Grades on First Attempt

[Mark52]

The system reports grades based on the average, highest or last attempt. I need the grades from the first attempt. Why this obvious choice is not on the list is a mystery to me. Students want to do the assignments again just before test time, so I allow multiple attempts. Some students simply do the assignment multiple times after they see the answers to get the average as close to 100 a possible.

The score for the first attempt is there and you can see it for each assignment. But I have 200 students and 10 assignments. Getting the data one assignment at a time will take days.

Please, someone at Canvas, add this obvious feature. In the mean time, can someone tell me if I can create a report somehow?

[SusanNiemeyer]

I agree. Instructors should have the option of allowing students to take Quizzes multiple times, but have the score of the first attempt be counted in the Gradebook. Giving instructors this flexibility should be fairly easy for the Canvas programmers to do.

[dosipovitch]

How is this still not implemented? Quizzes are great review tools for students, and they always ask to allow more attempts in order to practice. Yet the current options are not very good. The ideal would be: keep the first attempt's grade and allow quizzes infinite retakes. We NEED this for the 2023-24 school year. 

[dosipovitch]

After more research, it was deemed important enough to add to New Quizzes, but not Classic Quizzes? If it's important, then it's important and needs to be implemented in BOTH places. 

[Chris_Hofer]

@dosipovitch ...

You may or may not have heard that Instructure (the folks that make Canvas) are no longer developing new things for current Classic Quizzes.  Instead, they are focusing their efforts on New Quizzes.  Eventually, Classic Quizzes will be phased out, and you won't be able to use that interface anymore.  If your school does not currently have access to New Quizzes, I'd encourage you to have a conversation with your school's Online Learning / eLearning / Distance Learning team to see what their plan is for making New Quizzes available to you and the other instructors at your school.  You may also want to visit the New Quizzes Hub - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com) to see what is planned for the future.

I hope this will help in some way.