Comparing Multiple Student Responses/Answers.

[BGowar]

Is there any way to select a given question in a Canvas Quiz (or even a Discussion) and see all of the student responses to that specific question? If an instructor wants to compare all of the student responses to a question and adjust their grading schema accordingly, is there a simpler method than opening speed grader and having to look at every quiz for every student? Can an instructor just select the one question and see every student response instead? This would be especially useful in short-answer contexts.

Thanks.

[Chris_Hofer]

@BGowar …

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but it might be close…depending on which version of the quizzing interface you are currently using:

• current Classic Quizzes: Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?
• New Quizzes: How do I view reports for a quiz in New Quizzes?

Please let Community members know if either of these Guides will meet your needs…thanks!

[BGowar]

Hi @Chris_Hofer,

The scenario I'm considering is: An instructor attempting to manually grade a short-answer question. If an instructor is able to compare answers to such a question before they input grades, they may be able to grade the cohort more on a curve (they may be more fair). This is a pro-active, rather than retroactive approach. Additionally, the curving feature in Canvas is retroactive and only applicable to an assignment as a whole rather than individual questions (as far as I know).

All of the statistics and analyses that are available on the pages you linked display insights related to assessments that have already been graded. I am looking to see if I can get something analagous to a side-by-side of all the answers to a given question, regardless of whether it has been graded. This is useful in some grading contexts.

Thanks you!

[Ron_Bowman]

@BGowar -

For Classic Quizzes, the Link provided by @Chris_Hofer for classic quizzes has the information you need - although it does not show you exactly.  

With a classic quiz, click on Quiz Statistics, then Student analysis (generates a csv file for download).  That csv file contains the answers for all questions by all students.

So, it is easily edited to provide just the answer column for the short answer question.  The responses by all students will then be available to read in a column entry.

For New quizzes, there is probably a similar feature, but I do not use them.

Let me know if this helps or if it is not what is wanted.

Ron

[TheresaHuff]

I had a faculty member ask this same question yesterday.  Particularly with essay questions and the advent of AI use and to easily spot those that have copied others' answers, it would be helpful to be able to compare student answers to a particular question to see if there are similarities between them.