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Students match answers from a drop-down menu.

Matching

2.0 = Inline Choice

Students place answers in the correct categories.

Categorization

2.0 = Match Table Grid

Students type brief, short, or extended responses.

Essay

2.0 = Text Entry and SCR

Students upload file(s).

File Upload

NOT STAAR 2.0

Students select one answer from a list of answers.

Multiple Choice

NOT STAAR 2.0

Students type missing word(s) or phrase(s).

Fill in the Blank

2.0 = Inline Choice

Students select true or false for a given statement.

True/False

NOT STAAR 2.0

Multiple Answer

Students select multiple answers from a list of answers.

2.0 = Multiselect

Students assigned randomly generated math problems.

Formula

NOT STAAR 2.0

Ordering

2.0 = Drag & Drop

Students place answers in a specific order.

Students select one specific area of a graphic.

Hot Spot

2.0 = Hot Spot & Text

Students type numbers, text, and/or symbols.

Numeric

NOT STAAR 2.0

Grading and Feedback

Settings and Moderation

Getting Started

Stimulus

Students analyze provided stimulus to answer questions.

2.0 = ECR & More

New Quiz Data Reports

New Quiz Item Banks

Sharing New Quizzes

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Stimulus

In a Stimulus item type, instructors can:

• Provide students with a stimulus including PDFs, images, text, Google Drive items, and more.

• Attach questions (all item types available) to a stimulus for students to demonstrate their understanding.

• Note: If a question is not attached to the stimulus, the stimulus will not appear in students' quizzes.

Instructure by Canvas Stimulus Item How-To Guide

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Manage Settings

Manage and adjust the following New Quiz Settings and Moderations (accommodations):

• Teachers can provide individual student accommodations such as extra time, multiple attempts, and eliminated answer choices through the Moderation tab in New Quizzes.

• Adjust the default New Quiz Settings to:
• Restrict student response view after submission
• Shuffle questions and answers
• Set time limits
• Require student access code to take the quiz
• And more!

Accomodations

Settings

Check out the Instructure's Guide to New Quizzes Settings and Moderation

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Essay

In an Essay question, students are required to enter a text response.

• Instructors can set word count, word limit, spell-check, and Rich Content Editor options for students’ essay responses.

• Use grading notes as a reference to help you grade student responses.

• Note: Students can still submit their quiz attempt even if the essay questions minimum and/or maximum word limit is not met.

Instructure by Canvas Essay Question How-To Guide

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Sharing New Quizzes

Easily share and reuse New Quizzes within a course or across courses and with colleagues: Copy a Quiz to Another Course

• Copy any New Quiz to another Canvas course where you're a teacher.
• All quiz content, including images and files, is included in the copy.

Send a Quiz to Another Instructor

• Share quizzes directly with other teachers.
• They can import the quiz into their course and make modifications as needed.

Copy a Quiz Between Courses

Sharing Quizzes with Teachers

Quickly duplicate quizzes to reuse them in multiple sections or terms.

File Upload

In a file upload question, students upload file(s) to a question.

• Instructors can limit the number of files and the file extension types that can be uploaded by students.

• Duplicate File Upload questions to create a new question.

• Note: DocViewer commenting and annotations tools are not available when grading file upload submissions in SpeedGrader.

Instructure by Canvas File Upload Question How-To Guide

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Matching

In a matching question, students match answers from a drop-down menu with a list of questions.

• Instructors can choose to award partial credit or require an exact match for Matching questions.

• The partial credit option awards points for each correct answer selected. Exact match awards full credit only if all correct answers are selected and no incorrect answers are selected.

Instructure by Canvas Matching Question How-To Guide

Quiz & Item Analysis

The following data reports can be generated with Canvas New Quizzes: Quiz and Item Analysis

• Includes statistics for the entire quiz and individual items.

Outcomes (TEKS) Analysis

• Includes outcome mastery statistics for all students who took the quiz.

Individual Student Quiz Results

• View student quiz attempt(s) results within each quiz by viewing the moderate page in New Quizzes.

Check out best practices for using New Quiz data to drive instruction!

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Grading and Feedback

Grading with Speedgrader

Grading and providing feedback in Canvas New Quizzes is designed to be fast, flexible, and insightful.

• Grading Made Easy
• Most question types are automatically graded, saving you time!

• Essay and file upload questions require manual grading in SpeedGrader​
• Use regrading to change correct answers or point values, with multiple options for applying changes​

• Providing Meaningful Feedback
• Add customized feedback for each question or answer choice to guide student learning​

Providing Feedback

Use SpeedGrader to regrade quiz questions, adjust point values, and more!

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Multiple Answers

In a multiple-answers question,

• Instructors can choose to award partial credit with penalty or require an exact match.

• The partial credit with penalty option awards points for each correct answer selected and deducts points for each incorrect answer selected.

• Exact match awards full credit only if all correct answers are selected and no incorrect answers are selected.

Instructure by Canvas Multiple Answers Question How-To Guide

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Ordering

In an ordering question, students place answers in a specific order.

• Instructors can include top and bottom labels to the list to help students know in which order they should place their responses.

• Students must order all items correctly to earn full points. There is no option to assign partial credit for Ordering questions.

Instructure by Canvas Ordering Question How-To Guide

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Fill in the Blank

In a fill-in-the-blank question, students type in the missing word(s) or phrase(s) to complete a statement.

• Use the drop-down option and enter a statement and surround a word with backticks to indicate where a user will fill in the answer (e.g., "Roses are `red`, violets are `blue`")

• Each blank space is given a point value calculated by dividing the total points possible by the number of blank spaces. Correct answer choices are awarded this point value and no points are subtracted for incorrect answers.

Instructure by Canvas Fill in the Blank Question How-To Guide

Getting Started

Canvas New Quizzes allows teachers to:

• Create formative, summative, or check for understanding assessments.

• Develop creative questions to check for understanding with a total of 13 question types.

• Create self-grading assessments with the right combination of question types.

• Provide the following accommodations: On-screen calculator, Time Adjustments, Additional Attempts and Reopening the Quiz.

Check out Instructure's Guide to New Quizzes

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New Quiz Item Banks

Manage Item Banks

Creating an Item Bank

Item Banks in Canvas New Quizzes allow teachers to:Create & Manage Item Banks

• Store and organize questions for easy use across multiple quizzes and courses.
• Share banks with colleagues or courses with customizable access permissions​

Flexible Question Options

• Add individual items or random sets from your bank to quizzes​
• Move, copy, or edit questions within item banks to keep your content fresh.

Maximize Assessment Efficency

• Randomize questions for each student to reduce test bias
• Edit questions in the bank to update quizzes automatically​

Assign Bank Content

Using Bank Content

Sharing Item Banks

Manage Bank Items

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Formula

In a formula question, instructors create math problems where variables are randomly generated for students.

• Identify variables in your question with backticks. (e.g., a variable name of x can be identified by typing `x`.)

• The Formula Definition supports the following operators: + (add), - (subtract), * (multiply), / (divide), and ^ (power).

• Note: View information about Canvas Formula Quiz Question Helper Functions.

Instructure by Canvas Formula Question How-To Guide

Categorization

In a categorization question, students place answers in the correct categories while ignoring all distractors.

• When Categorization questions are graded, students must categorize all items correctly to earn full points.

• There is not an option to assign partial credit for Categorization questions.

• You can also duplicate Categorization questions to create a new question.

Instructure by Canvas Categorization Question How-To Guide

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True or False

True or False item types allow instructors to:

• Provide students with a given statement and students select True or False.

• Duplicate True or False questions to create a new question.

Instructure by Canvas True or False How-To Guide

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Numeric

Numeric item types allow instructors to:

• Create questions with acceptable answers from students that contain numbers, text, and/or symbols.

• Instructors can only use numeric entries for accepted answers.

• Student answers in non-numeric format will not be graded automatically.

Instructure by Canvas Numeric How-To Guide

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Multiple Choice

In a multiple-choice question, students select one answer from a list of answers.

• Instructors can set specific point totals for each option in the Points field.

• By default, all answer choices are shuffled and displayed as unlocked. To lock an answer in its location, click the Lock icon.

• Feedback can be customized to display for correct answers, incorrect answers, or all answers.

Instructure by Canvas Multiple Choice How-To Guide

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Hot Spot

Hot Spot questions allow teachers to upload images and have their students identify a specific area in that image.

• Hot Spot image types include BMP, GIF, JPG/JPEG, and PNG.

• Upload images/screenshots of text to create a STAAR 2.0 Hot Text item type.

• Note: Hot Spot items are limited to only one spot within the graphic.

Instructure by Canvas Hot Spot How-To Guide