Will Canvas Ever Support By-Question Grading of Randomized Questions from a Bank?

[wpiper]

Hi, I saw a 5-year-old thread posted in which folks expressed frustration with Canvas' difficulty in letting instructors grade quizzes by question instead of by student. Evidently things have not improved since then. 

Can someone give me a sense of what, if any, progress, Canvas developers have made on this issue in the past 5 years? On my last exam, I had Canvas choose 11 short-answer questions from a question bank containing 40 questions and "randomly" assign those questions to students. Grading this was a nightmare, because I feel it is only fair to grade by question, not by student, to ensure similar standards for all students. What I did to grade it was to get a "report" of all students assigned each question through Quiz Statistics and by clicking on "respondents", which spit out a (not even alphabetized) list of students who got assigned the question. I then had to use speedgrader to hunt through each student's entire exam to find the question and grade it. This took about twice as long as grading paper exams, which of course, lend themselves to by-question grading easily. 

So....I am in a hellish situation. Do you think Canvas will ever solve this? If we are going to be online and use best practices to deter cheating and still challenge our students with hard questions that require them to think and write, we need by-question grading, I think. 

Thanks for any help. 

Walter Piper

[willmoin]

Hi  @wpiper  I'm interested in this also, coming from a new university just making the transition to Canvas, Grade by Question looked very good, however for a particular use case I have we need multiple markers and I'm worried about conflicts. Also no mention of this feature through 'New Quizzes'. Some updates from Instructure would be useful, Will (Uni of Liverpool)

[wpiper]

Hi, Will, 

I just blundered upon something that might help with my situation -- and possible yours. If I go to Quiz Statistics and then run a "Student Analysis Report", it spits out all of the questions from my test bank and all of the student answers in a spreadsheet. I see now that I could simply sort that spreadsheet by each column (pertaining to a separate question from the test bank) in order to grade by question and standardize my grading across all students. The problem would then be to upload that downloaded excel spreadsheet with my manually-entered grades back into Canvas, so that I do not have to re-enter the grades in Canvas one by one for each student and question. 

Can Canvas upload its own reports in order to have these grades batch-recorded? (...if you know what I mean.)

I am hoping that this Excel option is a step forward. It is, at best, a workaround. But it might save many hours for me. 

wp