Category: Assignments and Tests

What if Grades? Did you know?

What are What-If Grades?

What-If Grades allow students to calculate their total grade by entering hypothetical grades for assignments. Only students can enter and view What-If scores. Learn how students use What-If Scores.

Notes:

  • If Multiple Grading Periods are enabled in your course and users cannot view total grades, or if you have hidden student grade totals in Course Settings, students cannot view their current or total grade in the student Grades page.
  • Currently instructors cannot create hypothetical scores for students like What-If scores. However, you can view current and total scores for students by viewing the Student Interactions Report.

Some neat things coming to Canvas

New Quizzes in Modules

New Quizzes in Modules Video

New Quizzes can now be created when adding quizzes to a module.

What is New Quizzes?

New Quizzes is an assessment engine that provides an improved interface for creating quizzes/tests. The original quiz engine, called Classic Quizzes, is still available for instructors not using New Quizzes.

New Quizzes Guides 

Submission Reassignment

Submission Reassignment Video

In SpeedGrader, instructors can add comments then ask an individual student to redo their submission.

Once the assignment has been reassigned, students will find it in their assignments list.

Now Available!

Microsoft Immersive Reader

The Microsoft Immersive Reader boosts the accessibility of pages and can enhance the reading experience for students.

The Immersive Reader won’t get in the way or alter pages. You can launch the Immersive Reader then return to the original page view at any time.

How do I use the Microsoft Immersive Reader as a student? (Links to an external site.)

How do I use the Microsoft Immersive Reader as an instructor? (Links to an external site.)

View Ungraded as Zero

The Gradebook View menu will include a ‘View Ungraded as 0 option.’ This option does not affect or change grades.

Benefit: Provides instructors with an option to identify calculations for ungraded assignments.

In case you didn’t read the recent Digest

Qwickly Attendance: Cross-listed Courses

If sections are cross-listed but you prefer to manage attendance separately, in the Student Grouping setting, enable By Course Section. If not enabled, Qwickly will combine cross-listed courses into a single list. We’ve also updated our Qwickly Attendance Guide to include this topic.
Rubric Reports

This new tool allows instructors to generate and download four types of reports for rubrics being used in used in any Canvas course. To ensure valid data, rubric name and structure must be identical across course(s).

How to Create and Download Rubric Reports

Report Types & Descriptions

  1. Rubric ID. All assessments for all assignments for the Rubric.
  2. Assignment ID. All assessments for the single assignment.
  3. CRN at Rubric Level. All assessments for all assignments for the Rubric for the selected section.
  4. CRN at Assignment Level. All the assessments for the single assignment for the selected section.

From Digest

Reboot – Migrating Content Caveats – Tips 8 & 9

Migrating content to Canvas is easy but do you really need 10 years of content?  Canvas Migration Process and Caveats

Tip 8 – Rather than Select All you might want to move certain items to another section of your BB course.  Remember you should have all your powerpoints, files etc saved to your piratedrive or other location.  Or import all contents to one of your Sandbox courses and then pick and choose what you really need!

Tip 9 – Again rather than import 10 years of exams you can export an exam from BB and import into Canvas.  Go to Tests, Pools, Surveys in BB and click on arrow next to exam, export, save it and then in Canvas Settings Import into Canvas or do a mass upload of all Bb quizzes and question pools, then selectively upload or copy/paste into Canvas. 

Printing Tests

As we move quickly through the semester especially those on Block schedule, it is time for quizzes/exams and the question I often get no matter the platform is how to print an exam.

Printing a student exam. – For hardcopy or electronic review.

Print an exam for paper copy – no answers –

  1. Navigate to the quiz.
  2. Click on Preview.
  3. Click on the Print button (in the menu options at the upper right of the Firefox screen).
  4. Click on the Page Setup button to remove the headers and footers (if desired).
  5. Click the Print button (upper left, to the left of the Page Setup button).

Printing an Exam with Answer Key – so far the only solution I have found is to export to Respondus Test Generator.  See OET Blog post