Put ungraded questions in a graded quiz?

[mtowens]

I have a graded quiz at the end of each week. In the graded quiz, I have some autograded multiple-choice questions, but I would like to include some ungraded free response questions that are just for my feedback, questions like, "What was your muddiest point this week?" This increases the probability that the students do them. Right now, I have them set to be worth 0 points, but I still have to grade them and give the students 0 points each. I have 250 students so this is annoying. So, I am asking for one of two things:

- A way to use spreadsheets or something automated to give everyone who took the quiz 0 points for these questions OR

- A way to tell Canvas in future quizzes that these particular questions are ungraded.

Thanks so much!

[scottdennis · Accepted solution]

Hi Melinda,

I can't think of a good way to have graded and ungraded questions in the same quiz.  Canvas was designed to have graded and ungraded quizzes and surveys but not at the question level.  Have you considered adding an ungraded survey to each week designed to collect this sort of open feedback?

[mtowens]

Thanks! I have a lot of assignments, so I didn't want to over-survey.

[gln103]

Melinda,

I have the exact same scenario.  Did you find a workable solution?

Thanks,

Gary

[dremilyt]

Just here to say "Me too!" Has anyone figured out a way to do this?

[sbailey]

How is this marked solved? The only solution I see in the responses - can't do it, just make separate surveys.

[Chris_Hofer]

@sbailey ...

I have unmarked one of the responses as a "solution" ... as I felt it did not really provide a solution to the original question. When @scottdennis posted his response, that was for current Classic Quizzes in Canvas. As you may know, there won't be any significant updates to Classic Quizzes any more from Instructure because they are focusing their attention on New Quizzes. Normally, I would suggest that you search for or create a new Feature Idea around this type of request so that people have a chance to evaluate it. (Feature Ideas are just one of the ways that Instructure gathers feedback from end users.) However, starting today, the Community Team is temporarily preventing everyone from creating new Feature Ideas so they can do some in-house clean-up and organization. Also, because you are still a "New Member", you need to have a bit more participation in the Community and "rank up" (similar to "leveling up" in video games) so that you could submit new Feature Ideas. Here are some documents that will help:

• Welcome New Members
• Idea Conversations: What Comes Next?
• How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community?
• What is the feature development process for Instructure products?
• How do I create a new idea conversation in the Instructure Community?

Scott's feedback that he provided still holds true today...for both Classic and New Quizzes...which is why his response is marked as a "Solution". Again, any suggestions for enhancements would need to be for New Quizzes and not current Classic Quizzes.

I know this might not be the answer you were looking for, but I hope it helps to explain the reasoning for why things were marked the way they were. Sing out if you have any other related questions...thanks!