"Only Once After Each Attempt"

[draglan]

Hello, 

I am experimenting with letting students view the correct responses to their quizzes and exams. Historically I have not done this because my class is so large that it takes about a week to get everyone quizzed or tested and I want to mitigate answer sharing if I do not have time to formulate an alternative for the late takers. I am trying to figure out what the "Only once after each attempt" option allows students to see. I have read the forum post regarding this question but am unclear about the "definition" given. If this option is selected prior to the quiz opening, will students be able to see their responses AND the correct responses once after the attempt or will they only be able to see their responses only once? Also, if I select this option and select "Let students see the correct responses" will the two work together? For instance, will the students be able to see the correct answers only once after each attempt? Does muting the quiz/exam trump all of these options?

HELP!

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi Debra,

The page at https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10152-415241475 says:

As part of this option, you can restrict students view of the quiz results to Only Once After Each Attempt [5]. Students will only be able to view the results immediately after they have completed the quiz—results include both their responses and the correct answers.

So, if you select the "Let students see correct answers", that means that when students are able to see feedback, they will see correct answers as part of that feedback.  You call also limit that so that the answers aren't shown unless the student is looking at the feedback after (or before) a certain date.  You might do that so that students don't see correct answers until after the due date for the quiz, for instance.

The "Once after each attempt..." setting means that students will only see that feedback one time, immediately after they submit the attempt.  If you has the "...answers" option selected, that feedback will include correct answers, unless you also have date restrictions for the answers and the students are submitting the attempt outside those date restrictions.

Does that make sense?

Mike

[draglan]

I think so. So the two options can work together is what you're saying? What if the scores are muted? 

[kona]

Yes the options can work together. If the quiz is muted the students won’t see ANYTHING after they submit and won’t see anything until after you unmute the quiz. Muting overrides all other quiz settings. 

[draglan]

Hi Kona, 

I'm still finding that these 2 options are not working together in the way that I am hoping and I suspect there's a user error (there typically is with computers) but I cannot figure where I'm going wrong. For instance, I set up a quiz with all three of the following options checked; 

""Let Students See Their Quiz Responses (Incorrect Questions Will Be Marked in Student Feedback)"

"Only Once After Each Attempt"

"Let Students See The Correct Answers"

When I publish the quiz, I set it to be muted in Speed Grader. 

The students are allowed to view their unmuted submissions via Respondus Lockdown Browser but they always alert me that there is an error and I cannot figure out why. From what I can gather in their e-mails, they are not allowed to see their attempts at all even though all the boxes are checked (i.e. since the quiz was muted upon submission, they are not allowed to see anything). 

I mute the submissions so that I have time to clean up any mistakes on my part, without alarming the students of possible grade changes. I want them to be able to view the correct responses only once after the attempt so that they can complete a post exam survey while simultaneously looking at their responses. But I keep failing at this. Please help. 

[pcatasti]

This option is one of several screw-ups in the Canvas quiz.

Those checkboxes should be radio buttons, as the two options do not work together. If you select the option "Only once after each attempt", the other checkbox for "Let students see the correct answers" has the date window greyed out.

There is no way to have the students view their answers only once after a given date. All you can really do is to have the students view their responses and the key, immediately, which is terrible because technically a student could share the key with the rest of the class. Or set a date window in which the students can view the answers and the key, which is the only sensible option.