[New Quizzes] RCE to match Canvas

[kroeninm]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

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Please feel free to turn this feature idea off if it's been addressed (or on it's way?) but I am not initially seeing it. With the new Rich Content Editor rolling into Canvas (June 2020), can I request that we have one RCE across Canvas (inclusive of the Equation Editor)?

I'd like to request New Quizzes use the same RCE as within a Canvas course. (or at a minimum can the icons and locations of options be the same?)

Training and supporting a single content creation tool for rich text allows for a more seamless adoption of New Quizzes and ongoing consistency. Faculty and students will see the New Quizzes as part of Canvas a bit more easily. (and no need to reinvent the wheel ).

New RCE (Wiris-like Equation Editor)

New Quizzes RCE (MathQuill Equation Editor)

Melanie

[mapiers2]

I like to include data and equation sheets with exam questions but this is not allowed in New Quizzes without going to some rigamarole to link to the document.  This is particularly difficult if using Respondus Lockdown Browser with the exam quiz.  Additionally the math editor is way too primitive.  However, I did figure out how to get around it by using inline latex code by using the begin and end flags \( latex code inside \).  For example, you can write "\(^{235}_{\phantom{2}92}\)U" to get more control over what you write for formulas, etc.

[jwalz]

YES YES YES!!   Some consistency across the interface please!!   If you have an RCE on the page / item / question / whatever, then it SHOULD HAVE all the features of all the other RCEs!

Please.

[bishopta]

I like to embed PDFs for my students to view or print off while taking a quiz. With the new quizzes, I have had to embed a link to the file from my google drive for them to get to the PDF, which is more work for me when creating. It also takes the students to a new tab, and I prefer to keep the students on one tab.

Please include the embed document button in the new quizzes.

[dkline3]

Having the same RCE as on the pages better allows us to provide listening texts and even oral administration for accommodations. 

It also easily allows students to submit recordings in the quiz. Therefore, language teachers can have functional simulated conversation that students move through, and don't back track. 

[rlowe5]

I regret selecting new quizzes because of the lack of functionality with fill-in-the-blank questions. I too would like the ability to have multiple lines and formatting. In my opinion, when I use fill-in-the-blank in new quizzes, it always looks quite amateurish. It does not match the rest of the exam in format or style.

Also, I have a large selection of questions I can no longer use because they use formatted text representing source code with missing elements. I have my students fill in these elements to complete the programs. In real quizzes, this was quite simple. In this new engine, it is utterly impossible to do. 

This is a huge step backwards in functionality.

[cbowden3]

Please add a way for teachers to post audio to questions in NeW Quizzes either in item bank questions or for items on quizzes we create ourselves. 

Many students have accommodations that require audio with their assessments. 

Sometimes teachers would like to practice listening to audio of questions  or instructions on assessments. 

Formative assessments have sections with audio built in. Students need the practice of listening to the audio with their quizzes. 

I am sure I am not the only teacher in Canvas who has noticed it isn't possible to add audio of the question in New Quizzes. 

For comparison, there are online digital worksheet platforms, Wizer.me, where you can record audio. I've been linking this for practice in Canvas. The same for several others. It would be more convenient for Canvas to offer that tool. 

Thank you. 

[nickmiklusak]

I need the RCE to have better font choices.

Chemistry relies on symbol recognition.  IIIIIIIlIIIIIIII  That is a line of uppercase i with ONE lowercase L  You can't pick it out.  Even if you could, CI might be carbon and iodine or it might just be chlorine.  I used the <> toggle in the assignments to edit the HTML and use the Garamond font.  However, I also would like the choice of comic sans for my dyslexic students.  Apparently, comic sans is able to be read more easily by dyslexics and with fewer errors.

[kmahaffy]

We are running into another issue with New Quizzes. When we copy courses from a template, the copy process randomly makes some New Quizzes "unpublished" while others remain "published." All quizzes were set as "published" in the templates, so there is a glitch somewhere that unpublishes some when letting others go through as they were originally set.

Anyone else experiencing that?

[RobDitto]

@kmahaffy, if you have time, could you ask your question in the New Quizzes Users Forum?

[kmahaffy]

Done!  Thanks, Rob.