you, @Steven_S ! The elimination of practice quizzes affects a lot of aspects in Canvas and has a big impact on how you can and cannot set up a course. It is very limiting and has a lot of negative consequences that I don't think were thought through.

Thanks for bringing this up, @Stef_retired . There is an obvious dearth in the New Quizzes feature set compared to old quizzes or quizzes in any other LMS for that matter. It is inexplicable to me why Instructure continues prioritise minor features (such as history in the latest release) over much more impactful changes such as this one. Let's hope for someone is reading these threads.

I agree with the above. Practice Quizzes and "survey" (ungraded) options are wonderful tools that we loose in New Quizzes. I don't want to send my students out of Canvas to complete a survey or practice. Thank you.

I hate New Quizzes, honestly. I don't like the "look." I think it's harder for teachers to edit and grade. No lockdown browser available. No practice quizzes and survey options? What else am I missing?

@rislis I also need practice quizzes, and I hope this idea will result in that function being added sooner rather than later. For now, my practice quizzes are still in classic quizzes to avoid the problem.

You might like to know that lockdown browser now works with new quizzes. As a result I have been able to transfer my graded quizzes to new quizzes. I do not find it dramatically more difficult to use - except if I start a question by creating the wrong question type, or start writing my prompt in the question title box. Those work flow steps will require some time to get used to, but classic quizzes had quirks we got used to also.

I assigned a practice quiz and it's being graded, but the speedgrader tool is not showing up so I can give students feedback. Is this because it's a practice quiz? How can I make the change now since students are already working on the practice quiz?

While you cannot provide feedback within the quiz itself, you could provide feedback both generally through an announcement, discussion, conference or even as a "review page"; or to individual students through the Inbox.

I especially find the Question Breakdown to be useful for identifying which items students found challenging, and if you hover over the "respondents" links, they identify which students chose a particular response providing an opportunity for individual feedback.

Even though you have a Practice Quiz and there are point assigned to the questions, it's not technically being graded. In my testing, the only way you can get access to the SpeedGrader for the quiz is if you change it from a Practice Quiz to a Graded Quiz. You should be able to change this by editing the quiz details and changing the "Quiz Type" from Practice Quiz to Graded Quiz.

It important that you turn on the Honorlock Practice Quiz and encourage your students to take the practice quiz before they attempt your "real" quiz. The instructions below guide you through enabling the Practice Quiz that has created by Honorlock.

This is an example of text which might be used for Student Instructions:

"This is a CLOSED note exam. Using your e-book or textbook is NOT ALLOWED. You may use two sheets of scratch paper. You must remain in front of your computer for the duration of the exam. NO BATHROOM BREAKS. Cell phones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, and any other electronic devices are NOT PERMITTED. Failing to follow these instructions could result in a violation."

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One of the main reasons that I wrote Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills was to show that hiring can be an agent of change. More than just "staffing teams," approaching hiring in a meaningful way can have a great impact on our personal growth, team dynamics and even shape our organisational culture.

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