Automatically graded extra credit on tests for 500 students

[tomhanna-uh]

I teach two sections with 250 students each. I would like to offer them extra credit on their tests, as the main credit questions are quite tough and I expect the median grade to be below a C. It seems as if the designers of Canvas have never been teachers or students, as extra credit is a normal sort of thing in most classes I have ever taken and every course I have ever taught. With 500 students, manually grading questions or even entering 500 scores in a reasonable time is untenable and with well designed software should be entirely unnecessary. 

Is there an undocumented solution, trick, or hack out there somewhere? Has anyone at Instructure noted that Blackboard is vastly superior in the practically seamless execution of such a simple feature? 

[jerry_nguyen]

@tomhanna-uh 

I think it's possible using the weighted gradebook as described by @James here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Extra-Credit-Quiz/m-p/216290/highlight/true...

Otherwise, if you need to add more points for students then you can ultilise Canvas API. If you could explain what you would need to do in detail, I might be able to assist you with the script to use Canvas API

[tomhanna-uh]

Thank you for the answer. I had already read that in trying to find a solution before posting. This is the first of three major exams and I want to add a couple of extra credit questions to it. It consists of multiple choice, true false, multiple answer, and other question types that are automatically graded. This is a proctored exam given at the University testing center. The students will not be allowed by the testing center to open a second extra credit assignment to answer more questions outside the single exam ("quiz"). So the solution involving creating an assignment and assigning it to a different group does not work.

The goal is to add two questions to an exam with 60 questions for a total point value of 62 out of 60 possible. In Blackboard there are two easy solutions. It can be done by giving the questions a point value of 1 each, but setting the total value of the exam to 60 so that there are a sort of floating extra credit points. It can also be done by specifically designating certain questions as extra credit. None of this required manually grading 500 multiple choice questions.