[ARCHIVED] Filter by section - when moderating a Quiz

[janethbeck]

When moderating a quiz you can filter by student, it would be really useful if we could filter by section. 

During virtual learning (Covid) I'd like to be quickly able to see which of my students from each class section is currently part way through taking a quiz. So I can message or email those who haven't started it yet to remind them to get on with it.

Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to manually check through the list of all 150+ of my students to find the ones that should be working but who I can see are not ...

[kmeeusen · Accepted solution]

Hi @janethbeck 

Have you considered using the Gradebook's "Message students who................" feature. It will automatically select all students who have not submitted (among other options). My quizzes are open for several days, and on the final day, I use that feature to remind folks they still have to submit. Learn more at, How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?

In Idea Conversations in this Community, there is an idea for expanding filtering option in the Moderate Quiz function. Check it out at Filter Moderate this Quiz, and support if you agree.

I hope this helps,

Kelley

[janethbeck]

I use that option every day!

This was specifically because in our district our virtual students are required to stick to their class time schedule as if they were in school. Attendance (and school funding from the state is based on this).

However, some of my virtual students don't take their tests and quizzes during their scheduled time slot. They delay until they've heard from their friends what questions are on the quiz. This is a for a high school level course, I have 3 virtual sections and so have to set multiple different available from and due times for each quiz. I want to be able to contact students BEFORE their quiz or test is late, 5 minutes after they should have started I would like to be able to see that they haven't yet begun. It is just one more tool to try to reduce cheating, I know that some (certainly not all) of my students are waiting until their friends have sent them photos of their answer sheets. We do pick questions from a bank of questions for each type of question, I also use Proctorio to try to reduce collaboration and cheating. But in reality we know that if they felt inclined to many of our virtual students can find ways to get help on tests and quizzes in many ways. 

[jat]

I'm teaching at a university junior level, high enrollment course with multiple sections, and I do have to chase students who do not log into the high stakes mid-term and final exams. It appears that filtering by section should not be such an encumbrance to implement. Thank you for considering the issue.