65 Canvas Quizzing and Surveys with John Parrish — 03.17.2017

The March 17, 2017 Active Teaching Lab explored the use of quizzing and surveys in Canvas.  John Parrish shared how he uses surveys to get to know his students.

Takeaways

• Consider creating an ungraded Canvas quiz at the beginning of the semester to collect information about your students — what they know, where they are from, major, what they are hoping to learn, etc.
• Analytics can show you which questions are more challenging.
• As you design your questions and time limits, remember to design multiple ways for learners to express what they know.
• To randomize quiz questions, create a “question group” in your quiz and choose how many of those questions you would like to appear randomly for the students.
• View the session’s activity sheet for additional support materials.

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Watch John’s Story:

Watch the discussion that followed: