Zero point New Quizzes

[SamGarza1]

Often instructors in Canvas want to use practice quizzes to familiarize students with the kind of questions or content they may encounter in a course. These practice quizzes can clutter a gradebook and slow down the overall process of grading. 

Now with zero point New Quizzes instructors will be able to create practice quizzes that can be hidden from the gradebook and student’s grade page. When creating a zero point New Quiz instructors will now see an option to not display the quiz in the gradebook or student’s grade page. The option to not count the quiz towards the final grade will also be selected.

Instructors will still be able to see student submissions in speedgrader by using one of the speedgrader links on the quiz when viewing it in the New Quiz builder or on the module and assignment index pages. 

Read more about this update in the Canvas Release Notes (2023-06-17)

[admin_nolan]

I like the idea of the 0 point new quiz.

Where we often want to use this feature is for extra credit.  And not necessarily use the weighted assignment groups for this purpose.

For regular assignments, if you set the points possible to 0.
Grade the submission in Speed Grader and give a score of say, 90.
The score in the grade book for the student is 90 out of 0.  Which provides 90 points of extra credit for the student.  Quick and easy way to give extra credit.

In a New Quiz, if you initially set the quiz to 0 points and the student receives a score of 90, the grade which appears in the grade book for the student is 0.
-No easy way to get the points earned to appear in the column in the grade book.
-Have to change the new quiz points possible back to say, 100.
-Then manually touch each student's submission in Speed Grader to update the score in the grade book.

So, does not act similarly to other 0 point assignments in Canvas designed to be extra credit.  Have a few instructors who painfully encountered this difference between regular assignments extra credit and new quizzes.

For a new quiz to be extra credit, the instructor would need to initially set the quiz to say, 100 points.

Allow students to take the quiz and earn a score, which appears in the grade book.

Then go back and change the points possible to 0 to make the points earned in the grade book column it extra credit.

Would love the points possible to be initially set to 0 and the points earned appear in the grade book column.

Then have the new option to not count that score in the grade book.

Not sure of other people's thoughts on this one.

Kevin Nolan
Colorado State U Canvas Admin

[JayParekh]

There is an issue with this setting when New Quizzes are set up to Display mark as Complete/Incomplete, which is ideal for a practice quiz with zero marks. 

Even if a student has attempted the quiz which contains questions worth 1 point (which appears by default while constructing a quiz and shouldn't matter since the overall quiz is worth zero points), the quiz engine marks the student as "Incomplete" and the teachers are not able to change the mark in speedgrader either. The only workaround is to edit a student's grade from Incomplete (X) to Complete (✓) in the Markbook which is extra admin work. (Case#09879126 for reference)  

[MaryMacDonald]

Can anyone comment on whether this would allow users of a public course, who are not authenticated, to take a quiz?

With Classic Quizzes, we could use the "practice quiz" option in public courses. 

[b_s_torset]

I have a zero point quiz with a mix of questions, and also some open ended questions. I don't want to assess these and have set up for automatic feedback so students can compare their answer to the "correct".

When I test this in studentview the automatic feedback doesn't show - it just says "waiting for assessment. Can I do something about this?