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Heterochromatic · ‎10-11-2022

HAS THIS BEEN SOLVED YET? My grading life has been a nightmare for years now without this feature. Made worse because canvas is sooooo picky about the files it accepts. This pdf, made on a PC using microscoft something or other YES. This pdf made on an ipad NO. And no chance for individual students to change the format and upload another attempt. It is hell. I am begging canvas, PLEASE fix it. Add a "moderate this assignment" button like for quizzes and allow me to go in and change parameters for individual students. PLEEEEEEEEEASE.

Heterochromatic · ‎04-21-2022

HEY CANVAS this is the third time I have needed to allow ONE student an additional attempt at an ASSIGNMENT (not a quiz) and there seems to be no way to do it if you limit the submissions for the whole class. The student currently has to email me the assignment, then I have to take screenshots, grade on separate screenshots each page on my iPad, and then send each page back to the student. Cumbersome, to put it mildy. PLease fix this. CHeers.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-16-2021

Hi there, The only way I can guard against cheating online (without using creepy software) is to require students to write descriptive answers in their own words (where I can check for plagiarism, shared answers etc). (I also have a section of mult choice etc questions drawn randomly from banks etc but students just get together and share those answers on Discord and I am none the wiser), BUT - I want to MINIMIZE WHAT THEY WRITE in the text box. I am trying to stop them from driveling on endless rubbish for which they demand part marks. I THINK (but am not sure) there is a limit of 1600 characters? But that is still 200-300 words. Any way I can force shorter, concise answers? TIA.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-09-2021

Thanks, lamplighter II. I don't pull from existing test banks; I write my own Qs. I must confess this is still a bit of a mystery, and I'm just not taking chances. I just won't ever pull more than one question from a given bank. Tedious, but there you go.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-09-2021

Thanks. I do have a number of basic quantitative questions that I formulated in Excel and added to Canvas. But harder to do that with the more qualitative Qs. But thanks for the advice.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

Yes the individual questions are in their own bank. There is no MAIN question bank. Just lots of banks covering twenty to thirty different aspects of the course I teach. Doesn't seem to be any way to make SURE that when canvas is asked to draw two questions at random from a bank containing 5 unique questions, canvas DOESN'T decide to choose say, question 1 twice. Maybe I am still not being clear.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

That should have read: "Seems to me the unique ID COULDN'T be coincidentally duplicated..."

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

The new quiz will typically be a combo of individual Q and question groups. For the groups I draw questions from my question banks. I have made all these questions myself; they are not imported from anywhere. Seems to me that the unique ID number could be coincidentally duplicated, when the question is entirely different....I don't know. I think I just have to play safe, and just make millions of banks and only draw one question from each bank. What a pain. Thanks anyway.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

Assuming this cannot be answered (I am not the only one who has asked this) the only work around I can find is to make MORE NUMEROUS banks and only draw one question (NEVER MORE THAN ONE) from each bank when making a group question in a new quiz. I just don't trust it. Tedious.

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

OK. There are NO DUPLICATES in the bank. So technically, I guess, this IS possible. What is the "ID"?

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

Thank you, BUT, my question banks do NOT contain duplicates. I have 100+ different question banks each with several unique questions in them. Overall, yes, 1000s of unique questions. When I draw, say, 5 questions from a specific bank that contains several (more than 5) unique (ie., NOT duplicated) questions, canvas will pull randomly from them when I make a new quiz question BUT SOMETIMES CANVAS PULLS THE SAME QUESTION FROM THE SAME BANK TWICE. So the student gets two identical questions. Am I more clear now?

Heterochromatic · ‎01-07-2021

Hi there, I have read multiple posts and cannot find a clear answer. If I ask canvas to pull say, 5 questions from a bank of 10 questions for a new question group in a new quiz, how to I make sure that Canvas does NOT pull duplicate questions from the bank? This has happened, and not just to me. It seems like it should be a straightforward fix to program Canvas to pick 5 different Qs from a bank that has more than 5 Qs in it. Thanks.

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