1816 up votes and counting...Canvas admin, O Brother, Where Art Thou? "What we have here is failure to communicate."   ... View more

Respondus is good but finicky.  For example, if you have three questions "1. Fig 1 A BJT item A is...  2. 1. Fig 1 A BJT item B is  3.  1. Fig 1 the BJT is" it considers this an error.  Also, importing graphics/schematics and formatting is a torture.   ... View more

"seriously, it's time for Instructure to step up."  Unfortunately I doubt that happening.  a) scrambling to get everyone online   b) "King of the Hill" mentality.  WordPerfect, Motorola, Xerox, Netscape, Kodak, etc.,  examples abound.  BTW, the online degree places that some may have dissed... who has the last laugh now?  ... View more

And emphasis on "that sort of works"   ... View more

Hello Chris,  That is superb!  A lot of work for you...in addition to all your other IT responsibilities.  FYI I am sending you a solution from another institution. No names.  "I have a work-around; however, the setup takes longer and will involve more work on the instructor's end. It also would also require students to sign up for a test taking time. (It also has more points of failure.) This method uses assignments instead of quizzes. The Canvas Scheduler is used for the students to sign up for a test time and then the instructor has to schedule the exam for each student during that time frame. By using assignments you can annotate the students' papers using Speedgrader and the time limit is enforced because the exam is only accessible to them during that time period--along with a due date There is no easy solution. In both Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes the instructor can create the quiz question(s) on a document, which the student has to download and print. Then they have to scan the completed quiz document (for example, with their phone app) and upload it in Canvas. Students sometimes do not think of emailing the scan to themselves so they don't know how to upload -- then the instructor ends up with tests being emailed to them. When grading in quizzes the instructor must download the documents to grade them. Once they are downloaded, they can annotate and then upload the document in the comments feedback. This method is the most straightforward, believe it or not."  ... View more

> As a Canvas admin and someone who frequently  >loads quizzes/test/exams into Canvas courses for our instructors,  How do you do this...do the instructors give you unrestricted access to their Canvas account?   ... View more

  Thank you for the reply on Canvas LMS Ideas.     > As a Canvas admin and someone who frequently  >loads quizzes/test/exams into Canvas courses for our instructors,  Moraine Park offers this service?  How very impressive!        >the Respondus Exam Authoring Tool has literally saved me hours upon hours or time...Most of the quizzes/tests/exams we get are all text, and so I don't >have the  >opportunity to include images  It was the images that were giving us the most grief.  Text was mostly cut and paste.  Our exams (manufacturing, welding, metals, composite materials, power, electronics, and automation), almost all questions have schematics/drawings,  We had to snip images from Word, save them as JPEG, upload to Respondus, resize, then download to Canvas and resize, format text with image.  Resizing images & reformatting text took forever.  It was just as easy to save images in MyFiles in Canvas and embed them in the question. But that was also one at a time, unless it was a master course; altogether another bailiwick.    I agree with what you say, just like most software, more one uses it,  the better one gets at it.  As program coordinator and instructor, I was "smooth sailing" and polishing our Scantron graded MS Word exam banks.  Overnight we went online and within days we had to develop quizzes exams.  We don't have a "Chris Hofer" here, most of my faculty are uploading exams/quizzes as PDFs in Canvas Modules, and asking students to email back the PDF...the instructors are manually grading PDFs one at a time.  This is just one step above from horse and buggy.  I helped a few of my faculty with Canvas...however, Canvas should have had this Word to Canvas process seamless.  The Ideas Tab/chapter on Canvas was established five years ago, 1700 up votes and is one of the most popular.  I realize coding of Canvas and Word are apples and oranges and the enormity of the seamless transfer.  And the rarity of the types of "Chris Hofer"      Moraine Park is fortunate to have you...and helping instructors during this challenging time.     Again, thank you.   Sincerely, gamini ... View more

We don't have a choice about going to Blackboard.  System-wide it is Canvas.   ... View more

I tried Respondus.  It only adds to the workload.  ... View more

Thanks for posting this.  Suggestions like Respondus, I tried it.  It only adds to the workload.  I made a quiz/exam yesterday on Canvas, cutting an pasting from MSWord, embedding images/schematics, resizing etc.  Four hours for twenty questions.    And this thread has been ongoing for five years.  I don't know about Blackboard, I have read positive comments.  However, I am not about to change platforms, not now.  ... View more