Is it possible to create quizzes that draw new questions until student has passed?

[pernilla_lang]

I would like to design a quizz so that I have a large bank of questions in different subareas and the quizz is set to draw a certain number of them to test the student knowledge in a specific area. This is possible at least in the old quizz. But then I would like that if the student does not pass, the quizz draws a new set of questions and keeps doing this until the student has passed. Is that possible?

This is to prevent students from sharing answers or just trying different answers without thinking of what they are doing just to pass a quizz that is mandatory which is clearly happening in our courses.

[jonesn16]

I don't believe Canvas tracks whether a student has seen a particular question before, but if you are combining question groups with sufficiently large sets of questions a student will be more likely to see different questions on each attempt. I don't know what subject you are teaching, but Formula questions are another powerful tool to prevent students from randomly guessing answers.

[James]

The questions chosen with each attempt of a quiz are independent of previous attempts; Canvas does not consider which questions you've already seen when picking questions. I've written about this in other places where people were upset that some questions in their banks were never getting delivered while others seemed to be oft-repeated.

I haven't used them, but I wonder if MasteryPaths might be able to do something here. Depending on the score on the first quiz, they go down a path that gives them a different quiz with completely different questions. I don't know how complicated MasteryPaths can be, but I suspect it will not completely solve the issue since the goal is to have the students to be able to exit at any point once a satisfactory score is met. That means that you might be able to get one additional quiz, but then the students could repeat the bad behavior with the second quiz.

One of the features that New Quizzes has is to require a minimum time between attempts. This would allow forcing students to wait 1 hour (pick a time) between attempts and possibly cut down on the pure guessing. See this lesson in the Canvas Instructor Guide https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-15053-4152780618 for more information. That won't cut down on sharing answers, but that's where the large pool of questions helps.