1. Canvas Day Quizzes and Question Banks
March 17, 2017
Jessie Driver, Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship
Louise Sharrar, Filippelli Institute for e-Education and Outreach

2. Topics Introduction Quiz Types Quiz Details Quiz Question Options
Option Pros/Cons
Option Steps
Option Likes & Requests
Requests for All Quizzes
Resources

3. Quiz Types Quiz Types Anonymous Opinion Poll Ungraded Survey
More:
Anonymous Opinion Poll
Captures opinions
Ungraded Survey
Participation Tracking
Captures opinions
Graded Survey
Low Stakes/No Stakes Practice Provides feedback on fact recall & analysis
Practice Quiz
High Stakes Evaluation (Exam)
Assesses fact recall & analysis
Quiz

4. Quiz Details Quiz Details To use the Testing Center: Basics:
Quiz Details
To use the Testing Center:
Confirm a date with Pollock
Create Event on calendar, ex: LA100 Sec001 - Mid-Term Exam, Insert: Time & Pollock testing center
Add Pollock staff as Designers - PSU IDs will be ed
Create quiz in Canvas and keep unpublished
Pollock will publish the quiz and add parameters of IP addresses on exam day
How does your quiz appear and function for students?
Basics:
To Maximize Security:
- Title
- Instructions
- Shuffle Answers
- Time Limit
- Quiz Type
- Assignment Group
- Allow Multiple Attempts
- Let Students See Their Responses
- Due Date
- Access Date
- Show One Question at a Time
(Lock after answering)

5. Quiz Question Options Quiz Question Options
The pro/con list coming up will help you choose the quiz building option that is best for you...
Option 1
Option 3
Option 2

6. Option 2: Build Questions in banks, and “copy” them into quizzes
Option 1: Build Questions strictly in quizzes, not using question banks
Pros
Cons
Instructors can SEE the questions being assessed.
Questions cannot be easily shared between quizzes.
Questions can be added outside of question groups to keep the order from being randomized.
Option 2: Build Questions in banks, and “copy” them into quizzes
Pros
Cons
Instructors can SEE the questions being assessed.
Questions must be manually updated in all instances.
Questions can be added outside of question groups to keep the order from being randomized.
Question can be easily copied into multiple quizzes from the bank.
Option 3:
Build Questions in banks, and “pull” them into quizzes
Pros
Cons
Questions can easily be updated in all instances from one MASTER location - the bank.
Instructors cannot easily SEE the questions from the quiz itself.
Linking to banks is only available through groups, which automatically randomize and assign equal points to all questions.

7. Option 1: Build questions in quizzes, not using banks
Quiz Question Options
Option 1: Build questions in quizzes, not using banks

8. Option 1: Build questions in quizzes, not using banks
Quiz Question Options
Option 1: Build questions in quizzes, not using banks
Step 3. Fill in your question details (title, type, points, question, and answers)
Step 4. Click Update Question and then click Save
Step 5. Preview

9. Option 1: Likes and Requests

10. Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Step 1. Edit the Quiz

11. Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Step 3: Highlight the desired question bank and select questions
Note: If your bank has more than 50 questions, you must first scroll to the bottom of the list and click to reveal the full list.

12. Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Step 4. Add questions to a Group or leave in [No Group]
Step 5. Click Save

13. Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 2: Build in banks, then “copy” into quizzes
Step 6. Preview

14. Option 2: Likes and Requests

15. Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Step 1. Edit the Quiz

16. Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes

17. Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Step 5. Highlight the appropriate question bank and click Select Bank

18. Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Quiz Question Options
Option 3: Build in banks, then “pull” into quizzes
Step 7. Preview

19. Option 3: Likes and Requests

20. Request for All Quiz Options
Request for All Quizzes
Request for All Quiz Options
Development Requests
Importing from ANGEL to Canvas
Grading Requests
Student Requests

21. Development Requests Request for All Quizzes
Questions are not numbered
Question details only show with 25 questions or less
The “Text Header” type will get randomized with other questions if placed in a group.
Question groups do not have an option to include instructions at the top of the group.
Matching, Fill-in-the-blank, Fill-in-Multiple Blanks Question: No Rich Text Editor in answer options
Multiple choice options are only radio buttons, so there is no way to offer the option “both A and B".
Shuffle answers can only be applied to all questions in a quiz

22. Importing from ANGEL to Canvas Requests
Request for All Quizzes
Importing from ANGEL to Canvas Requests
When you import ONE quiz with multiple question sets from ANGEL to Canvas, the questions are dumped into one Bank.
When importing True/False questions from ANGEL to Canvas, Canvas converts the question from True/False to Multiple Choice.

23. Grading Requests Request for All Quizzes
In the speedgrader, there is no way to sort by question, only by student
There is no ability to grade a file upload question using the Speedgrader. The file needs to be downloaded to grade it, unlike how the assignment submission allows for complex mark-up.
Quizzes do not provide a way to add a rubric to an essay (or oral)-type question. Rubrics can be applied to the overall quiz, but not specific questions.
If a question was especially confusing or if it was coded incorrectly, there is no way to automatically award everyone full points on that question (except by checking each submission individually).
No matter what settings you put on quizzes, students see the feedback (both correct and incorrect feedback as well as general feedback) as soon as they submit the quiz.

24. Student Requests Request for All Quizzes
The quiz time clock does not scroll down the quiz with the questions while students are taking quiz, so they need to scroll back up to the top of the page to check their time and may lose their spot when they scroll back down.
If a student is using a browser that is zoomed in, which is necessary for students with low visibility, the quiz questions get cut off on the right side of the screen. This causes an accessibility issue.
Practice Quizzes
Practice quiz shows as overdue on the Module page.
Practice quizzes do not show up on the syllabus or "to do" list.

25. Resources Resources Penn State Resources Canvas Resources
Canvas at Penn State
Accessibility & Usability at Penn State: Canvas Quizzes & Assignments
Canvas Documentation (Quiz SP16 Testing Tab)
Penn State Canvas Learning Center Module 5
Canvas Yammer Group
Quiz Options Handout
Quiz Options Cheat Sheet
Liberal Arts Canvas Quizzes Course Space
Canvas Resources
Quiz Info from the Canvas Community

26. Thank you