API enhancements enable admins and instructors to customize test-taking accommodations in New Quizzes, adapting to varying levels of student needs and enhancing testing experiences.

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Expanded API endpoints enable administrators to download quiz data comprehensively, facilitating custom reports and supporting learning outcomes analysis.

What's new? API endpoints are now available to download Quiz and Item Analysis and Student Analysis reports Why is it valuable? Instructors or admins can use their own analytics methods to faci...

Customize status labels for better control and consistency across courses.

Customize status labels for better control and consistency across courses.

Instructors: Help with Gradebook

Need some extra help using the Canvas Gradebook? Here are some helpful guides to get you started: How do I use the Gradebook? How do I filter columns and rows in the Gradebook? How do I sort ...

Community Updates 2024-02-29: Canvas LMS Question Forum Redesign

We’ve updated the Canvas LMS Question Forum user interface to provide easier access to answered and unanswered questions, upgraded the question feeds to match the new design throughout the Community,...

Instructors now have more meaningful data in Item Analysis report to identify invalid questions.

What's new? Answer Frequency Summary tables are available for more question types. Why is it valuable? Instructors can evaluate student responses and patterns of student error in order to provi...

Instructors are able to provide students additional context with standalone text or prompts that are not tied to questions on a New Quiz.

What's new? Instructors can add a text box to a quiz without including a question. Why is it valuable? Instructors can add sections to their quizzes that do not require a question so that they ...

When Instructors share item banks they can now align outcomes tied to sub-accounts to the questions within.

What's new? Users can share and search for item banks by subaccount. Why is it valuable? Customers who have subaccount specific item banks are now able to align outcomes to sub-account shared i...

Instructors can use detailed student analysis report to gain deeper insights into student understanding and activity on quizzes.

What's new? Student Analysis report is available to download in CSV format. Why is it valuable? Instructors can understand student behavior more deeply to help them with a deeper understanding ...

Instructors will be able to share New Quizzes in Canvas Commons, empowering them to better collaborate and save time on content curation.

What's new? Teachers are able to share quizzes through Canvas Commons. Why is it valuable? Instructors have more ways to share quizzes to other accounts (either for themselves or for others in ...

Instructors will be able to share New Quizzes content both within and outside of their organization by use of a common cartridge file to foster greater collaboration.

What's new? New Quizzes can be exported as a Common Cartridge File. Why is it valuable? Teachers can share quizzes to other accounts (either for themselves or for others in their district/conso...

Instructors will be able to provide just-in-time accommodations of additional time for students, ensuring equitable access in the quizzing process.

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Instructors will be able to manage results visibility settings within a New Quiz, streamlining feedback and instructional quality for students.

What's new? When creating a quiz, instructors can choose whether to show feedback and correct answers. Now they will also be able to schedule when results are visible for students. Why is it val...

New Quizzes will now allow instructors to gather anonymous student feedback, to collect insights and improve the learning experience.

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The ability to download all student submissions for a question at once will enable Instructors to save time when manually grading file upload question types in New Quizzes.

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The New Quizzes submissions API will enable instructors and administrators to submit student quiz attempts and retrieve student test submission data to enhance reporting and inform learning outcomes.

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Enhanced video quizzes in Studio will enable instructors to assess student understanding in a more sophisticated manner and facilitate sharing among themselves, reducing time and effort in quiz creation.

What's new?   Why is it valuable? Instructors will be able to re-use and modify video quizzes from their peers and gauge learning with improved quizzing tools.

Instructors and students will be able to capture screen recordings in their browser, eliminating the need for third-party tools.

What's new? Instructors will be able to make back-to-back recordings with a browser-based solution that offers rapid launch time and ensures smooth content creation. Why is it valuable? Produci...

Users gain the flexibility to manage group end dates manually or through course date synchronization, extending the maximum end date to 6 years for longer-lasting groups.

What's new? This update introduces the option for synchronization with course dates, alongside the choice between manual or automatic end date configuration, and extends the maximum end date for gr...

Educators will be able to leverage a simple and familiar block editor interface to create content within Canvas Pages.

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