Grading in New Quizzes offers some new functionality, including more question types that can be (re)graded automatically. However, the way students view New Quiz grades does depart from typical Canvas norms: the default setting shows students their results and points earned immediately after they submit a quiz. This setting persists even if students are able to take the quiz multiple times or some questions need to be graded by hand.
This page covers how to grade and regrade in New Quizzes and provides information on how various student view settings in New Quizzes alter what students see after completing the Quiz.
To grade a New Quiz in Canvas, start by navigating to Speedgrader, Canvas’s built-in feedback and grading tool. While the Speedgrader feature might be familiar from working with Assignments or Classic Quizzes, there are a few things to note about grading New Quizzes:
- Unlike in Classic Quizzes, grade by question is not currently available in Speedgrader for New Quizzes.
- Most question types are graded automatically after a student submits the quiz, excluding Essay and File Upload questions which must be graded manually.
How to Regrade New Quizzes
There is a regrading tool in Speedgrader that allows you to change the correct answer or point value for a question. The point value can also be changed for individual answers for questions with varied point values. This method differs from Classic Quizzes, which allows you to regrade a question by editing the question itself.
There are a few limitations to the regrading feature:
- Regrading only applies to completed submissions. If all students will be affected by a regrade, it is recommended that everyone submits their quiz before you regrade.
- Regrading is not available for Essay or File Upload questions. All other question types can be regraded automatically.
- If you need to change the points awarded for an essay or file upload question, you can use the “fudge points” feature in Speedgrader to manually add or remove points from a student’s overall quiz score. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to Adjust Point Using Fudge points in SpeedGrader.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to regrade a quiz in Canvas New Quizzes.
Students’ View of New Quizzes Grades
Very similarly to Classic Quizzes, students can view grades and feedback for an assessment question in New Quizzes on. By default, however, students can view their grades in New Quizzes even if the gradebook Grade Posting Policy setting is set to “Manual.” Below you’ll find a summary of settings to adjust depending on what you want students to see, and screenshots that illustrate what students see based on the restriction settings the instructor enables.
To make sure results are not visible when they should be hidden, instructors need to:
- Use a manual grade posting policy on the Quiz, if not the whole course, and not post the grades. If grades have been posted, students will see their grade and any sidebar comments entered in Speedgrader even if Hide Results is on.
- Turn on Hide results from students (by default it is turned off, so results are visible). Even if the grades have not yet been posted, when Hide Results is turned off any time after taking a quiz, a student can see how many points they earned out of the total, their percentage score, the text of all questions, their answers and whether or not they were correct, and how many questions remain to be graded.
To make sure students can see results, instructors need to:
- In Quizzes > [Name of Quiz], make the sure availability period is still open (students won’t be able to change their answers, and as long as they don’t have remaining attempts in the Quiz, they won’t be able to take it again)
- In Quizzes > [Name of Quiz] > Build > Settings, make sure Hide Results from Students is either turned off (to show everything), or left on, with settings below selected to show what you would like to be visible.
- In the Gradebook, post the grades, if the grade posting policy is manual (or have set it to automatic)
- Let students know to click on the Quiz itself rather than in Grades, to see results
Options for Restricting Students’ View of Grades
By default, the “Hide results from students” option is not selected in New Quiz settings. To prevent students from seeing the grades, activate this option in individual quiz settings. Below you’ll find screenshots that illustrate what students see based on the restriction settings the instructor enables.
Default Setting: Student Results View is Unrestricted
When the student result view is not restricted, immediately after completing their Quiz students see their percentage grade, the number of points they received out of the total possible number of points available, and how much time they spent on the quiz. They can also see whether or not they got any automatically-graded questions correct and feedback associated with each question.
Students Result View is Hidden
You can simply enable the Hide results from students function in the Quiz Settings.
When the student result view is simply hidden, after students complete a quiz they receive a notice that the quiz was submitted and that further results are not displayed due to instructor settings.
Hide Results from Student View But Share Particular Data with Them
After restricting student view, you have the choice to give students view access to particular data points.
You can restrict student view and select “Show points awarded.”
In which case, upon submitting the quiz, students see how many points they earned.
You can restrict student view and select “Show points possible” as well as “Show Points Awarded.”
In which case, after submitting students see their percentage score for the quiz and how many points they got out of the total possible points.
You can restrict student view and select “Show questions.”
In which case, students see the questions once more after submitting the quiz.
You can restrict student view, then select “show and questions” and “show student responses”
In which case, after submitting students see the quiz questions and their responses to the questions.
Additionally, you may also choose to release student responses after a specific attempt or during a specific time frame.
Along with “show questions” and “show student responses,” you can select “indicate response as correct or incorrect.”
In which case, after submitting students see the quiz questions, their response to each question, and whether or not that response was correct.
You can select “show questions,” “show student response,” and “indicate response as correct or incorrect,” and “show correct answer”.
In which case, after submitting students see the list of quiz questions, their response, whether that response was correct, and the correct answer of any questions they answered incorrectly.
Additionally, you may also choose to release the correct responses after a specific attempt or during a specific time frame.
You can select “show items and questions,” “show student response,” “indicate response as correct/incorrect,” “show correct answer with incorrect response,” and “show item feedback.”
In which case, after submitting students see the list of quiz questions, their response, whether that response was correct, the correct answer to any questions they answered incorrectly, and any feedback included on the questions.
As a reminder, by default “Hide Results from Students” is turned off and students have access to the following: points awarded per question, their responses, correct/incorrect answers and Item feedback, even if a manual grade posting policy applies in the gradebook. Students may still view their quiz grades in the Gradebook when the Restrict student result view option is enabled. To hide grades from students in the Gradebook, you need to enable a manual posting policy for that particular quiz in the Gradebook.