[New Quizzes] adaptive learning - quiz branching

[christopher_bar]

It would be excellent if the quiz tool enabled branching for adaptive learning. If quizzes were embedded into content then potentially students could be directed to a particular piece of content based on their response to a question.

  Comments from Instructure

2022-07-12 -- After reviewing this long-existing idea, the Community Team has determined that this request will remain Open. While it was authored when only Classic Quizzes existed, the idea can be applied to New Quizzes as well. Ultimately, this will reduce the number of duplicated Idea requests and allow the conversation and collaboration to exist in a single space. 

[amie_gardner]

I absolutely need this right now, and hate to have to go to Captivate to do which does not accommodate 6-point surveys

[rdorn1]

I'm looking at a Canvas checklist for best practices and essentials for an online course. Differentiation is listed here as an Exemplary criterion, but it is highly labor intensive to do in Canvas. This kind of branching would help all of use do what Canvas tells us we should.

[brigwald]

But this can be quite cumbersome.  Moodle has this built in to its Lesson Module, where pages/pages w/ questions, can be strung together as a single assignment.    It allows for branched learning, "choose your own adventure" type simulations, etc...

[Steven_S]

Agreed.  Mastery paths are not yet as user friendly as they could be.  I'm not sure about how pages and pages with questions string together, differently than mastery paths.  Mastery paths lets you use a quiz as a way for students to "choose an adventure" and then trigger the appropriate pages, quizzes and assignments to appear. Every quiz can be used as another branching point.  This all becomes a part of the module you build.  Could you offer an example of the design you would like instead?

[j_l_lonbay]

yes please

[rexj]

We are moving from Moodle to Canvas and have some instructors who make use of branching questions. it would be great to see this functionality in New Quizzes. 

Thanks.

[KristinL]

Thank you everyone for contributing to this idea! We acknowledge that this has been a long-standing thread in the Community. Because Intructure’s product teams are no longer developing new functionality for Classic Quizzes, which is scheduled to be deprecated 2024, we are archiving this idea. We hope that you continue to participate in the Community’s Idea Process!

The resources in the New Quizzes User Group should help you get started with using New Quizzes in your courses. If you don't see the ability to enable New Quizzes in the settings area of one of your courses, please reach out to your local Canvas admin for information about its availability at your school.

[TechAlex]

We would like to see a feature on new quizzes where follow up question(s) can be assigned to the student based on their answer to the previous question. This would be helpful for learning in multiple different ways. Firstly, it would help the student be able to see the natural outcome of their logical processes in the format of quiz question. Secondly, It would allow the instructor to develop the students logic towards a specific end or open end. Thirdly, you can make a question so that the quiz maker doesn't have to make an essay instead where they need to grade it manually. This provide the instructor with an ease of grading. 

Thank You. 

[hesspe]

It's called adaptive testing, right?  Or at least a modified form of it.

[KristinL]

2022-07-20 -- After reviewing this long-existing idea, the Community Team has determined that this request will remain Open. While it was authored when only Classic Quizzes existed, the idea can be applied to New Quizzes as well. Ultimately, this will reduce the number of duplicated Idea requests and allow the conversation and collaboration to exist in a single space.