How do I view Standard Deviation of exam grades as an Instructor?

[Kamal_H]

I teach face-to-face classes and enter exam grades in the Canvas gradebook, where I can view the mean. Does Canvas also provide the standard deviation of graded assignments under New Analytics or anywhere else?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @Kamal_H ...

I'm not sure what version of the Canvas quizzing engine you are using, but these are the Guides available for you related to statistics and reports for quizzes:

• Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statisti... - Instructure Community - 659
• How do I view reports for a quiz in New Quizzes? - Instructure Community - 619

Hopefully one of these Guides will be helpful to you.  Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

[Kamal_H]

Thank you, Chris.

For online classes using Canvas New Quizzes, I can see the Standard Deviation along with the score distribution.

However, for FTF classes where we administer paper exams and manually enter grades, Canvas does not provide the Standard Deviation unless we export the Gradebook to Excel to find the standard deviation.

Let me know if there are any other options I might have missed.

Best,
Kamal

[Kamal_H]

When I graded paper exams and posted the grades in Canvas, students were able to see statistics like a box plot. As an instructor, I would also like to have access to key statistical measures such as mean, median, mode, Q1, Q3, and standard deviation for exams. Since Canvas already calculates these statistics for students, I hope it would be an easy fix to make them visible to instructors as well.

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

I can see those when going to an individual student's gradebook, then clicking on the score details button (a small square with a checkmark, right after each score), so they are visible for instructors, just not on a convenient location.

[Kamal_H]

Hi Gabriel,

Thank you! I see it now. I appreciate your help in pointing that out.

Best,
Kamal