Enabling Teachers to Hide Quiz Scores Until Publication in Canvas

[AbdulKhadar]

We recently conducted a mid-term test using the Quiz application in Canvas, and we encountered an issue. Individual teachers were unable to find the option to hide quiz scores from students until the scores are published. This feature was available from the admin control, but teachers need the ability to manage this within their courses.

Could you please provide guidance on how teachers can hide quiz scores from students until they are ready to publish them? Any additional information on configuring permissions or settings would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[james_whalley · Accepted solution]

When it comes to hiding quiz scores in Canvas, for either classic Quizzes or New Quizzes, there are two areas with settings. For each quiz type, you will want to check the Grade Posting Policy and ensure it is set to Manual. If you have many quizzes, you may want to set the overall course Grade Posting Policy to Manual.

When using the classic Quizzes tool, instructors will want to disable the option Let Students See Their Responses... in the quiz settings.  When using the New Quizzes tool, instructors will want to enable the option Restrict student result view in the quiz settings.

Then, when ready for students to see the results, the instructor can Post Grades in the Gradebook to allow the students to see the overall quiz grade on the Grades page and can allow students to see more detailed results by changing the settings within the individual quizzes.

[AbdulKhadar]

Hi again

As an admin I can manage all these settings from my end. The issue is with individual teachers.They cannot make these settings ,

[james_whalley]

@AbdulKhadar Can you share screenshots of what the teachers see? Off the top of my head, I can't even think of what permissions could be revoked to cause this limitation.

[chriscas]

Hi @AbdulKhadar,

I agree with @james_whalley that you situation seems unusual.  The "Grades - Edit" permission should let teachers enter grades and set the posting policy on their own.  Assuming your teachers can enter grades, they should be able to set the posting policy on their own as well, unless you have some custom CSS/JavaScript in place to restrict that.  The only other thing I could think of that might affect this would be if the courses are blueprint children with perhaps with a lot of locked settings, but an admin wouldn't be able to override those either so that doesn't quite fit the description you gave either.  If you can give any more info, that would be great.  I'm going to mark James' original reply as a solution for now in case others have this question, as his response covers the general info around this.

-Chris