Answer keys?

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cyoung12
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Are there answer keys so I can grade more quickly?

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barbmurck
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Yes, please - I have seen this discussed on the Canvas Community for years and there doesn't seem to be an answer that is workable.

We have a large bank of Short-Answer questions, from which we draw randomly for our quizzes. They are marked by TAs. Each student of course gets a different set of questions. I need to find a way to have the answers appear to the TAs in Speed Grader, but not to the students.

It is extremely cumbersome to use a separate answer key because each quiz will have a different set of questions, so it's big time-waster for the TAs to have to search through the long answer key to find the right answers for each quiz.

I have tried putting the answer in "General Comments" but there is no way to hide the comments from the students, so that doesn't work.

Thanks for any input.

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Thank you for your reply. I understand.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:12 AM barbmurck@gmail.com <instructure@jiveon.com>

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BryanSarauer
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How is it possible that they have not built answer keys into quizzes? I assumed that I was simply not understanding something but based on these questions this obvious feature doesn't exist? I come from a background of using D2L where it's a basic feature of quizzes. Every question has a key. 

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barbmurck
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No, evidently they are not reading these posts. I just got an e-mail saying that my post - in which I said "Yes, PLEASE give us a way to have answer keys" - has been accepted as a solution.

Umm... OK?

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lenz
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@barbmurck 

I saw that too, just before my head exploded.  😵  I honestly don't know what else to do to get their attention.  If I had time, I would start a whole new thread using thesaurus synonyms for answer key just to see if we could get a human's attention.

I did fall into the rabbit hole for a minute and start looking at something called "Tracker" or "Mastery Tracker" or something like that.  Do you know what that is?  I have no idea, but I don't think it's part of the CANVAS that we use here at the UW.  I skimmed it too fast but wondered if it might somehow magically apply to your situation

Have a great weekend and congratulations on your "solution!"

Cherie (@lenz)

 

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