Just want to say a THANK YOU and YOU ROCK! I started teaching an Asynchronous online FILM class at a University... and I have 100 Students! Your Canvas videos have been a life saver!
Wow 100 students!!! I hope you have a TA! Glad they are helpful. I will say that it is sooooo much easier to teach large classes online in my opinion especially when it comes to grading. Best wishes to you!
Great work, Ashlee. I've been teaching theatre full-time for 38 years so I'm very comfortable in the classroom. Now that I've moved to remote teaching it's a whole new world! Your videos are a terrific asset for me. Thanks.
@@VirtualTeachingPro I am SO grateful for your channel!! I've been using Sakai LMS, which I love, but this is great info for those of us migrating to Canvas!!🎉🎉💪💪
wonderful! I'm so glad it helped you. Thanks for the feedback. I'm adding new videos every week so let me know if there is a specific topic you would like to cover.
Oh my goodness thank you so much for saying that! My doggies tend to bark during recordings and classes allllll time as I'm sure we all have experience with at home working and teaching these days. I honestly am able to tune it out more these days as it feels just like a normal thing. Isn't that odd to say! Thanks for your support 😁
Great video! I just subscribed to your channel so I can learn everything that I need to be an effective virtual learning teacher. Thank you very much for your time and effort.
I enjoy your videos and it they have saved me many times. Now I would like to know how to add a hands on test to Canvas. I am a welding Instructor and we need to be able to grade some test plates but this is done in the Welding Lab where we preform bend test, also visual test on these plates. I just need to know how to create this on CANVAS and I can't seem to find anything any where on the how to. I'm sure I would have to manually add the grade but how do I create the test to be able to do this on the Grade Section of CANVAS. Thank you
I'm finding it annoying making quizzes in Canvas because you can't choose to have the same answers for every question - for example if I want it to be a survey and have the students pick from "I can do this", "I can't do this", "I need to practice this" - for every question then it's a real pain having to either paste that in (not really worth the effort) or type it again and again. There should be a way to upload your questions and answers from a file or have a "set stock answers" option.
I feel you on this! I haven't found a way around that yet but if any else has suggestions please chime in. I wish you could just duplicate questions and answers but maybe Canvas can update that as they continue to release new features in quizzes.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Yes they need to make it like on Kahoot where you can create your quiz on an Excel document and upload it to the site. Your videos are excellent by the way.
Ms. Espinoza, please add to your training the "points," Will canvas automatically grade this? Where will the grade be recorded? What if I want to give students some pts. because they were really close to the answer on a fill in the blank? Also, I have not yet found a video on how to upload a worksheet where students can write on it WITH the GRADING protocol. I have seen one worksheet upload video, but how is grading conducted since there is no one question at a time via a box for each question. The worksheet, say, has 15 questions; students write the response on the upload, BUT how is this graded? Where and how do I write my answers so that canvas can grade it? Thank you.
You miss the most important part of saving a question: mentioning to click "update question"!!!! If you create and only click save, there is no question to be found in the quiz! Such a key part! I've spend half hour to figure it out!
Well thanks for sharing that with me and everyone else. Also, thanks for watching my content. Hope it helped saved you some time trying to figure everything out on your own.
I have enjoyed and appreciate your video on creating quizzes. Thank you. Also, Ms. Espinoza, I am looking for a good lesson/video on how to create a regular assignment that requires a fill in the blank response. Do you have such tutorial?
I wish you can have a tutorial for a test where test 1 is od 20 item- more multiple choice and for test 2. Is a 20 point essay question and incorporating the rubric for the essay part. Thank you very much. I am learning so much from the 3 tutorials already taken from you
Another request please. It can be incorporated with the one requested earlier. Part 1 of the exam is 20 items multiple choice questions; shuffled from 40 questions. Then part 2 of the exam is essay of 20 points with rubrics please... Thank you so much. Your tutorials are so great and easy to understand.
The very first multiple choice answer does not have to be the correct answer. You can change which one is correct by holding down the arrow on the left.
If I wanted them to plug in answers they have in their workbooks and I make a quiz for the page I want them to fill in, how would I do that? Use the essay question response? That way they write their answers? 1. horse 2. cow and so on?
yes you can use the essay question response or fill in the blank options. If it's just one word try the fill in the blank option first and then preview it to try it out and see if that works for what you are wanting. hope this helps!
Thank you for your awesome videos! I love your idea of creating pages with the content embedded in them to navigate through the course. My sticking point is that when the students go to a quiz, the chain of progression is disrupted, and the students have to navigate back to the next page in the module. Do you have a way to automatically send the student back to the correct page in the progression after a quiz?
Great question. After the student hits submit on the quiz, you are correct, it does break that chain of progression. What I've been doing is including in the description box of the quiz a helpful reminder as to what they do after they complete the quiz. Almost like directions since they will not have the button to keep guiding them through the module. I like to say..." after you complete this quiz and click submit, don't forget to head back into this unit module to continue on with the next discussion post due on ... day." Also keep in mind that if you are consistent in the flow of each module, then they will get use to knowing that after the quiz the next thing they do is (....) and it will become a routine for them. Hope this helps a little.
Thanks Ashlee. I've been using these quizzes for a bit. However, I'm trying to learn about the other question options, i.e., multiple answers. Do you have a video for these, or can you suggest one?
9:30 is where she talks about how to construct your quiz.(add content). I suggest starting there first, then going back to the beginning of the video to watch how to publish it. (This was less confusing for me to view it this way).
excellent point and thanks for commenting with the timestamp to help direct others. I appreciate your feedback. I'm working on a video about New Quizzes so I'll be sure to to start with construction and adding content first this time around.
WOW...you are wonderful. I love your explanations, your voice, your delivery of the material. I am about to launch into creating my first quiz. Can I share the quiz with a co-worker who co-plans with me? Is that possible?
Thank you for the video Miss Espinoza, it was very informative. Question: is there a way that I can ask my students to define a term, and for me to read their answer and grade it personally? Thank you very much!
Good video from an experienced teacher! How do you change the points assigned to each question if there are 100 questions? I can change one at a time, but don't want to do it 100 times.
Good question. In my experience, Canvas auto assigns points based on the amount of points you assign to the quiz/exam to have overall. I set my exams at 100 points total (just because it's easier on my brain and the students) so if I do 50 questions it auto sets them at 2 points each. The only other option of setting specific questions at different values is to go in and do them each manually unfortunately from what I can tell.
Can you add outside content? I have an ASL class so I want to use certain 'type' called Gallaudet that has fingerspelling. How would you upload that? And is there a way to do the same quiz for multiple classes or do you have to upload it the same way three times or whatever?
Your videos are great. I need help with "weighting" my different grades and the difference between real quizzes and tests. My quizzes are 10-12 points each and are worth 10% of the final grade. My exams are whole grades (if 25% then I score it out of 25). How do or can I get canvas to recognize the difference between my exams and quizzes and calculate the grade correctly? Thank you for your help. have watched many of your videos but I am not sure I can find the info that I need.
I love your tutorials! Question for you: I'm teaching an online Music Appreciation class via Canvas and am trying to figure out how to implement a listening quiz. I would need to use anonymous recordings (no access to title or composer on the link). Have you ever used Canvas for this or do you have any ideas how this might work best? Thank you so much!
So glad they are helpful! Yes you can do this in a quiz. I like to set it up by uploading the audio into the RCE box of the question and labeling the file "song 1" or question 1 so they don't know the title or composer. Super easy! Feel free to email me if you need more help with it hello@ ashlee espinosa dot com. This video covers it a little I think but I'll add this question to my video list. ua-cam.com/video/85wqpE1fSzY/v-deo.html
Has anyone found a solution to the extension Read and Write and the use of New Quizzes in Canvas not playing nice? We are unable to use the new quizzes lockdown browser because of the conflict between the two extensions. Help would be appreciated!
Is there a way to change the default settings for quizzes? E.g., I don't want students to see the correct answers after a submission, which is a default option, and don't want to have to change it manually for each quiz, lest I forget.
yes! you can edit those settings on the backend when you create the quiz. Check out this video with some updates in Canvas ua-cam.com/video/J_RmcQkQNBo/v-deo.html
Loved the video. Thank you for the clarity. One question, if I wanted to upload a passage, where would I place it? Would it go above the first question or in the description?
I think you would want put it in the description but it depends upon what you mean by "passage." Is it part of a question or is it a description/explaining elements of exam/quiz?
Will Canvas shuffle my answers? I put in the correct answer as the top one each time and when I go to preview it, it's always the first answer. The kids will figure out pretty quickly that it's always "a" if they don't shuffle the answers. Do you know if it does this? Thank you.
Yes! glad you figured that out. I didn't showcase that you can switch the correct answer in the tutorials video but I'll be sure to include that when I make an updated video of New Quizzes in the future.
Does 'shuffle answers' also mean that the order of questions is shuffled as well? And if not, is there a way to shuffle the order of questions for the students?
Shuffle answers just shuffle answers from what I am aware of. You have to create groups to shuffle order of questions. It's a big hassle. check out this walk through I found: community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-quiz-with-a-question-group-to-randomize-quiz/ta-p/1032
Loved this video. I teach sign language and would like to upload a video of me signing and have students choose an answer. Is there a way to do this AND shuffle the order students see my videos? Hope this makes sense.
How do I post the same exam for 3 different lab sections? My exams will be on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Can I simply create an original exam, give it 3 slightly different titles, and individually set the dates and availability for Tuesday, Thursday and Friday? Thanks in advance.
Hello Ashlee, great video. I am creating a Canvas Boot Camp for my teachers in my district and would love to embed your video. Could I have permission to do that? If not, I definitely understand. Thank you for the time you took to create this video. I really appreciate it.
Hi there. I love that you're creating a Canvas Boot Camp for you teachers. That amazing and so helpful! All I ask is that the links you embed go back to my videos here on youtube when they view them. The easiest way to do this is just copy and paste the link to the video you are referring to and want them to view. Or what other people have told me they do is share the link to the Canvas Tutorial playlist I've created on my page. Totally up to you and your needs. I sure appreciate you asking and honored that you find my videos helpful and want to share them with your fellow teachers. If I can be of any other help please let me know. team@AshleeEspinosa.com
Thank you for this! Very clear! Got a question: how would you set up an exam that was part multiple choice and short answer but also part revising of a previous assignment? This other part would require that they work with a previous assignment and make some modifications to it. I know that I can have students upload this second part as a function of the "upload file" option, but what advice do you have on how to set the timing for this exam? I would want them to be limited in the time that they can answer the multiple choice and short answer parts but I want to give them ample time to answer the lengthier revision part. What advice could you offer me? Again, thanks a mill for your help!
Thank's for your feedback Dennis and I'm you found it helpful! This is a great question. You can set up groups within an exam that will allow you to make groupings for different types of categories. I like to do that so the students clearly understand that the first group is multiple choice, second group is short answer, etc so they can easily follow through the exam in groups. Setting up diff times is the tricky part here though. It only allows you to set time limit for the entire exam as a whole. You can't set different times for groupings within Canvas, at least not that I've discovered yet. What I do is make diff exams/quiz that I want to allow diff times for. For example, I would make a diff quiz for the one that you want them to do short answer for so you can allow more time. Same with the one where they revise a previous assignment. I've also discovered that it makes it clear for the students as well if they are separate exams almost like mini exams for online teaching since you don't have them in front of you to really explain or answer questions during the exam. Hope this helps at all! Happy teaching :) Let me know if you have any other questions at all.
Hello Ashlee. These videos are great! My students are taking exams on another platform and I will have to enter their grades on Canvas. How do I create a "place holder" for those grades? I dont need an actual quiz but need a place to enter the grades from the other platform. Can you help me?
Great video, Ashlee! I teach an online college course in Vancouver and want my students to complete a multiple choice quiz with 10 questions during class time while they are visible on Zoom. What would you recommended as ideal time limit to give fair time but limit cheating? Thanks a lot!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Hello! thank you very much for your tutorials! where do I find the box for "edit mode" to randomize the questions? (and not just shuffle the answer options...) Thank you!
Hi Ashlee. If I have a word file of say 50 Multiple choice questions already created, is there a method by which I could batch upload the questions into an exam or must they be entered one question at a time? It would obviously save me a lot of time if the former option is available.
I feel you on this one! Currently there is not a way to this in Canvas unfortunately. I have heard that some people have use Respondus for this type of situation but generally their response it ..it doesn't format properly in the end and creates even more work than just entering it one by one. I copy and paste my questions from a word doc and that makes it a little faster.
Hi Ashlee, thanks for the great video, it was very helpful! Do you know if there is some way to edit or to control the auto numbering of the questions? I'm creating Essay Questions, and I have many questions that are 1.a, 2.a.i, 2.a.i.1, and so on. I just wish that the student could see it like this to follow along.
Hi Jaime! Great questions. At this time (from what I'm aware of), there is not an option to retake the quiz with just the wrong questions. You can make it where then can see the wrong and right answers at the end of the quiz so they know which ones they got right/wrong but they will then have to take the entire quiz again. Hope this helps.
Hi, I'm just asking about this "Not viewing the quiz-taking page can occur from being inactive within Canvas for more than 30 seconds" What does it mean rlly ?? Like you havent move a thing even your mouse for 30 secs while your in the canvas quiz page, which means that you stopped viewing the canvas-quiz??
I think you are referring to when you are taking a quiz and it has Lockdown set on which means it is monitoring your activity to keep students from cheating or walking away from the screen. If you are a student then reach out to your teacher about this. If you are a teacher then you probably are using Respondus or another type of Lockdown extension/app within Canvas.
I've heard from other people that Respondus is okay but the formatting is a little strange once it's imported. I've had any experience with doing this with either of these though yet. Let me know if you do try it and how it goes though!
I'm not sure how to help in this situation since I'm not aware of the course or the platform you took the course on but I would suggest contacting the teacher, professor or person that offered the course and ask them.
Hi Ashlee, thank you for your video. Is there a way to grade students' Canvas quizzes yourself? I use a 4-point grading scale and am concerned about Canvas grading student quizzes on the traditional scale. Thanks in advance.
You can only grade it yourself if you choose one of the options that require self grading like the essay questions. Otherwise from what I've experienced it's all auto graded.
Is there a way to provide "none of the above" options for multiple choice questions so that the other answers are shuffled but none of the above remains the last option?
Thats interesting. Usually it does show the entire quiz in preview so you can practice test it as if you were a student. Double check your settings of the quiz. Maybe you've set it at only show so many questions per page and then you need to click the next button at the bottom right corner to see the rest? You can set it at see all questions and maybe that helps.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank you Ashlee, but I don't know where to "set many questions per page" but thank you for your support, and all this great videos.
Ashlee, in case you didn't know, there is a new tool called New Quizzes, which will replace the old Quizzes tool in summer 2021. This has more features like hotspot, categorization, matching, and ordering. It also has new features for moderation and accommodation, as well as hidden features for rubrics and opening in full screen. This will be very useful for UCI students starting from the Spring 2021 semester. Students will only need to submit an accommodation letter ONCE for each class, NOT for every test, since testing accommodations apply to ALL future tests for that student.
I am trying to create a test for middle school kids on ruler reading. It is really simple, just labeling the part of an inch accurately to the sixteenths. Because it is labeling, I don't want to give them numeric numbers for the question, I want to use letters. While under the question tab I can edit "Question" to "A", but when I save and preview the test it says "Question 1". Is there a way to change that so I have letters in place of "Question 1"? Thanks for any help you can provide.
@@williampreuss8126 This is a tricky one. Are you using the New Quiz in Canvas or the Classic Quiz version? They each offer different options but the New Quiz version might offer a few elements that would help in this situation.
@@VirtualTeachingPro That is a fantastic question and I have no idea. We just started with Canvas a week ago, and we have had students this week. A true case of trial by fire I guess. Where could one find that information?
Hi there! That's just what has worked for me in my classes but I'm sure it will be different for every teacher depending on their class and student needs. I teach at the college level and after trying a few different time frames for quizzes, this is the one that worked best so it wasn't too easy and also it wasn't too challenging. I tried 1 minute per question at first and almost everyone in the class made a 100%. I suggest just trying out different time frames to see what works best for you. If that seems like to little of time then maybe try 1 minute per question. Hope this helps!
not useful at all! you did not cover importing questions so no your video does not cover everything about quizzes. maybe next time name your video more properly to the limited content that you cover over a VERY LONG time
Hi there Soodeh. First off, I hope you’re doing well. I know that transition to online teaching can be frustrating and overwhelming at times plus, as educators, we are all under a lot of pressure to not just teach but also be tech wizards. If you take a look at the date of this video it’s a couple of years old so not all functions were used or available when I posted it. Another reason why I kept it simple and slow was because I created this video for educators that were jumping into Canvas during the very beginning of the pandemic. They needed the basics and needed it taught in a simple effective way with a lot of kindness. My content was here on UA-cam is free. That way educators like yourself can get the info they need without pay barriers. It takes me a lot of time, energy and effort to create videos and I do it because I care about helping fellow educators. So again, I hope you’re doing well and finding the info you need here on UA-cam that has been provided to you free of charge by fellow educators and creators like myself. Happy teaching.
Just want to say a THANK YOU and YOU ROCK!
I started teaching an Asynchronous online FILM class at a University... and I have 100 Students! Your Canvas videos have been a life saver!
Wow 100 students!!! I hope you have a TA! Glad they are helpful. I will say that it is sooooo much easier to teach large classes online in my opinion especially when it comes to grading. Best wishes to you!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thanks!!! I do have a TA! Navigating how to best utilize them on the journey. (I'll see if you have a video on that 😆)
Great work, Ashlee. I've been teaching theatre full-time for 38 years so I'm very comfortable in the classroom. Now that I've moved to remote teaching it's a whole new world! Your videos are a terrific asset for me. Thanks.
That is awesome! Congrats on such a long successful career. I know it's different but give yourself time to transition. Glad I can help along the way!
@@VirtualTeachingPro I am SO grateful for your channel!! I've been using Sakai LMS, which I love, but this is great info for those of us migrating to Canvas!!🎉🎉💪💪
Ashlee, great work. Thank you for posting tutorials on Canvas, It has been very helpful. I learned a lot from your lectures. Once again thanks much!
I found your video very helpful. To the point and great for CANVAS users that are now switching to online classes.
wonderful! I'm so glad it helped you. Thanks for the feedback. I'm adding new videos every week so let me know if there is a specific topic you would like to cover.
OMG you have literally saved me so much anxiety w/ teaching online this year. THANK YOU
I"m so glad I could be of help!
You are fantastic! I have been learning so much through your videos. I am sure teachers everywhere appreciate you. Thank you! Thank you! James
You are so welcome!
You literally saved me and I grateful for you going step by step.
I'm so happy I could help you Ruby. You got this. One step at a time.
OK, now I will test my gained knowledge from your wonderful and clear video.
Thank you SO much for your help. You explain every thing very clearly. God Bless you Ashlee.
Thank you for your kind words. My pleasure!
Thank you very much! Your presentation was amazing!!! I appreciate you.
You are so welcome!
Does anybody else hear the doggie? Ashlee handled it very well under pressure. Great job I learned alot.
Oh my goodness thank you so much for saying that! My doggies tend to bark during recordings and classes allllll time as I'm sure we all have experience with at home working and teaching these days. I honestly am able to tune it out more these days as it feels just like a normal thing. Isn't that odd to say! Thanks for your support 😁
Thank you, this was very helpful. Your dog sounds like a fan, too! True professional video. Merci.
Glad it was helpful! Lily and Lola our dogs are super fans and great helpers :)
I truly appreciate you!!
Glad to help!
Great video! I just subscribed to your channel so I can learn everything that I need to be an effective virtual learning teacher. Thank you very much for your time and effort.
Welcome aboard! So glad these videos are helpful.
This was very helpful, thanks.
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Thank you very much!
Welcome
I enjoy your videos and it they have saved me many times. Now I would like to know how to add a hands on test to Canvas. I am a welding Instructor and we need to be able to grade some test plates but this is done in the Welding Lab where we preform bend test, also visual test on these plates. I just need to know how to create this on CANVAS and I can't seem to find anything any where on the how to. I'm sure I would have to manually add the grade but how do I create the test to be able to do this on the Grade Section of CANVAS. Thank you
Very helpful! Thanks so much!
You're welcome!
I'm finding it annoying making quizzes in Canvas because you can't choose to have the same answers for every question - for example if I want it to be a survey and have the students pick from "I can do this", "I can't do this", "I need to practice this" - for every question then it's a real pain having to either paste that in (not really worth the effort) or type it again and again. There should be a way to upload your questions and answers from a file or have a "set stock answers" option.
I feel you on this! I haven't found a way around that yet but if any else has suggestions please chime in. I wish you could just duplicate questions and answers but maybe Canvas can update that as they continue to release new features in quizzes.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Yes they need to make it like on Kahoot where you can create your quiz on an Excel document and upload it to the site. Your videos are excellent by the way.
Ms. Espinoza, please add to your training the "points," Will canvas automatically grade this? Where will the grade be recorded? What if I want to give students some pts. because they were really close to the answer on a fill in the blank? Also, I have not yet found a video on how to upload a worksheet where students can write on it WITH the GRADING protocol. I have seen one worksheet upload video, but how is grading conducted since there is no one question at a time via a box for each question. The worksheet, say, has 15 questions; students write the response on the upload, BUT how is this graded? Where and how do I write my answers so that canvas can grade it? Thank you.
Thanks so much for this question and suggestion. I'll add it into my upcoming video list!
You miss the most important part of saving a question: mentioning to click "update question"!!!! If you create and only click save, there is no question to be found in the quiz! Such a key part! I've spend half hour to figure it out!
Well thanks for sharing that with me and everyone else. Also, thanks for watching my content. Hope it helped saved you some time trying to figure everything out on your own.
I have enjoyed and appreciate your video on creating quizzes. Thank you. Also, Ms. Espinoza, I am looking for a good lesson/video on how to create a regular assignment that requires a fill in the blank response. Do you have such tutorial?
I don't have a video on that yet but I'll add it to my list!
Learn alot. Thanks
You bet!
hi thank you for your very useful videos, i just want to ask if you have some video for creating question bank in canvas? thank you again :D
Not yet! I'll add to my list though. I've got a video coming out next week thought about quiz options that might help though.
Thank you for such a great video!
Welcome!
I wish you can have a tutorial for a test where test 1 is od 20 item- more multiple choice and for test 2. Is a 20 point essay question and incorporating the rubric for the essay part. Thank you very much. I am learning so much from the 3 tutorials already taken from you
Great suggestion! I"ll see if I can work on getting a tutorial for that.
So thankful you answered my comment. Have a great day ahead
Another request please. It can be incorporated with the one requested earlier. Part 1 of the exam is 20 items multiple choice questions; shuffled from 40 questions. Then part 2 of the exam is essay of 20 points with rubrics please... Thank you so much. Your tutorials are so great and easy to understand.
The very first multiple choice answer does not have to be the correct answer. You can change which one is correct by holding down the arrow on the left.
Oh thank you so much for letting me know! I had not discovered that yet. I feel like I learn something new every day with online teaching.
If I wanted them to plug in answers they have in their workbooks and I make a quiz for the page I want them to fill in, how would I do that? Use the essay question response? That way they write their answers? 1. horse
2. cow
and so on?
yes you can use the essay question response or fill in the blank options. If it's just one word try the fill in the blank option first and then preview it to try it out and see if that works for what you are wanting. hope this helps!
Thank you for your awesome videos! I love your idea of creating pages with the content embedded in them to navigate through the course. My sticking point is that when the students go to a quiz, the chain of progression is disrupted, and the students have to navigate back to the next page in the module. Do you have a way to automatically send the student back to the correct page in the progression after a quiz?
Great question. After the student hits submit on the quiz, you are correct, it does break that chain of progression. What I've been doing is including in the description box of the quiz a helpful reminder as to what they do after they complete the quiz. Almost like directions since they will not have the button to keep guiding them through the module. I like to say..." after you complete this quiz and click submit, don't forget to head back into this unit module to continue on with the next discussion post due on ... day." Also keep in mind that if you are consistent in the flow of each module, then they will get use to knowing that after the quiz the next thing they do is (....) and it will become a routine for them. Hope this helps a little.
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Thanks Ashlee. I've been using these quizzes for a bit. However, I'm trying to learn about the other question options, i.e., multiple answers. Do you have a video for these, or can you suggest one?
check out this video where I dive into quizzes in depth: ua-cam.com/video/LFNzdE8CWhk/v-deo.html
9:30 is where she talks about how to construct your quiz.(add content). I suggest starting there first, then going back to the beginning of the video to watch how to publish it. (This was less confusing for me to view it this way).
excellent point and thanks for commenting with the timestamp to help direct others. I appreciate your feedback. I'm working on a video about New Quizzes so I'll be sure to to start with construction and adding content first this time around.
WOW...you are wonderful. I love your explanations, your voice, your delivery of the material. I am about to launch into creating my first quiz. Can I share the quiz with a co-worker who co-plans with me? Is that possible?
Yes, you can share using blueprint if you're institution has that feature. and thanks so much for the kind words!
Will have to see. We are using the free version. Thank you for such a quiz response.
Thank you for the video Miss Espinoza, it was very informative. Question: is there a way that I can ask my students to define a term, and for me to read their answer and grade it personally? Thank you very much!
Yes, you can use the essay question box for this.
Thank you 😊 this was so helpful
You're so welcome!
Good video from an experienced teacher! How do you change the points assigned to each question if there are 100 questions? I can change one at a time, but don't want to do it 100 times.
Good question. In my experience, Canvas auto assigns points based on the amount of points you assign to the quiz/exam to have overall. I set my exams at 100 points total (just because it's easier on my brain and the students) so if I do 50 questions it auto sets them at 2 points each. The only other option of setting specific questions at different values is to go in and do them each manually unfortunately from what I can tell.
ashlee, can make quizzes and then combine the quiz questions together for an exam?
Can you add outside content? I have an ASL class so I want to use certain 'type' called Gallaudet that has fingerspelling. How would you upload that? And is there a way to do the same quiz for multiple classes or do you have to upload it the same way three times or whatever?
I’m not sure about this. Try canvas support or the canvas help area on their website to see if anyone might have insight on this.
Your videos are great. I need help with "weighting" my different grades and the difference between real quizzes and tests. My quizzes are 10-12 points each and are worth 10% of the final grade. My exams are whole grades (if 25% then I score it out of 25). How do or can I get canvas to recognize the difference between my exams and quizzes and calculate the grade correctly? Thank you for your help. have watched many of your videos but I am not sure I can find the info that I need.
check out this video for weighting grades tutorial ua-cam.com/video/BmRZM9rltdA/v-deo.html
I love your tutorials! Question for you: I'm teaching an online Music Appreciation class via Canvas and am trying to figure out how to implement a listening quiz. I would need to use anonymous recordings (no access to title or composer on the link). Have you ever used Canvas for this or do you have any ideas how this might work best? Thank you so much!
So glad they are helpful! Yes you can do this in a quiz. I like to set it up by uploading the audio into the RCE box of the question and labeling the file "song 1" or question 1 so they don't know the title or composer. Super easy! Feel free to email me if you need more help with it hello@ ashlee espinosa dot com. This video covers it a little I think but I'll add this question to my video list. ua-cam.com/video/85wqpE1fSzY/v-deo.html
Has anyone found a solution to the extension Read and Write and the use of New Quizzes in Canvas not playing nice? We are unable to use the new quizzes lockdown browser because of the conflict between the two extensions. Help would be appreciated!
Is there a way to change the default settings for quizzes? E.g., I don't want students to see the correct answers after a submission, which is a default option, and don't want to have to change it manually for each quiz, lest I forget.
yes! you can edit those settings on the backend when you create the quiz. Check out this video with some updates in Canvas ua-cam.com/video/J_RmcQkQNBo/v-deo.html
Loved the video. Thank you for the clarity. One question, if I wanted to upload a passage, where would I place it? Would it go above the first question or in the description?
I think you would want put it in the description but it depends upon what you mean by "passage." Is it part of a question or is it a description/explaining elements of exam/quiz?
Will Canvas shuffle my answers? I put in the correct answer as the top one each time and when I go to preview it, it's always the first answer. The kids will figure out pretty quickly that it's always "a" if they don't shuffle the answers. Do you know if it does this? Thank you.
I actually just figured out I can switch the one that is the correct answer, so nevermind :) Thanks for all the videos! They are great.
Yes! glad you figured that out. I didn't showcase that you can switch the correct answer in the tutorials video but I'll be sure to include that when I make an updated video of New Quizzes in the future.
Does 'shuffle answers' also mean that the order of questions is shuffled as well? And if not, is there a way to shuffle the order of questions for the students?
Shuffle answers just shuffle answers from what I am aware of. You have to create groups to shuffle order of questions. It's a big hassle. check out this walk through I found: community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-quiz-with-a-question-group-to-randomize-quiz/ta-p/1032
Loved this video. I teach sign language and would like to upload a video of me signing and have students choose an answer. Is there a way to do this AND shuffle the order students see my videos? Hope this makes sense.
Very informative!
Thanks very much for your feedback! Let me know if you have any questions or need specific tutorials and I'll add it to my list. Happy teaching!
How do I post the same exam for 3 different lab sections? My exams will be on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Can I simply create an original exam, give it 3 slightly different titles, and individually set the dates and availability for Tuesday, Thursday and Friday? Thanks in advance.
yes! check out this video ua-cam.com/video/D4_K5tJDmzg/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for all the helpful tips. I still need a bit of help using the matching option. Any help would go a long way.
check out this video about 10:20 in ua-cam.com/video/LFNzdE8CWhk/v-deo.html
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thanks again Ashlee. Have a blessed day.
Hello Ashlee, great video. I am creating a Canvas Boot Camp for my teachers in my district and would love to embed your video. Could I have permission to do that? If not, I definitely understand. Thank you for the time you took to create this video. I really appreciate it.
Hi there. I love that you're creating a Canvas Boot Camp for you teachers. That amazing and so helpful! All I ask is that the links you embed go back to my videos here on youtube when they view them. The easiest way to do this is just copy and paste the link to the video you are referring to and want them to view. Or what other people have told me they do is share the link to the Canvas Tutorial playlist I've created on my page. Totally up to you and your needs. I sure appreciate you asking and honored that you find my videos helpful and want to share them with your fellow teachers. If I can be of any other help please let me know. team@AshleeEspinosa.com
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank you so much. I shall do that.
Thank you for this! Very clear! Got a question: how would you set up an exam that was part multiple choice and short answer but also part revising of a previous assignment? This other part would require that they work with a previous assignment and make some modifications to it. I know that I can have students upload this second part as a function of the "upload file" option, but what advice do you have on how to set the timing for this exam? I would want them to be limited in the time that they can answer the multiple choice and short answer parts but I want to give them ample time to answer the lengthier revision part. What advice could you offer me? Again, thanks a mill for your help!
Thank's for your feedback Dennis and I'm you found it helpful! This is a great question. You can set up groups within an exam that will allow you to make groupings for different types of categories. I like to do that so the students clearly understand that the first group is multiple choice, second group is short answer, etc so they can easily follow through the exam in groups. Setting up diff times is the tricky part here though. It only allows you to set time limit for the entire exam as a whole. You can't set different times for groupings within Canvas, at least not that I've discovered yet. What I do is make diff exams/quiz that I want to allow diff times for. For example, I would make a diff quiz for the one that you want them to do short answer for so you can allow more time. Same with the one where they revise a previous assignment. I've also discovered that it makes it clear for the students as well if they are separate exams almost like mini exams for online teaching since you don't have them in front of you to really explain or answer questions during the exam. Hope this helps at all! Happy teaching :) Let me know if you have any other questions at all.
Thank you!!
You're welcome! Let me know if you need any specific videos and I'd be happy to add them to my list. Happy teaching!
Hello Ashlee. These videos are great! My students are taking exams on another platform and I will have to enter their grades on Canvas. How do I create a "place holder" for those grades? I dont need an actual quiz but need a place to enter the grades from the other platform. Can you help me?
Great video, Ashlee! I teach an online college course in Vancouver and want my students to complete a multiple choice quiz with 10 questions during class time while they are visible on Zoom. What would you recommended as ideal time limit to give fair time but limit cheating? Thanks a lot!
Forgive me if you have already answered this...can you randomize the questions after you are finished writing a Test?
sure just make sure you have the box checked under edit mode to set as randomized.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Hello! thank you very much for your tutorials! where do I find the box for "edit mode" to randomize the questions? (and not just shuffle the answer options...) Thank you!
Hi Ashlee. If I have a word file of say 50 Multiple choice questions already created, is there a method by which I could batch upload the questions into an exam or must they be entered one question at a time? It would obviously save me a lot of time if the former option is available.
I feel you on this one! Currently there is not a way to this in Canvas unfortunately. I have heard that some people have use Respondus for this type of situation but generally their response it ..it doesn't format properly in the end and creates even more work than just entering it one by one. I copy and paste my questions from a word doc and that makes it a little faster.
Hi Ashlee, thanks for the great video, it was very helpful! Do you know if there is some way to edit or to control the auto numbering of the questions? I'm creating Essay Questions, and I have many questions that are 1.a, 2.a.i, 2.a.i.1, and so on.
I just wish that the student could see it like this to follow along.
Not that I know of but canvas is always updating the new quiz option so hopefully that changes soon. How did your classes go this past year?
Very helpfull video
Glad to hear that!
Thanks Ashlee! Got a question:
Is it possible for my students to re-take the quiz and only do the wrong questions?
Hi Jaime! Great questions. At this time (from what I'm aware of), there is not an option to retake the quiz with just the wrong questions. You can make it where then can see the wrong and right answers at the end of the quiz so they know which ones they got right/wrong but they will then have to take the entire quiz again. Hope this helps.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Genial muchisimas gracias! I´m becoming a Canvas monster thanks to you x
Yes! I'm sure your students love that too!
Hi, I'm just asking about this "Not viewing the quiz-taking page can occur from being inactive within Canvas for more than 30 seconds"
What does it mean rlly ??
Like you havent move a thing even your mouse for 30 secs while your in the canvas quiz page, which means that you stopped viewing the canvas-quiz??
I think you are referring to when you are taking a quiz and it has Lockdown set on which means it is monitoring your activity to keep students from cheating or walking away from the screen. If you are a student then reach out to your teacher about this. If you are a teacher then you probably are using Respondus or another type of Lockdown extension/app within Canvas.
How to upload questions banks
Have you had any luck importing pools of questions from Respondus or TestGen?
I've heard from other people that Respondus is okay but the formatting is a little strange once it's imported. I've had any experience with doing this with either of these though yet. Let me know if you do try it and how it goes though!
I just completed a course ( English for media literacy). But I can't find certificate . Could you help me?
I'm not sure how to help in this situation since I'm not aware of the course or the platform you took the course on but I would suggest contacting the teacher, professor or person that offered the course and ask them.
will this automatically be in the grade book?
This was great! How do you make the quiz points worth more?
you can go into the quiz when editing each question at adjust the points per question
@@VirtualTeachingPro You are an ANGEL!
great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Ashlee, thank you for your video. Is there a way to grade students' Canvas quizzes yourself? I use a 4-point grading scale and am concerned about Canvas grading student quizzes on the traditional scale. Thanks in advance.
You can only grade it yourself if you choose one of the options that require self grading like the essay questions. Otherwise from what I've experienced it's all auto graded.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Okay, thanks!
Is there a way to provide "none of the above" options for multiple choice questions so that the other answers are shuffled but none of the above remains the last option?
not with my experience. this is a great idea though!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thanks!
how do I access canvas? is it only for some schools? thank you
You can try a free version on the website here and learn more about who it's designed for www.instructure.com/canvas/
Hello Ashlee, I am teaching this semester. When I try to create my quiz only I can see 5 questions. My preview does not show the rest.
Thats interesting. Usually it does show the entire quiz in preview so you can practice test it as if you were a student. Double check your settings of the quiz. Maybe you've set it at only show so many questions per page and then you need to click the next button at the bottom right corner to see the rest? You can set it at see all questions and maybe that helps.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank you Ashlee, but I don't know where to "set many questions per page" but thank you for your support, and all this great videos.
So, how do you see the quiz once you're done editing?
go to preview button at the bottom
How's it going? Let me know if you have any questions about creating exams or quizzes in the comments below! You go this educators!
Ashlee, in case you didn't know, there is a new tool called New Quizzes, which will replace the old Quizzes tool in summer 2021.
This has more features like hotspot, categorization, matching, and ordering. It also has new features for moderation and accommodation, as well as hidden features for rubrics and opening in full screen.
This will be very useful for UCI students starting from the Spring 2021 semester. Students will only need to submit an accommodation letter ONCE for each class, NOT for every test, since testing accommodations apply to ALL future tests for that student.
Kelvin Dean this is wonderful! Thanks for letting me know! Very helpful for both students and faculty.
I am trying to create a test for middle school kids on ruler reading. It is really simple, just labeling the part of an inch accurately to the sixteenths. Because it is labeling, I don't want to give them numeric numbers for the question, I want to use letters. While under the question tab I can edit "Question" to "A", but when I save and preview the test it says "Question 1". Is there a way to change that so I have letters in place of "Question 1"? Thanks for any help you can provide.
@@williampreuss8126 This is a tricky one. Are you using the New Quiz in Canvas or the Classic Quiz version? They each offer different options but the New Quiz version might offer a few elements that would help in this situation.
@@VirtualTeachingPro That is a fantastic question and I have no idea. We just started with Canvas a week ago, and we have had students this week. A true case of trial by fire I guess. Where could one find that information?
She kinda looks like Phoebe from friends
I love Phoebe! Friends was totally my jam too.
You would give your students 30 minutes for 50 true/false questions?!? That’s just torture
Hi there! That's just what has worked for me in my classes but I'm sure it will be different for every teacher depending on their class and student needs. I teach at the college level and after trying a few different time frames for quizzes, this is the one that worked best so it wasn't too easy and also it wasn't too challenging. I tried 1 minute per question at first and almost everyone in the class made a 100%. I suggest just trying out different time frames to see what works best for you. If that seems like to little of time then maybe try 1 minute per question. Hope this helps!
can teachers see if you access canvas on a different device 😂
Not that I"m aware of. They can just see the amount of time you spend on each page along with the date and time.
This video could've been 80% shorter.
Cool thanks for the feedback and for watching. Hope you got some value in the 20% that was worthwhile for you.
not useful at all! you did not cover importing questions so no your video does not cover everything about quizzes. maybe next time name your video more properly to the limited content that you cover over a VERY LONG time
Hi there Soodeh. First off, I hope you’re doing well. I know that transition to online teaching can be frustrating and overwhelming at times plus, as educators, we are all under a lot of pressure to not just teach but also be tech wizards.
If you take a look at the date of this video it’s a couple of years old so not all functions were used or available when I posted it. Another reason why I kept it simple and slow was because I created this video for educators that were jumping into Canvas during the very beginning of the pandemic. They needed the basics and needed it taught in a simple effective way with a lot of kindness.
My content was here on UA-cam is free. That way educators like yourself can get the info they need without pay barriers. It takes me a lot of time, energy and effort to create videos and I do it because I care about helping fellow educators.
So again, I hope you’re doing well and finding the info you need here on UA-cam that has been provided to you free of charge by fellow educators and creators like myself. Happy teaching.