Tip #3 - Use Canvas Quizzes for Exams and More!
What are Canvas Quizzes?
When most people think of quizzes, they think of a short question-based assessment students take online or in class. However, the "Quizzes" tool in Canvas can meet a wide range of assessment needs. Instructors can easily use the Canvas Quizzes tool to create exams, finals, practice tests, and surveys. These assessments can incorporate auto-graded question types that include multiple-choice, true or false, and fill-in-the-blank, as well as open-text responses that require manual grading.
How Can Canvas Quizzes Help Instructors Craft Assessments?
The Quizzes tool gives instructors a practical option for creating, delivering, and storing midterms and final exams. Canvas Quizzes can be easily edited and duplicated from one-course section to another. Student scores on graded assessments automatically go to the Gradebook, where instructors can view them in a centralized place and edit them as a group or individually. Instructors can import, save, and draw from item banks including publisher test banks.
Canvas Quiz Statistics provide data and visualizations that instructors can use to reflect on and refine future quizzes and quiz questions, including the highest and lowest quiz scores, the average amount of time spent in a test, and the distribution of student responses. Additionally, the "Discrimination Index" feature can help identify possible concerns with quiz questions by presenting the correlation between how well students scored on a singular quiz question and their overall score on the whole quiz – gauging whether students who otherwise did perfectly well were equally likely to get tripped up by this question.
How Can Canvas Quizzes Help Students to Achieve Learning Outcomes?
Canvas Quizzes can expand student opportunities to practice and demonstrate mastery. Aside from offering a variety of question types to make assessments more reliable, efficient, and engaging, Canvas Quizzes can provide students with immediate feedback. Quiz answers in an ungraded practice or regular quiz can be set to reveal the correct option to students instantly or following the quiz. Answers can also be set to reveal tailored feedback for each option to enhance student understanding. With Canvas mobile, students can efficiently take assessments on their phones in class to complete a pre-class reading check or survey.
In this weekly Canvas tip, we have uncovered some possibilities for creating assessments in the Quizzes tool. You can also check out the following resources published by Instructure (the makers of Canvas):
Video Guides published by Canvas:
Quizzes Overview (Instructors) - Instructure Community (Links to an external site.)
Guides published by Canvas:
What are Quizzes? (Links to an external site.)
Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available? (Links to an external site.)
What options can I set in a quiz? (Links to an external site.)
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