One task: Quiz questions + media recording upload option

[JennyJOHANSEN]

I am a teacher in a High School. I want to assess Year 7 students of Japanese by having them 

1.  Complete a quiz (using a variety of the quiz functions) 

and

2. Record themselves speaking and upload this.  (This function is in the assignments area)

 There is no function for uploading recordings while in a quiz. 

What is the most efficient way to collect both sets of tasks from students? We want it to be easy to follow.

(At present we also use Education Perfect which allows the combination of a variety of functions in one "smart lesson".  We are hoping to move more of this to Canvas - but it needs to be straightforward for students)

Thank you to anyone with suggestions.  

[SusanNiemeyer · Accepted solution]

I teach ESL at a community college, and I have often structured exams this way:

1. I create a separate module for the exam. The first item is a page which explains the exam. "Your exam will have two parts. For Part A, you will take a quiz. For Part B, you will submit a video recording....."

2. Structure your exam to have Part A (Quiz) and Part B ( Assignment). Don't try to combine them. Your students will easily figure this out.

3. Assuming that you have Assignment Groups set up, put Part A (Quiz) and Part B (Assignment) into one Assignment Group.

4. Pay attention to the number of points given for each item. Do you want them counted equally or is one part more important than the other?

Your students will easily understand that your exam has two parts. This is a much simpler approach than trying to combine them. 

[AbigailGoodall]

Thanks 

[JennyJOHANSEN]

Thank you very much. this is a useful option and I will trial this with the younger students.   
Another teacher at my school offered this suggestion, which is perhaps a little more complex for students to follow but possible: 

The quiz and assessment features are separate. Even within the assessment feature, students can only submit one type of assessment at one time. For example, if you wanted students to submit a written task and a recorded element, in order for these things to be viewed within the same attempt, the student would need to pre-record their element, and submit it as an .mp4 file alongside their written file.

However, the quiz can take recorded media answers – students will need a model on how to do this though, it is not straightforward.

In terms of teacher set-up, the question must be set to Essay. The Essay question type allows students to use the Rich Content Editor if you allow this feature in the settings of the question.

When the student accesses the question, they will then be able to use all of the Rich Content features that are set along the top of the box in which they would normally write their response (i.e. they have the same features you can see above the box currently, including font options, highlighting, file uploading etc.)

In order for a student to record themselves in response to this question, they would need to choose the Media option from the items above, then choose Upload/Record Media.

Students will not have the course media option, just Upload/Record and User Media which they can pull from their QLearn personal file library (which most students don’t have anything in).

Students can then record themselves in real time, or upload an already created media file from their file storage. Students have the option to have their webcam on or off for this recording, and can choose the microphone they use to record. This is the point that needs modelling – students need to see how to do it.

When the student has successfully recorded themselves, they can preview their recording before hitting Save Media – if they don’t like their attempt, they can also Start Over and the recording will be overwritten by their next attempt.

The media file is sat in the area where the student would normally write their response. The item can be played from within the box (I have tested this morning, as you can see).

So, you can set up your normal quiz, and then prompt the students within an Essay question that instead of writing their response, they record their response

[SusanNiemeyer]

Definitely experiment with both options. The key to your students successfully doing these tasks is to make them as straightforward as possible. The fewer the steps, the better. 

A lot of modeling helps. Even more helpful is to have the students do low-stakes tasks that use the same format. For the video recording section of your exam, they should have already submitted other video recordings. Therefore, when taking the exam, they will already feel comfortable with the tech side and only need to focus on crafting their answers.

[JennyJOHANSEN]

(QLearn is the name of our LMS )