Hi everyone,
I have a student who needed to retake a quiz after it was due. The first time he took the quiz, he had a tech issue and wasn't able to submit any answers. I reopened the quiz for him and gave him an extra attempt. He says he retook it, but I can't find a submission from him that contains his answers. In the gradebook, his grade is a rocket symbol, and I don't know what that means in this case. Assuming the student actually did retake the quiz, where is it?
Thanks!
This was very helpful. Just had this issue. An instructor mistakenly had a 20 question quiz out of 20 points but meant to have a 10 question quiz out of 10 points. We changed the point value for the questions from 1 to .5 so the total wouldn't throw off the grades, but it produced the rocket ship icon. We had to go into speedgrader as James suggested. Scrolled to the bottom of each submitted quiz and clicked "Update Scores." All is now well in the grades.
I know this probably a one-time thing, but I'll put it out here in case some has a similar need at some point. The QuizWiz: Enhancements to SpeedGrader and Quizzes script that Avi Naiman and I wrote could have helped. Certain configurations of it add an "Update and Advance" button to quizzes at the top of the screen. So it would have just been one click per student with no mouse movement and no scrolling. Each click of the button clicks the Update button for you, then clicks the Next student arrow for you. But the big thing is that it duplicates those fudge points and update scores at the top instead of making you scroll all the way to the bottom.
In our InstructureCon presentation this year: Accomplish the Impossible, Kona called QuizWiz the "keyless entry of Canvas" -- the thing that you use so much you don't even realize you're using it until it doesn't work. I use the save rubric and advance feature a lot myself -- it saves the rubric, advances to the next user, and then opens the rubric back up.
I will definitely check out QuizWiz. I'm sure it's awesome. Thanks!
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Nellie Sommer,
The Canvas Instructor's Guide has a page called How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook? that explains what the different icons mean, assuming that you can figure out that a rocket ship means Quiz (although it is labeled as #7 in the image). There was a lengthy discussion about why it's a rocket ship and the difficulty of obtaining a universal symbol for quizzes in the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-07-15) .
From that Instructor's guide:
You should be able to go into SpeedGrader and find the quiz. You can also go to the quiz page and click on Moderation and find it that way. Also, if you mouse over a cell in the gradebook, there should appear a little diamond in the top right corner. Clicking that will open up a dialog box with a link to "More details in the SpeedGrader" and clicking that link will open SpeedGrader directly to that student's quiz.