Essay question type and feedback regardless of answer - Can feedback be shown to students immediately?

[AllisonDJones]

I want to provide students a chance to practice responding to short answer questions before their exam. I don't have time to give them individualized feedback but I'd like to give them feedback using the "Student Feedback" and the option "Provide general feedback (regardless of answer)". I'll include examples of poor, good, and excellent responses and explanations of why.

However, when I take the quiz as a test student, I am unable to see the feedback because it is waiting for the instructor to grade the responses. This isn't what I want. I want students to see the feedback immediately. Here is a screenshot of the settings I have selected. Should I be doing something different here? 

 

If I take this quiz as a test student, this is what I see:

"8 questions require grading". Each individual question says "Waiting for a grade". 

 

[ryan_corris]

Hey @AllisonDJones!

In my experience, the feedback is intended to be shown to students after the quiz is graded.  Here is a suggestion that might work for you.

My thought would be to turn each essay question into two separate questions. Question 1 would be the essay question and worth points if you wish.  Question 2 might be a multiple choice question that could be worth 0 points (Since you have to choose a correct answer and their answer may not be the one you choose as correct).  The feedback you want to give students could be placed in the directions for the multiple choice question.  Multiple choice options could be something like.

1. I understand your feedback and have reflected on my writing
2. I somewhat understand the feedback and can relate it to my writing.
3. I don't really understand the feedback or how it relates to my writing.

This way...

• Students are still getting the writing practice.
• Students are getting immediate feedback (even before the quiz is submitted).
• Students are hopefully reflecting on their writing after reading the feedback.
• The students' responses on the multiple choice questions could be used as a formative assessment and that data could be used to drive instruction or identify how adjusting your feedback could help students that use this assessment in the future.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

[jon_mason · Accepted solution]

Hi @AllisonDJones,

I'm a bit late to the party, but an alternative workaround to this issue is to put the feedback for all the questions into the 'custom feedback with results' box in the quiz Settings. This is rich text feedback, so you can separate the feedback for different questions with headings. This feedback is then shown, under a "From Your Instructor" heading, after submission without the need for grading. There's more info on this solution here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Creating-Questions-with-immediate-feedback/... 

There's also an idea for actually solving the problem and allowing feedback to be shown immediately without grading, here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/New-Quizzes-General-Feedback-and-Correct-Answer-Disp... 

[AllisonDJones]

@jon_mason, that's an excellent solution. Thank you so much!!