Zero Point Questions in New Quizzes

[mmoore1]

We are a community college in California.  I have a teacher who is really good at creating quizzes, and he found that when you set a question in New Quizzes to Zero ("as it is not necessarily needed for the grade but a good for review question") that it still needs to be graded and set to zero.  Is there any way that these can default to a value that will not require a teacher to grade the assignment.  Is there a better type of question that can be used?

[JenMurphyA]

Hi @mmoore1! It's true that when you have an essay question or another type that requires grading like a File Upload question, it has to be graded even though it's worth zero points. I think it's a good suggestion, however, it looks like it has been suggested in the past and never implemented. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/New-Quizzes-Ungraded-Essay-Question-0-points-a.... I have seen folks create entire assessments worth zero points in order to ask review or survey questions. You could also use any of the Auto-graded item types and the student will just it wrong or right, but if it's worth zero points, it will not matter. For example, you could ask a true or false question on whether they found the class inspiring or something. Perhaps others will have ideas here or you could suggest this again. - Jen