Quizzes.Next: Modern Quizzing in Canvas

[Renee_Carney]

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What is the Modern Quizzing Engine all about? The answer to this question doesn't require multiple choice! Join the Canvas team to learn about the evolution of testing in Canvas.

[a_eberhard]

There is the mention in passing of an ability to do offline tests.  I.e. print out a quizz.  What will be the mechanism to get the results of a paper based quiz back into Canvas? 

[Renee_Carney]

 @a_eberhard ​

This is a great question that I do not believe have a specific answer for yet.  This project is still in development, and will be for some time.

[dspiel]

If I'm not mistaken 2 years ago when Jason was visiting Tacoma for a conference he said printing would be a possibility.  Are they now not considering it during the development?

[mbuonato]

Some of our teachers are using an app called PaperScorer that allows them to print a quiz in a bubble sheet format and scan it using their phone. Paperscorer - Home 

[gwied]

PaperScore is NOT the tool we need here - from what I read on the vendor website, it's wonderful at what it does, but it DOES NOT assist printing an exam from Canvas.

[applem]

Will teachers have the ability to combine two question types such as short answer and multiple choice?

The old Hot Potato quiz  authoring tool (Hot Potatoes Home Page) had a hybrid question type. The students had 2 attempts to answer a short answer or matching question correctly before it turned into a multiple choice question.

Will it be possible to make the test adaptable based on student's responses?

[Renee_Carney]

I don't have a definitive answer on this,  @applem ​.  I would encourage you to follow for updates as they are available.

[dmalik]

I really enjoyed the video from the July camping event. We are exploring a major new approach to our online testing in our college chemistry course. Our current software is dated, but is very strong in accommodating science-type questions (symbols, figures, graphs, equations, etc.), however it is a discontinued product. So the presentation included many things that we currently or need to include. I have two questions. (1) Has the editor been updated along with the quiz infrastructure? It is somewhat challenging/cumbersome to input the scientific-type questions we use. On almost every question, we need to decide whether the basic editor or the math editor is necessary, as well as including equations (from other software like Word or MathType). (2) Since the discussion talks about the future, when might some of these advances be rolled out? I heard a rumor from within our university that the summer 2017 is supposed to be a big change in quiz options. Is that a reference to the time line? I'm not looking for a date and time, but perhaps a season...?

[Tasha_Biesinger]

A recent conversation with faculty around quiz question analytics led to a question about whether you could analyze a question used across multiple quizzes/courses, which led to a larger question about what data and or analytics would be available for the Quizzes.Next engine.  Do you have any information about what views, analyses, and/or data downloads will be available with Quizzes Next?

[Tasha_Biesinger]

My understanding is that Quizzes.Next will eventually replace the current Quizzing functionality in Canvas.  How will this impact viewing past term course quizzes?  Also, what would happen if a past course with the old quizzing engine is re-enabled after the old quizzing engine is gone?

[a_eberhard]

Is this vapourware?  I was just thinking that a lot of the big upcoming features that were announced at Instructurecon 2016 have not materialised a year on.

[joseph_allen]

It would be good to get an update on this.  It has been talked about for a year and half.  

[kona]

 @a_eberhard , I was part of the beta testing they did less than a month ago and it's definitely real and it's definitely coming!

[a_eberhard]

Excellent.

[siouxgeonz]

Really?

[kona]

Some schools are using it right now and I heard from an Instructure employee who has been working on this that it is scheduled to be released by the beginning of next year - so Jan 2018. 

[siouxgeonz]

Thanks!    Any year now!   It's like our Rails to Trails project... 

[kona]

To be honest I kind of said something similar when the Instructure Employee said that to me and he said something to the effect that I'd never heard him say a specific date, until now. This person was of some consequence and said he was standing behind that timeline. In addition, I also talked to one of the engineers working on the project and he said they'd been hitting it hard in the past months. 

[siouxgeonz]

I just remember the 2016 excitement -- and it makes me wonder about priorities.   The "well, we didn't actually promise anything that you can make us stick to!"   makes me groan.   The people of some consequence are not *at all* what brings me to Canvas... 

[dmalik]

If some schools have it already, why wouldn't they make it available now and just call it a beta release. Then those who have lots of work to do can start preparing for larger scale implementation. We have some huge scientific (chemistry) databases that we'd like to convert. Starting that now would be helpful.

[joseph_allen]

David, I've been hearing about this for about a year and a half now and yes, while it will be great, we need the actual product. The quiz functionality today is pretty under powered compared to other tools in the market.  I know there are and have been beta groups.  Perhaps you can talk to your CSM and get into one.   

[rmariucci]

I need Rich Text editing in my answer choices for quizzes.  Please implement this!

[barclay_brown]

One feature I'd like to see is the ability to draw questions from multiple pools and then randomize the order of ALL the questions on the quiz. Right now, questions from the first pool are presented before questions from the second pool. 

[siouxgeonz]

Me too me too me too 

but I'm feeling the utter silence about 'quizzes next.'   I'm thinking something  imploded ... 

[dspiel]

This has been around for many years by all the major LMS companies.  Surprised this wasn't thought about in the beginning.  You should be able to attach more than group within a group and then each group is randomized in the order the groups are made.  Hope this is implemented soon...

[dspiel]

I haven't seen it available in the BETA yet but will they allow the pulling of questions based on the type of questions in the final.  So instead of having to break down many banks into TF or Matching that you can just bring it into the banks as a group and then when randomizing a group you can just say pull the matching from the bank?  Something our instructors have missed since the beginning as both WebCT, Angel and BB allows this.

[barclay_brown]

Has there been any thought given to making it as hard as possible for quiz takers to capture/copy the quiz questions and answers? I know that this cannot be fully prevented (for example a student could snap a photo of the question with a smart phone, or retype the question into a word processor) but making it as difficult as possible to copy the question will help reduce the unauthorized copying and sharing of quiz/test content. If anyone is interested in this, I have some ideas for how it could be done either as part of Canvas functionality or in some kind of custom quiz presenter Canvas add-on. 

[dmalik]

Quizzes.next appears to be a longer wait than what many of us had hoped for. 

I would imagine that some selected suggestions might have been addressed during the long wait. For example, inputing questions via Microsoft files... even if very limited. Then our simps hundreds of questions would have gotten new life. For someone with needs for science and math content, this process and wait have been painful.