Program a New Quiz so that answers are released only AFTER the due date/time has passed?

[CraigDuncan]

I'm making the switch from Classic to New Quizzes.  I am teaching an online course that uses daily quizzes. I would like to program each quiz so that students get to see their quiz results -- that is, get to see the questions' text, their chosen answers, and the correct answers -- only AFTER the due date has closed, NOT BEFORE. 

However, I don't see a way to do this with New Quizzes.  In the Settings portion of a New Quiz, I do not see a field that says in effect "Reveal answers on [such-and-such date & time]." Is there really no way to program this in a New Quiz?  

Here is a more detailed explanation of what I have mind:  In the "Restrict student result view" portion of Settings for a New Quiz, if I check the boxes that say to show students their chosen answers and the correct answer, then a student will get this information immediately after submitting his/her quiz, even if it is before the due date/time.  But like most instructors (I presume), I don't want ANY student to have access to the correct quiz answers until ALL students have completed their quiz.  Letting quiz answers circulate among students before the due date facilitates cheating.

As far as I can see, I am forced to use the following manual workaround. If I don't want quiz answers to circulate among students before all of them have taken the quiz (that is, before the due date/time has passed), in "Settings" I have to leave the boxes that say "Show student reponse" and "Show correct answer" as UNCHECKED. Then after the due date/time has passed, I have to manually go back into to each quiz's settings and check those "Show..." boxes and republish the quiz, so that students then can see what questions they got right and wrong and what the correct answers are.

Is that really the only way to keep New Quiz answers from circulating before the due date, but reveal them after the due date? 

Surely for centuries instructors have been withholding exam answers until all exams have been completed, and then revealing the answers to students. So, surely a LMS should allow instructors to program their online quizzes/exams to work like this, without a need for cumbersome manual workarounds.

Am I missing something?

[nwilson7]

@CraigDuncan You are not missing anything.  Delayed release has not been developed into New Quizzes yet so currently the manual way is the only way to pull this off.

You can follow the New Quizzes development here: (at the bottom are a bunch of links)  New Quizzes End of Quarter Update - Q1 2022 - Instructure Community

I know this has come up several times before so hopefully it makes it on the roadmap 😀

Hope this helps!

-Nick

[CraigDuncan]

It seems very strange to me that such basic functionality is missing, especially given that the "New Quiz" format is meant to be an improvement over Classic Quizzes.

I'm not optimistic about this functionality being added any time soon.  For instance, here is a four-page-long Canvas Community thread with 65 commenters making this same complaint about quizzes. The thread is nearly three years old, so the Canvas folks have known about this issue for a while.    😞

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @CraigDuncan 

I completely agree. I totally get wanting to have this option for New Quizzes since the Classic Quizzes engine has it available. I was able to find THIS idea presented on New Quizzes: Show and Hide Quiz Results by Date. 

I don't honestly know why this functionality was left out for New Quizzes. Seems like it might have something to do with New Quizzes and it's LTI functionality(build page).

I am hopeful that this will be part of a new release for New Quizzes in the future. I apologize for the inconvenience on this limitation 

-Colton 

[CraigDuncan]

Hi Colton,

I know this reply is two years late, but just in case you are still interested in this topic, I am writing with a follow up to your post above.

You say in your post that "the Classic Quizzes engine has it available," where "it" = the ability to program Canvas to hide all quiz feedback (i.e. no student responses labeled "incorrect," and no quiz answers revealed) until the due date/time has passed and then automatically release all quiz feedback (student responses labeled correct/incorrect + quiz answers) to everyone after the due date/time.

I don't see how to do this in the Classic Quizzes engine. Your post gives me hope that maybe I am overlooking an option. I see how I can delay the release of quiz answers until a date/time that I program. But to gain access to that date/time programming field for releasing quiz answers, I have to check the box that reads "Let Students See Their Quiz Responses (Incorrect Questions Will Be Marked in Student Feedback)." However, by checking this box, a student will be able to see how they did on the quiz immediately after taking it, even though the quiz due date/time has not passed (and so, some other students haven't turned in their quiz yet). This situation amounts to an unwanted partial release of quiz answers prior to all students being done with the quiz. This is because a student after finishing a quiz learns the correct answers for all of his/her responses not labeled "incorrect," and he/she learns the correct answers for ALL true/false questions (since an "incorrect" T/F response entails that the opposite answer is correct). If that student is unscrupulous, he/she can pass on that info to friends who have yet to take the quiz. I want to prevent that possibility.

Ideally, then, in either Classic or New Quizzes I would like to be able to program a total blackout on all quiz feedback before the due/date time for all students has passed, together with an automatic release of all feedback information once the due/date time for the quiz has passed. Is that possible in the Classic Quiz engine? Your post gave me hope!

Sincerely,

Craig

[SuhasChelian]

I think is the workaround with an example timeline

1. Day 0: Collect quizzes at this time.
2. Day 5: Grade the submissions.
3. Day 7: Re-open the quiz but change settings so that "Let Students See Their Quiz Responses (Incorrect Questions Will Be Marked in Student Feedback)."
4. Day 7: My students say they can see their incorrect responses.  Students can also redo the quiz but you have to ignore new submissions.
5. Day 8: Close the quiz so that future students don't take all the information and the quiz cannot be resubmitted.

[ElizabethGarza1]

I agree - this is a necessary feature for teachers. I had one asking about this today. And I can't use new quizzes in another course I manage because this feature isn't available. Which means I have a different pain point because of classic quizzes. 

[john_svoboda]

Ridiculous this functionality does not exist.  I am forced to use quizzes as exams with remote students and no exam function in Canvas.  Can't limit visibility of answers?  Is this Third Grade???  Oh, right, Canvas is designed for K-12.  Completely inadequate for my graduate course and no other option at my university.