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The ability to add partial minutes for timed quizzes would be very beneficial or creating time math fluency assessments. 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) or 30 seconds (0.5 minutes). I am in desperate need of it now.
I teach 8th grade, and I encountered an issue when creating a quiz in the new version of Quizzes. Only one type of question (multiple answer choices) has the option for partial credit. This caused me to have to go back in and regrade all 119 students' tests to give partial credit for matching questions and for ordering questions. I would love to see the partial credit option for all questions types, if that is possible. Thanks!
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...redit for Multiple Choice Questions in New Quizzes. Currently, this is not an option, so a student e...
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Please allow for partial credit for ALL questions in New quizzes--ordering, matching, etc.
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...eview). The product manager for New Quizzes has been actively engaging with community members, and w...
In new quizzes, when marking teacher-graded responses such as short answer/essay, the current options are a check mark for correct and an x for incorrect. No matter which mark is selected, the teacher can change the point value from full credit or no credit to a partial point credit. This part is great for situations in which the teacher wishes to give partial credit. However, this situation is not well communicated to students with the current correct/incorrect buttons. The answer is not completely correct nor is it completely incorrect. This makes it difficult as a teacher to decide which option to select. If you select correct, the student may not notice the reduced point value and skip over the teacher provided feedback for the portion that was incorrect. If you select incorrect, the student may not notice that part of the answer was correct and awarded partial points. A button for partially correct can be used when the student gets some of the points available but not all of them. This will alert the student that they must identify which part was correct and which part was incorrect when reviewing their attempt.
In New Quizzes, you can choose to award different points to different multiple choice questions.
Please add this functionality to numeric questions. Most student mistakes are predictable in advance, so it is easy to come up with a set of wrong answers that are still deserving of partial credit.
Totally insane that quizzes (old or new) can't be set so that students get partial credit for any question that has multiple parts (matching, categorization, fill in the blank etc...). My idea... make it possible for instructors to set ANY question for allowing partial credit.
Why are there two quiz creation options? This is crazy to me. Put all of the features together into one thing called "quizzes." Furthermore, in the new quizzes option if you create a matching question and they miss one of the answers the get the whole thing wrong, where as in old Canvas quizzes partial credit is possible.
The fact that there are two quiz generators on Canvas highlights the deficiencies of Canvas. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Less buttons, less options, better categorization, better hierarchy of buttons and tools.
New Quizzes has alot of potential, especially with the new moderation and question types that we can use! And we love what it is capable of doing!! However, there are some basic functionalities that teachers at our school feel have been left out. If we could focus on these basic features before adding new and shiny features, that would be wonderful!
SpeedGrader - While we understand at this point that New Quizzes is considered an "external tool" (Although why makes no sense... it is a native program to Canvas), it has thus disabled the ability for SpeedGrader to recognize that free response questions (Essay Questions) need grading.
Partial Credit - Classic Quizzes has this feature, so lets refer to that documentation and program on getting this feature back!!
Thank you for all you do! We want to use your new features, but unfortunately without the Speedgrader feature, many of us are simply guessing or having to spend extra time checking quizzes to make sure that we have graded all the submissions received! Especially when assignments have open due dates for flexibility.
- A grading option/link on the quiz directly to speedgrader so that we don't have to go through the gradebook.
- When using options like "matching" to give students partial credit of the total points instead of giving them 0 points if they get a single matching incorrect.
- To give "To Do" notifications when students submit a New Quizzes that needs to be graded. Currently I have to manually check speedgrader to see if there are new submissions I need to grade.
- A way to attach rubrics to New Quizzes
When using the Multiple Answer type of question, having the question point value visible is a partial giveaway for answering, rather than the learner actually evaluating each option. We usually have to add, "Choose all that apply." to the question anyway, so it would be better to be able to hide the points.
I have heard that "New quizzes" will be replacing "Old quizzes" at a certain point. I have some serious concerns with this because I've found that "New quizzes" are much less user-friendly than "Old quizzes." My 3 main issues with "New Quizzes" are the following:
1. New quizzes don't give partial credit for "matching" questions like "Old quizzes" do when students successfully match some of the answers, but not others. This may be true with other question types as well; I haven't used "new quizzes" enough to know because of the problems I experienced with them.
2. New quizzes don't send out reminders that grades need to be adjusted when students redo the assignment for more points like "old quizzes" do. When I've used them, students had to tell me that they redid an assignment and needed me to update their grade.
3. I've had problems with "new quizzes" not sending the correct grade to "Skyward" - our district's grading program. Even though I have them set to send over the "highest" score, occassionally I have students inform me that a different score has been sent. This doesn't self-adjust when grades are automatically sent the next day. I have to go in and do it myself, and it only affects some grades and not others. I've never had this issue with assignments on "old quizzes."
4. Almost all of my assignments are built using "old quizzes." If I'm mandated to switch over to "new quizzes," I'm going to be extremely upset at having to redo so many assignments. Unless there is an easy way to transfer one form to another, there are going to be a bunch of ticked off teachers out there.
If these issues have been addressed: Excellent! If not, then they NEED to be fixed before any switch is mandated. Thank you.