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melissa_kamp · ‎09-27-2022

We have students that use the To Do list in the Canvas app to track upcoming assignments. Students are reporting that assignments that are completed are not correctly showing as completed on the To Do list. This is primarily happening with assignments that are built using a n external tool integration (EdPuzzle) -- students either complete the assignment through the integration OR are manually given points for completion by attending a synchronous class session. When the instructor manually adds the grades for these assignments, this does not remove them from the student To Do list in the app. Any suggestions on how to ensure that when assignments are graded manually rather than through the LTI that they report properly as completed on the To Do list in the Canvas student app?

melissa_kamp · ‎05-06-2021

Good morning, For Parts B anc C, you could build each of these parts as single 10-point essay questions and include both question options. Then students would select and answer one of the two questions provided for the part and indicate which option they chose in their response. I have built tests this way to include a similar element of student choice (rather than students randomly being given one of the two questions as they would if this were set up as a question block), and it has worked well. Best! Melissa

melissa_kamp · ‎03-22-2021

Thanks for chiming in, @Chris_Hofer! The faculty was not using a graded survey -- turns out that it was a bug that resolved itself once the quiz was edited and resaved.

melissa_kamp · ‎03-17-2021

I am working with a faculty who created and administered a quiz built with the Classic quiz tool. Her quiz has 25 questions -- 1 point each, and this point total displays on the quiz and in the results reported from students taking the quiz. Students' scores are reporting in the corresponding gradebook column, however, the total points in the gradebook column header shows the total points possible as"Out of 0," inflating students' total grades in the course. Any ideas as to why this might be happening and how it can be fixed? Thanks!

melissa_kamp · ‎01-08-2021

I stand corrected . . . it only looked like it worked. When I now try to click on the quiz link, I get a screen that says that it is still copying the assignment along with a never-ending spinning blue circle. This needs a fix!

melissa_kamp · ‎01-08-2021

I just had quizzes created with the New Quizzes search engine also not import, and clicking on the "Retry" button that appears after trying to process for far too long gained me nothing. This tool is a huge disappointment on many fronts. The only resolution that I could reach is to go back to the oritinal course, use the optionsmenu to the right of each quiz title, and use the "Copy to . . ." functionality. This did work quite quickly, but it needed to be done individually for each quiz.

melissa_kamp · ‎12-11-2020

I've not yet come up with a solution, so we opted to rebuild the exam. This solution was not ideal, but we didn't have time to wait as exams are happening this week.

melissa_kamp · ‎12-04-2020

How many dropdown items (possible answers) can be added to a single fill in the blank item that has the dropdown option selected?

melissa_kamp · ‎12-01-2020

I am trying to import an exam created with New Quizzes from another course. Any quiz/exam created with this tool cannot be exported/imported individualls as a QTI file like Classic Quizzes could. So, I've tried importing the entire course from which I want to copy the exam and only select the content for the New Quiz exam during the import. (New Quizzes show up under Assignments, not Quizzes, in the Select Content import function.) Good so far . . . however, when I clicked into the copy of the exam that supposedly imported into my other course, all I get is a blank screen with a spinning blue circle with "Copying assignment." This has been going on for over 45 minutes, and the exam wasn't more than 50 multiple choice quesitons. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? Is there a better way to copy a New Quiz from one course to another? Is it even possible? While New Quizzes has some nice question types and a good student user interface, the New Quizzes tool is NOT an upgrade for instructional designers who are working behind the scenes to try and make them work. You cannot easily migrate quizzes from Classic that use question banks. To migrate, the banks first need to be built as a Classic quiz using all the questions in an existing Classic bank (one for each bank). Then the "bank" needs to be exported as a Classic Quiz (QTI file - one at a time for each bank). A New Quiz needs to then be created in order to import the question banks as item banks in New, then build out the New quiz with item banks . . . . it is a labor intensive nightmare. New Quizzes do not work with Respondus, leaving no other option than to either build it out every question manually or using the magical migration process noted above. Item banks are tied to accounts rather than to courses, so any item bank work I do as an instructional designer needs to be shared with the specific faculty (each bank shared - but they are still only shared, not owned by the faculty) or I need to work signed in as the faculty so that they can "own" the item banks in their courses. W hat happens when a course with a New Quiz built with item banks is copied and a different instructor teaches it . . . does it automatically copy the items banks to this new instructor? I have no idea. I've heard that the New Quizzes timer overrides the available until date -- is this correct? So if the student starts the quiz late, they will still get the allotted time regardless of when the "until" date is set -- it does not auto submit when the "until" date has passed. I've also heard that even though a timer is set, students can exit the quiz (timer stops) and resume the quiz (timer starts again) as many times as they want. This means by simply exiting and resuming the quiz multiple times, students can extend their time to take the quiz as it only counts down when actually signed in. Is this correct? (Though I would assume that if they tried to resume the quiz after the "until" date has passed, they would be stuck with an uncompleted quiz.) Am I missing something about New Quizzes that makes it an effective tool for course building and maintenance? I'd love to hear some pros, because the cons seems to be stacking up.

melissa_kamp · ‎10-08-2020

Did you enter the code in the Rich Content Editor? Or in the HTML Editor? The code needs to be adjusted using the HTML editor as seen in the following snippet for this to work: Text or article reference goes here. So your adjusted code with references added would look like this: Hipson, W. E. & Séguin, D. G. (2015). Is good fit related to good behaviour? Goodness of fit between daycare teacher-child relationships, temperament, and prosocial behavior. Early Child Development and Care, 186(5), 785-798. <a href="https://doi-org/10.1080/03004430.2015.1061518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi-org/10.1080/03004430.2015.1061518</a>   Smith, S. J. (2020). Windows into the history & philosophy of education. Kendall Hunt.  Vaz, S., Wilson, N., Falkmer, M., Sim, A., Scott, ...<a href="https://doi-org//10.1371/journal.pone.0137002" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://doi-org//10.1371/journal.pone.0137002</a> Hope this helps! Melissa

melissa_kamp · ‎10-02-2020

Correct! 🙂

melissa_kamp · ‎10-02-2020

This response may be rather late, but there are many benefits to cross listing a course. As you mentioned, cross listing funnels students from two or more sections into a single Canvas course so the faculty only needs to keep one site current. This helps create a consistent learning experience across sections, but it does allow the faculty to use settings as needed to: Assign assignments or set due dates by section. Filter the gradebook by section. Send announcements by section. Set up groups or peer reviews by section. It is a great option for faculty teaching multiple sections of the same course.

melissa_kamp · ‎10-02-2020

Yes! While this functionality is not available within Canvas settings/tools, you can set up a widget using the RSS Feed URL available in Announcements and embed the widget anywhere on the page. To do this: Create an account in FeedGrabbr. (You can create a free account and create one widget to give it a try -- additional widgets will require an upgraded account. There are other widget creators as well . . . this is just the one that I've used.) Go to your Canvas course and click on Announcements > External Feeds > RSS Feed > then copy the URL from the browser bar. In FeedGrabby, select your widget template and paste the RSS Feed URL into the Content section. Then you can set the size and style of your widget. (You may want to play around with this a little bit so that the widget displays your announcements well.) When you are finished with the widget design, select "Get embed code" and copy the IFrame code. Return to your Canvas site and edit the page where you'd like to add the announcement feed. Place your cursor where you'd like to add the widget, click on the Insert/Edit Media icon, select the Embed tab, and paste in the embed code from FeedGrabbr. Click OK. After you save the page, you should be good to go! The widget will update with your latest announcements.

melissa_kamp · ‎09-17-2020

I tried this out today, and it worked perfectly. Thank you!

melissa_kamp · ‎09-10-2020

We have been working out how to migrate our quizes from Classic to New. While a quiz can easily be migrated (though I do not know for sure what features may be lost in the process), the problem comes in when you have quizzes created from question banks. Currently it looks like our best option for migration is to create quizzes in Classic for each bank that we have using the "Add Questions" feature so that all the questions have been added. Then we export a copy of this quiz from Canvas. We then import the quizzes into New Quizzes as an Item Bank and recreate the quizzes from there. It is a lot of hoops to jump through, but at least we won't lose the ability to use the questions that we already have.

melissa_kamp · ‎09-10-2020

Are you using New Quizzes? (Since the end of life for Classic Quizzes is coming up in the next year, I'd recommend starting with new Quizzes.) In either case, you will need to edit the quiz and select "Add" in the due dates box to provide different due dates/times and availability dates/times (see https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-assign-an-assignment-to-an-individual-student/ta-p/717). To get back to these initial assignment settings in New Quizzes, you need to edit the quiz from the options icon to the right of the assignment title (see https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-edit-a-New-Quizzes-assessment/ta-p/582). You can also moderate the quiz for specific accommodation. The following guide provides a good explanation of what moderation options are available: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-moderate-a-student-s-assessment-attempt-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/655 Hope this helps! I have found the guides to be pretty handy and accurate. Best! Melissa

melissa_kamp · ‎05-07-2020

@hhartkopf ‌, I was just troubleshooting this same issue in one of our courses, and the only way I could get the score to update within SpeedGrader is to click the "Update" button as you did, then refresh the screen -- this refresh then populated the updated score into the sidebar. I then clicked "Submit" just to be sure it worked. While this is not ideal, it is easier than also having to repopulate the updated scores in the GradeBook manually. This really needs to be fixed by the New Quizzes team!

melissa_kamp · ‎02-28-2020

This is fantastic -- thank you!!

melissa_kamp · ‎02-21-2020

Thanks for sharing this! I tried it out, and it worked beautifully. However, I needed to run the snippet for each student's quiz submission. (There is a still a manual component to getting this to work as each student's grade needs to be run through an update, and it can only be completed after students take the quiz.) Is this correct? Or am I missing a step? I am a novice when it comes to code snippets and dev consoles, so any help would be appreciated.

melissa_kamp · ‎11-12-2019

Stephanie, is this a two-step process when adding an existing rubric to a discussion? (Must I both add the rubric and then edit the existing rubric after it is added to ensure the "Use for grading" box is checked?) I assumed that this was accomplished when I clicked on "Use this rubric" when selecting the existing rubric, but when I then "edited" the rubric to confirm the setting, I was surprised to find that it did not default to "Use for grading." Thanks!

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