how to use a quiz as extra credit.

[vartouhi_asheri]

I have a quiz set up as graded quiz for 40 points but I want to use that as extra credit. How can I do this? I do not have weighted categories it is straight point system  Please advise.

[James_Kocher_UF · Accepted solution]

The easiest way I can think of is to convert to weighted categories, put everything in one category worth 100%, and then put your EC quiz in its own category worth whatever percentage you want it to be.  So for example, you have 1000 total points and you want the EC to be up to 40 more points, you could make the EC category worth 4%.   Does that make sense?

[kona · Accepted solution]

Making an entire quiz worth extra credit isn't easy in Canvas if you are using a Points based gradebook. The following directions explain how to make this happen:

• Create a quiz
• Provide point values for each question. (making the quiz worth "X" amount of points - the total number of points the extra credit should be worth.)
• Publish the quiz and have the students take it.
• Once all students have taken a quiz and received a score, which is recorded in the gradebook.
• Edit the Quiz and change the Quiz type to a Graded Survey worth "0" points.
• The student will then receive whatever extra credit value they earned.

IMPORTANT: When copying the course it will copy it as a survey - so be sure to Edit and revert it back to a graded quiz for the next term!!

Hope this helps!

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@DianaNguyen -

If you are using new quizzes, can you set the points for the quiz to 0 and then have the questions worth points so that the quiz counts points, but the weight in the gradebook for calculating the grade is 0 points for the quiz (i.e. students would receive 5/0) this would work for weighted or unweighted gradebooks.  I do not know about this method because I do not use new quizzes.

The way I create extra credit quizzes is more work on my part, but I know it works.  This method only applies if you are using weighted gradebooks

I use classic quizzes, so it may be easier in New quizzes using the first method described.  For this method with weighted gradebooks, I create an extra credit assignment group and weight it at 0%.  I then create all extra credit quizzes in that group with regular points.  After the grading is complete on the quiz, I create a regular assignment worth 0 points in the assignment group associated with quizzes (or where ever it will be in your course).  I then export the gradebook and copy the actual quiz scores over to the assignment that is being used to report those scores.

it is more work than I want, but I do not use it too often.

[James_Kocher_UF · Accepted solution]

The easiest way I can think of is to convert to weighted categories, put everything in one category worth 100%, and then put your EC quiz in its own category worth whatever percentage you want it to be.  So for example, you have 1000 total points and you want the EC to be up to 40 more points, you could make the EC category worth 4%.   Does that make sense?

[Stef_retired]

Warning: subjective and editorial comments follow. :smileymischief:

 @James_Kocher_UF ​, your suggested method is by far the easiest way to accomplish this--and for that matter, to create any sort of extra credit assignment in Canvas. I use this method all the time--but then again, I'm a staunch advocate of weighted assignment groups. When we migrated to Canvas a few years back, a total points calculation wasn't even available in the Gradebook, and we seized that opportunity to convert all of our faculty members to assignment group weightings. Students absolutely "get it." They can see their cumulative grade at all times and can take advantage of the "what-if" functionality on their Grades tab.

[hoganwr]

This was exactly what I needed - thanks!!

[EricPeterson]

I find extra credit in Canvas to be very poorly implemented.  In fact, it is not implemented at all.  I don't think your solution works.  It does not end up being real extra credit.  I am still looking for a good solution.

[kona · Accepted solution]

Making an entire quiz worth extra credit isn't easy in Canvas if you are using a Points based gradebook. The following directions explain how to make this happen:

• Create a quiz
• Provide point values for each question. (making the quiz worth "X" amount of points - the total number of points the extra credit should be worth.)
• Publish the quiz and have the students take it.
• Once all students have taken a quiz and received a score, which is recorded in the gradebook.
• Edit the Quiz and change the Quiz type to a Graded Survey worth "0" points.
• The student will then receive whatever extra credit value they earned.

IMPORTANT: When copying the course it will copy it as a survey - so be sure to Edit and revert it back to a graded quiz for the next term!!

Hope this helps!

[schu3752]

When I changed it to a graded survey worth 0 points, their scores are kept but it's telling me to go in and grade all of them? And then I can't click on the grade in SpeedGrader. Is it still affecting their final scores?

[DianaNguyen]

Hello,

I did all as suggested but Canvas does not recognize the scores.  The quiz has an ungraded assignment symbol.

Thank you for your help.

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@DianaNguyen -

If you are using new quizzes, can you set the points for the quiz to 0 and then have the questions worth points so that the quiz counts points, but the weight in the gradebook for calculating the grade is 0 points for the quiz (i.e. students would receive 5/0) this would work for weighted or unweighted gradebooks.  I do not know about this method because I do not use new quizzes.

The way I create extra credit quizzes is more work on my part, but I know it works.  This method only applies if you are using weighted gradebooks

I use classic quizzes, so it may be easier in New quizzes using the first method described.  For this method with weighted gradebooks, I create an extra credit assignment group and weight it at 0%.  I then create all extra credit quizzes in that group with regular points.  After the grading is complete on the quiz, I create a regular assignment worth 0 points in the assignment group associated with quizzes (or where ever it will be in your course).  I then export the gradebook and copy the actual quiz scores over to the assignment that is being used to report those scores.

it is more work than I want, but I do not use it too often.

[ctr_amachsonca]

the solution of using a graded survey didn't work when I just tried it, FYI for anyone else with this question. I would recommend the weighted grade category method instead. 

[RyanKos]

This does not work. 

[tfilipiak1]

This may work.  However, this should be a check box for extra credit.  When is Instructure finally going to add this trivially simple update??????  8 years later and this is still a problem!! 

This work around requires the instructor to carefully go back and change the assignment after the course before posting grades.  It also skews the student scores because it counts the quiz as points until AFTER the end of the assignment!!  (In my case,...the end of the course.) 

This is inexcusably dumb.  When is Instructure going to add extra credit check boxes for quizzes, quiz questions and assignments?????

[clarkem]

Can you make a new quiz worth zero points, but then manually override the score to give it a point value?

[kona]

clarkem​, the only way this would work is if the student got full credit for just attempting the quiz and you weren't assigning points based on the number of correct answers. If you wanted to assign extra credit based on correct answers you have to assign points otherwise you'd have to manually go into Speedgrader and try and figure out how many points each student deserved. In the long run it's probably easier to do what I recommended because you wouldn't need to manually grade every quiz.

[Stef_retired]

And BTW, hello, vartouhi.asherian --nice to see you again! I also wanted to call your attention to this related Canvas Feature Idea:" modifiedtitle="true" title=" Mark a Quiz as Extra Credit

Voting opens tomorrow (Cinco de Mayo)!

[kakanczu]

I like this workaround but won't students be worried if they get a bad grade on the extra credit quiz? It will affect their overall score.

I think one more step to this workaround would be to make sure you mute the quiz grade after it's published so the grade won't affect their overall score in a negative manner.

[Stef_retired]

kakanczu, that's a good idea; muting the grade will keep students from seeing the negative effect on their grade. If you think students will want to see their results on the extra credit quiz, as long as you're using weighted assignment groups and are putting the quiz in an assignment group of its own that is worth 0% of the grade, a bad grade on the extra credit quiz will have no effect on the overall grade; the extra credit quiz will not impact their overall grades until you change the assignment group weighting.

[schutt_j]

Canvas has refused to allow this functionality. There had been a workaround, but they deleted it. We keep trying to get that continent to move.

[kona]

Here's my current work around for extra credit quizzes (and not using weighted assignment groups) - https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-5586-creating-an-extra-credit-quiz?sr=search&searchId=3362f...‌

[JACOBSEN_C]

HI, so your April 30th 2015 workaround above no longer applies?  We're seeing that it probably doesn't...

[JasonRandall · Accepted solution]

I found an easier way to do this than the "solutions" suggest. When making a 'New' type of quiz, create the quiz normally with the total amount of points you want the extra credit quiz worth set on the first 'edit' page of the quiz, and make questions in the 'build' area of the quiz that total points to that first value. After all the students finish taking the quiz, you can then go back to that 'edit' page of the quiz and set the total point value that the quiz is worth at the top of the page to 0 points, and the students will keep the original score in an assignment/quiz that is worth 0 points in the gradebook.

If you were like me and first made the quiz worth 0 points, you can again wait for every student to finish taking the quiz, go to the 'edit' page of the quiz and set the quiz worth the amount of points you want it to be worth, then regrade every question in the quiz from one student's entry (it will regrade every student), and then go back and change the 'edit' page to 0 points and it should update correctly.

There you go. Cheers.