Canvas: Quizzes
This 90-minute workshop will equip staff in the fundamental skills to successfully convert their Blackboard tests to Canvas quizzes.
Description
Quizzes can be used for formative or summative assessment and can be configured to support a range of different learning activities.
Topics include: creating a quiz, question types, setting quiz conditions, providing feedback and grades, and viewing quiz results.
Intended learning outcomes
Participants will have the opportunity to:
- Recognise the contexts of use of Canvas quizzes and question banks
- Create a Canvas quiz with appropriate settings
- Use different quiz question types
- Preview a quiz as a student
- Access student quiz responses and grades
- Provide quiz grades and feedback to students.
Workshop guides
- All Canvas instructor guides
- What quiz types can I create in a course?
- What options can I set in a quiz?
- How do I create a quiz with individual questions?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
- How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I create a True/False quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question?
- How do I create Likert scale quiz questions?
- How do I create a Matching quiz question?
- How do I create an Essay quiz question?
- How do I create a File Upload quiz question?
- How do I create a Text (no question) quiz question?
- How do I create a question bank in a course?
- How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz?
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?
- Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?
- How do I view student results in a quiz?
- How do I view a quiz log for a student?
- What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course?
- How do I create a survey in my course?
- How do I view survey results in a course?
- How do I view practice quiz results in a course?
Register for this workshop
We highly recommend that you have attended Canvas: Getting started before registering for this workshop.
To register for an upcoming workshop explore the faculty and centrally run schedules.
As an optional pre-workshop activity, participants can log in to Canvas at canvas.lms.unimelb.edu.au with their university username and password.
Staff currently have access to a 'Playpen' subject to experiment in, as well as a 'Teaching with Canvas' subject, the space used during Canvas workshops.