Canvas LMS Tutorial: Canvas Quizzes and Quiz Banks

in this video tutorial I want to show you how to use the quizzes feature in canvas and if you haven't already watched my other canvas videos you really should go back and watch those they cover all the basics of getting started using canvas plus much more but in this tutorial let's focus in just on quizzes if you look over here on the right side of this unit 1 module you can see that there's a plus sign if I click that plus sign it enables me to create a quiz a new quiz but rather than jump to that point I think I would rather start somewhere else I'm gonna cancel that for now I'll come back to that later but for now I'm just gonna go here to the left and click on quizzes and it pulls up a screen here with a list of some quizzes that I've used in this course or that I've started using I also get a panel here with a tutorial but I'm gonna close that and I want to get ready to build a nice quiz for my Spanish students and I'm really tempted to click here on add quiz and that is a good thing to click on however before I do I'm going to click here on this gear symbol and notice what pops up there's a button that says manage quiz banks this is a great feature in canvas and so I clicked on that and it takes me to a page where my quiz banks appear and you can see I don't have any question banks so let's add a question Bank I'm gonna go here to the upper right corner and click on add question Bank it wants me to name the question Bank I'll call this los colores the colors and then I'll hit Enter or return on the keyboard so now I have a question Bank but it's blank it's empty so I'll click on los colores it opens up the question Bank and there are no questions listed here let's add a question to the question Bank now before I do that some of you may be wondering why am I even working with question banks why not just build your quiz let's talk about that for a minute what is a question Bank it's a series of questions it's a bank full of questions that you can pull questions from randomly so let's say I'm doing a mid-year exam for my students and I want to test them on everything that we've covered from chapter one through chapter eight but I don't want every student to get the exact same questions maybe I want each student to have to answer five color questions and five adjectives questions and five animal questions etc so I can build a bank of let's say 20 different color questions in here and then each student will be presented with a different five questions from that Bank of twenty different color questions so let's look at how this is done I'm gonna click here where it says add a question and I simply fill in the boxes so I've typed in the question how do you say yellow in Spanish this can be multiple choice true/false it can be fill in the blank numerical answer it can be an essay question all sorts of different things and here you could type in something specific to your question but I'm just gonna call this color question one down here I put in the question itself so how do you say yellow in Spanish that's gonna be my question down here I need to put the correct answer I'm a deal and then some distractor answers okay so I've got four answers and you don't have to have four I could have deleted some of these I want you to notice this little box here for each of the possible answers there's a little box some of them are green some of them are pink or red what this is is it's feedback that I could give back to the student so if the student answers am i real what feedback could I give them I could click here and I could say something like excelente click done what if they give the answer Blanco which is not correct I could go here and put in some feedback and say no sorry lo ciento no I'm sorry Blanco means white so basically you can use this as another opportunity to teach your students it's a wonderful kind of last minute lesson that you can give the students even as they're getting the question wrong you're teaching them so it can be really effective when you're done building the question just click update question and question one is done now I would just continue to add questions I could put dozens of questions in here hundreds of questions in here it's just a bank full of questions give me a minute to add a few more questions and then I'll resume the video okay great now I have five questions but imagine instead of five imagine twenty or thirty or hundred questions in the question Bank now that that's done I could go back to question banks if I wanted to and I could create another question Bank maybe it's Spanish adjectives or maybe it's the Spanish animals or think about this what about having los colores easy so the easier color questions and then another question Bank for harder color questions in Spanish and so that way you could say I'll pull three easier questions and then maybe three harder questions from the two different bangs so there's some really exciting things you can do with this if you start building some good question banks all right so now that I have a question Bank I can go back into my module here module 1 unit 1 I'm gonna click the Add button this time I'll add a quiz new quiz and I'll call this mid-year review right now I only have one group an assignments group but if I had established a quizzes group I would have put it there so I'll just click add item there's my quiz I should publish it and then if I click on the quiz I can see that it's actually completely blank so I need to go in and edit it there's the title of the quiz I could put in some instructions here so that the students know what to expect with the quiz notice that you can mark it as a graded quiz or a practice quiz or other things like surveys there are some great options here I could shuffle the answers I could have a time limit for the students to take the quiz I could allow multiple attempts and if you do notice that you can set it to keep only their highest score or the average of their scores or the latest score how many attempts are they allowed you can limit it to two you can limit it to five whatever you want to do next you can let the students see their quiz responses incorrect questions will be marked in student feedback so there's some options there that you should look at as well if you're interested and then if you want you can require an access code for your quiz next you can assign it to certain students or to all students and then you save now when I save it's gonna save those options but really I still don't actually have a quiz do I so I click to edit yes I've got a title yes I've got a description and I've got options but questions where are my questions if I could here it lists my questions and I don't have any so I could build my quiz question by question I could click here where it says add new question and I could make a question and save it but I love the idea of instead of that why not use the question banks that I've developed or that I'm in the process of developing so if I click here on questions I can go here where it says new question group and this group I'm gonna call it easy colors questions and I want to pick three questions out of the five that I've created each question is worth one point but I could change that if I want to and I'm gonna link to a question Bank when I click on that it lists my question banks and I only have the one so I'm gonna click on it select Bank questions will be pulled from the bank los colores alright now that I've done that I could add another question group and imagine I have another question Bank to pull from I could pull from that other question Bank maybe two questions or three or five or whatever now I can mix up these question groups with just regular straight questions that are not pulled from a group so I can still build questions from scratch and save them and then kind of lose that work I mean it's not really lost but it's not part of a bank so feel free to mix and match question groups from question banks and custom-made questions that you build just for this particular quiz when you're done click Save and this quiz is ready to be taken if I go into settings now and switch to student view this is what the quiz looks like I can click on the quiz click take the quiz and I'm getting a random color question from the easy colors question group there's another question I've got that wrong and another and then I can click Submit quiz now the person sitting next to me takes the same quiz gets different questions okay or if I click take the quiz again I get slightly different questions so in a nutshell that is the quiz features in canvas and how to use quiz banks to randomize the questions that your students see and really to save you work over time I could very easily add five questions a month to my question banks or maybe 50 questions a year etc and pretty quickly these question banks would really become robust and really useful for me and helpful to my 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Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 27 2018