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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.
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)
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)
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)
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.
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.
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:
Quiz Item Information:
Quiz Performance Summary:
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.
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.
Updates on the Known issue related to course files in item banks can be found in this blogpost.
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:
Issues that we are currently investigating:
Here is a list of the related fixes or features that we completed in the past quarter:
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Dana has been in education for over a decade. As a former classroom teacher, she is aware of students’ and teachers’ needs in a classroom setting. Now, as a product manager, she works on tools that facilitate learning and assessment in the classroom.
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