[New Quizzes] Allow Quiz Regrade for Questions Linked to Banks

[striglej]

We heavily use the question bank folders to keep our questions organized.  We create them in the banks since it is the only way to keep them from going into an "unfiled" folder.

The regrade feature needs to be allowed for questions linked to banks.  If the question is wrong in one quiz, it is wrong everywhere so I fail to see what it matters if it is referenced multiple places.  Regrading is critical to fair grading and it makes no sense to either be stuck with a choice between a completely disorganized question database and losing the regrade option.

[ginan]

That's pretty good! Thanks for sharing.

[kimberly_smith1]

I see that some have voted down on this. It would be helpful if those voting down on feature ideas would explain their reasoning. That is, do they feel that adding this feature to Canvas for those who need will somehow disrupt how they do things, or is the down vote just a reflection of their wanting to reduce the number of votes on an idea, so that a different feature idea they want more will move up on the Canvas to do list?

[James]

 @kimberly_smith1 , many of the down votes in old features are because of a glitch in the voting software that registered an up vote as a down vote and they never caught it. Since three of the four people who downvoted are from the same school, that's most likely the explanation.

Regardless, people should not be required to explain their vote, whether for or against something.

[kimberly_smith1]

Hello  @James  ,

Fair enough. 

It just seemed that explaining down votes would be relevant to the discussion - in the same way that Canvas asks those posting ideas to include 'use cases and scenarios', so that others "understand why you want the option to do something in Canvas". But I do see your point. 

[scottdennis]

Hi  @kimberly_smith1 ,

I cannot comment on the motivations or inner thoughts of anyone voting for this particular feature but going off related conversations that people have had in other threads; not wanting to see something prioritized over something that they think would be more valuable is one reason some people give for downvoting.  Other times people really do think a given change would be negative to the overall platform - maybe confusing for teachers or students or both, or encourage what they see as 'bad' teaching practices.  Other people have said they vote something down simply because they don't feel that the additional complexity of the platform that it would entail would be outweighed by the additional utility.  

[kimberly_smith1]

Hello  @scottdennis  ,

Thank you for this clarification. I have not been seeing many 'why' comments within the ideas with down votes, but these make sense. Perhaps some are also due to the 'glitch' that  @James  mentioned. I was just trying to say that it would be helpful to know about those when reading through a discussion, to be able to consider the reasoning on both sides when reviewing a discussion on feature requests. 

[scottdennis]

That makes sense,  @kimberly_smith1  

For what it is worth, I don't think the glitch has been active for about the past year, so anything newer is probably intentional.  For people who did experience the bug previously, they could come back and click the upvote choice a second time to change their vote but some people evidently didn't notice or know they could re-vote even though we did our best to drive awareness.

[michael9]

To me, this seems like such an essential feature that it shouldn't even need a vote. Do you ask users if they want an undo feature? Obviously not, and this is the same functionality (ooh, I wish I hadn't written the question quite that way). I am saddened to think of all those hard-working instructors who have had to toil away in their grade books because they made a slight mistake, when a few programmers at Canvas could have made all that pain go away ... 

[chavez_102]

Please fix this issue! We use questions banks for our exams and this has been a real big inconvenience and drain on our time when we have to regrade questions for our class of 200 students.

[bsr]

Agreed! Not being able to correct a question that had the wrong answer marked as correct is much closer to a bug than a feature request. The ability to have a "master question" and only have to change it in one place is the ENTIRE POINT of a question bank. Having to download the questions into question groups on each quiz, essentially recreating the bank over and over for each instance of its use, not only defeats the purpose of using banks, it creates a nightmare when a mistake is discovered, and we have to find all of the separate instances and correct them individually.