Over the past quarter, we've made strides in enhancing the New Quizzes experience with several updates. One of the highlights is the introduction of Custom Feedback, allowing instructors to provide personalized feedback to students after quiz completion. This feature enriches learning by guiding students on next steps and reinforcing core concepts. We've also expanded the New Quizzes API with scoped endpoints, giving administrators more control over token access.
Looking ahead, we're excited to bring even more flexibility for managing student results, including the ability to adjust visibility settings and tailor quiz experiences to student needs. Additionally, new features like the ability to add time to in-progress quizzes and seamless migration of question banks will further streamline the assessment process for educators.
Q3 Achievements
Show Custom Feedback with Results
Custom Feedback in New Quizzes allows instructors to provide personalized feedback to students after they complete a quiz. This feature helps reinforce key concepts, guide next steps, and enhance understanding.
Instructors can toggle the “Show custom feedback with results” option in the Settings, then add feedback using the Rich Content Editor. By default, this option is off. Once enabled, custom feedback is displayed to all students on the Results page after they finish the quiz.
This functionality was released to production environments on August 17. (Release notes)
Scoped Endpoints for New Quizzes API
New Quizzes endpoints are now available in token scopes when adding an API Key for admins. This update allows admins to restrict API token access to specific endpoints, ensuring more controlled and secure API interactions. These endpoints can be selected within the token scopes when creating an API Key.
This functionality was released to production environments on September 19. (Release notes)
Q4 2024 Objectives
Manage Student Results View
We expanded the options for managing student results view settings. Instructors can now control when to show student responses and whether to indicate if responses are correct or incorrect. Additionally, instructors have the flexibility to limit response visibility to once after each attempt, only after a student’s last attempt, or only once after the final attempt. Time restrictions are now managed with clear date and time fields, providing more options for tailoring the quiz experience to student needs.
Hiding Results from Students is available on the Settings page and disabled by default. When enabled, instructors can control what students see after completing a quiz. Main options include displaying questions, possible points, and awarded points. The visibility of questions and responses can be customized based on attempts and specific time frames. Additionally, there is an option to show correct answers, either immediately or only after the student’s final attempt, with flexible “Show on” and “Hide on” dates.
This functionality is being released to production environments on October 19. (Release notes)
Add Time to In-Progress Quiz Attempts
We’re enhancing the quiz management experience by allowing instructors to add additional time to a quiz in progress. Soon, educators will be able to provide just-in-time accommodations for students while they are actively taking a quiz. This improvement ensures a more equitable assessment process, eliminating the need for instructors to rely on workaround solutions to extend time during an active quiz session.
Question Bank Migration on Course Copy
We’re improving the New Quiz migration process by adding additional support for question banks. Soon, educators will be able to seamlessly migrate their Question Banks to Item Banks in New Quizzes using Course Copy. This enhancement offers a straightforward alternative to the workarounds currently required for those who rely heavily on Question Banks for quiz content management. With this additional bank migration support, all existing quizzes and question banks will be imported as New Quizzes with a single check during course copy.
Student Analysis CSV Export
Last year, we introduced Quiz Item Analysis, and now we’re excited to announce upcoming improvements to Student Analysis in New Quizzes. The Student Analysis report will be available via the user interface for CSV export, providing comprehensive insights into student behaviors and outcomes in New Quizzes.
Data points to be included in the report are as follows.
Student Information:
- Name
- ID
- SISID
- SectionID
- SectionSISIDs
- Submitted
- ElapsedTime
- Attempt
Quiz Item Information:
- ItemID
- ItemType
- Item-specific columns for each item in the quiz (Question, EarnedPoints)
Quiz Performance Summary:
- numberOfCorrect
- numberOfIncorrect
- NoResponse
- OverallScore
Reporting API
We’re developing additional API endpoints to give access to Quiz Item and Student Analysis reports, making it easier to facilitate internal reporting and analysis.
Canvas Commons
We are continuing our efforts to make it easier to share your New Quiz content with other educators. As part of that effort, we are working to support sharing through Canvas Commons.
Course files in Item Banks Known Issue update
Updates on the Known issue related to course files in item banks can be found in this blogpost.
Blue Printing & Course Copy Issues
Over the past few months, we have noticed that our customers have had an inconsistent experience as they use the blueprint, send to, and copy to features with New Quizzes. We have identified root causes and plan to deploy code in the next release to resolve many of the issues.
Fixes targeted to be released by mid November:
- Common Cartridge exports will complete even if New Quizzes fail to export
- Quizzes shared using the 'Send to' workflow will import correctly
- Resolved import issue that lead to failures or quizzes imported with no items
Issues that we are currently investigating:
- New Quizzes syncing from Blueprints without questions
- New Quizzes are failing to duplicate and instead return an error of "Oops! Something went wrong with making a copy of "
- A New Quiz is stuck in “Copying assignment...” after syncing from the blueprint course
Quarter 3 Completed Fixes and Features
Here is a list of the related fixes or features that we completed in the past quarter:
- The quiz migration alert is now displayed only when there are quizzes to migrate
- An info page is now shown to students when they open an untaken quiz in a concluded course
- Quiz results in concluded courses can now be viewed by students
- Formula questions with multiple variables are now imported and exported as expected
- Strikethrough icons are now used for Choice Elimination
- Accessibility
- Clear error messages are now provided when creating stimuli
- Clear error messages are now provided when adding questions to an item bank
