- It doesn't look like a rubric, which results in mental gymnastics when trying to compare quiz results to a rubric.
- Quiz results don't show up in Speed Grader for easy comparison between fac/stu grade.
- I have to rebuild the rubric I've already spent way too much time crafting in the Rubrics tool as a Quiz. (for the record, I need students to do self-evals on about 100 assignments using 65 different rubrics.)
- If students need to submit something (like a paper) AND do a self-eval on it, I need to build two assessments - one for them to submit the assignment and one quiz for the self-eval. It may be possible do crazy things with letting them submit a doc within a quiz - haven't tried that. but then I'd need that quiz to be graded by a rubric, which, while theoretically possible, is such a pain I've never been able to get it to work.
- Quizzes have right/wrong answers. If a student is self-assessing their work, and they say "My execution of dimension X was excellent, but my execution of dimension Y was mediocre," a quiz will try to tell them that their assessment of X is right and their assessment of Y is wrong. Using an ungraded survey is a possible workaround - but then they get a fixed number of points for their self-assessment...and then another grade for the actual work that they did?
- Philosophically, it makes ZERO sense to have a great peer review tool that folks already know how to use, and like, but if we want the student to do the exact same thing for their own work instead of a peer's work, we have to go through all this rigmarole with building a quiz.
Every time I suggest a self-evaluation feature, people go to great length to convince me that using a quiz would be a fine workaround, and it's really just NOT. If it were an acceptable workaround, I doubt 235+ people would have upvoted this feature, repeatedly. Hopefully Canvas will hear these pleas and implement this feature soon.
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