Exporting Student Reponses from New Quizzes

[JinxMylo]

I'm trying to find a way to print out a PDF (or csv or other file I can turn into a PDF) of the student responses from a self-evaluation made with New Quizzes so that it can be shared or printed for student conference purposes. I don't see any way to get the student responses out of Canvas at all. The threads asking about the same thing in this forum seem to be from last year, so I'm hoping to see if there's something missing from the update since that time. 

[stimme]

Hi @JinxMylo. The ability to export all student responses is not available in New Quizzes yet. The roadmap on the NQ Hub page lists "Instructors can use detailed student analysis reports to gain deeper insights into student understanding and activity on quizzes." as a goal for Q1 2024 and beyond. I'm sorry to say it will be a while.

[JenniferKolar]

Hello, is there any update on this? we have relied on this functionality to see survey results and see how to improve courses. Losing this capability was not a warning i saw when migrating to new quizes. this was listed on the roadmap for Q1 2024 and we are now in Q4 2024.

[jbuchner]

Same here, after years of just importing old quizzes, I finally lept in only to discover I can't get the csv of student responses. No more new quizzes for me. 

[MichaelMomot]

Not only is this important for student conferences, but I do some of my grading offline.  "New Quizzes" cannot handle the types of responses that I expect from my students, so I export the responses to a *.csv file, run a Matlab check on them, and get the grade from the Matlab program.  Also, this gets around the problem of complex numbers.  For example, if the answer is 1.234+5.678j, I can tell my students to write 12345678 for an answer, and then Matlab can scan the answer, covert it to the proper format (2f6.4) and check it against the correct answer.  Additionally, we could perform our own statistical analysis on the quizzes.  The current analysis is basic.  There are so many advantages to having an export feature that I would expect it to be one of the higher priorities.

[Keromar]

I feel your pain as I rely on this feature for checking digital signatures entered by the students. I guess that I will have to check whether I can do that using the Canvas API now as my institution is forcing me to change to New Quizzes next year :-(.

[govreacl]

We need this feature to see who responded or were given a question that is pulled from a bank. Without the detail of seeing who received/answered the question the faculty have to go through student by student if there is an incorrect answer in the bank for a specific question. In a 200 - 300 enrolled course this is impossible.

[SASchellenberg]

Are you freakin' kidding? I can't believe I allowed myself to assume that one could export student responses from New Quizzes like one can for "old" quizzes. What a crazy assumption on my part. Is Canvas becoming Blackboard? Disappointing. Be better, Canvas . . . . don't release something with new functionality if it drops existing functionality. Not the definition of continuous improvement we are looking for. 

[RachelFrazier]

Hi All, 

Has anyone seen a fix? 

I can hack it by using the moderate button to see individual responses. 

-Rachel

[andrew_ippolito]

Well, I just finished giving a final exam in which I ran out of time to correct the key.  I just went to export data for the first time using New Quizzes, and to my abject horror I see I cannot download student responses so I can manually grade it!

Is there an update on this?  If not, I'm sorry to say that this is one of the many deal breakers for me.

New Quizzes has some great benefits, but ultimately (1) editing is an absolute nightmare when it has more than 40 or so questions (pagination, devs!) and (2) data analyzes and export is sub-par.

I have NO idea what I'm going to do now other than having to manually go into the Speedgrader and change EVERY. SINGLE. ANSWER. of a 126 question exam.

UGH.

[stimme]

In order to finish your grades for this term (assuming grades are due in December), I think you will have to go through SpeedGrader manually. It may be cold comfort right now, but the January 18, 2025 release notes currently include the arrival of Student Analysis reports to New Quizzes.

[StacyTantum]

The student analysis report I downloaded does not include free answer (typed text) responses. Are all responses to all questions available in a different csv/xlsx download? If not, are there plans to extend the student analysis report to include all responses to all questions?  (The free answer responses are most insightful for my use case of quizzes -- without the ability to download the responses in some way, I need to manually cut-and-paste all the responses from SpeedGrader into excel.)

[RebeccaMoulder]

@StacyTantum That's so disappointing! The Essay responses are the primary reason we need the downloadable Student Analysis report. I've done a little testing this morning and am encountering the same thing. I'm going to create a ticket with Instructure support and encourage you to do the same thing.

[jht-salt]

@StacyTatum, I've just checked through this feature too, and our institution really needs free text responses to be included in the csv to enable formative feedback for New Quiz questions.

I will put in a Canvas ticket too as per the suggestion by @RebeccaMoulder.

Additionally, the fact that Student Analysis report generation requires at least 3 responses is also a disappointment. Less that 3 New Quiz responses leads to this message: "There is not enough data available to generate this report. A minimum of 3 submissions is required to generate. Please try again when more submissions are available."

[j_h_tetlow]

@StacyTantum and @RebeccaMoulder please refer to and 'like' the following Canvas LMS 'Idea': https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/New-Quizzes-Student-Analysis-Report-Free-text-questi....

[RebeccaMoulder]

@j_h_tetlow @jht-salt @StacyTantum and anyone else following this thread:

I learned that Essay questions (and I assume any other manually graded question type, such as File-upload) need to be graded before you can generate and download the Student Analysis CSV. That's a big change from Classic Quizzes and it seems unnecessary. I still submitted a ticket, but at least I know it's possible to download Essay responses, just not ungraded ones.

[jht-salt]

Thank you @RebeccaMoulder . I've updated the posted Canvas LMS 'Idea': https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/New-Quizzes-Student-Analysis-Report-Free-text-questi....

[Keromar]

Hi there, maybe stupid question from a newbie here but I could like your post but see no way to "like" your new idea?

[RebeccaMoulder]

Not a bad question at all! There have been a lot of changes to the feature idea/request process recently. I believe this idea has to go through a review process first and then we should be able to like/vote it up and comment.

I shared with our CSM today that we need the ability to download ungraded essay responses because we have a lot of instructors who use quizzes to capture ungraded survey data. Some instructors may also have optional or 0-point essay questions in a quiz or even use the CSV to do off-line grading. There are plenty of use cases for why this is needed.

[j_h_tetlow]

Re: The Student Analysis Report and preserving student anonymity

When New Quiz Marking Anonymity is enabled, the Student Analysis Report is not anonymous i.e. the Student Analysis Report csv file is not anonymous and has Student 'Name' and 'ID' listed in the first 2 columns of the file.

It surely would be expected behaviour that New Quiz anonymity transfers to the Student Analysis Report?

Please could Instructure address this?

[jht-salt]

Re: The Student Analysis Report and preserving student anonymity

I've raised an idea request for maintaining anonymity in the exported csv file report, if it is applied to the marking: New Quizzes - Student Analysis Report - Export csv... - Instructure Community - 633061

[katrina_raciak]

There is now an ability to do this.  But I find that I have to import it into an AI service so customize.