Testing of factual knowledge, such as basic terminology and simple formulas. Canvas Quiz is a lot more than you think.
Basic factual knowledge is often examined with a hall exam. Factual knowledge is characterized by the fact that there are correct answers and incorrect ones, not so much in between. An alternative with many advantages is therefore to use as far as possible Canvas ´Quiz´, e.g. with multiple-choice questions.
Cheating in Canvas Quiz is counteracted using several simultaneous techniques such as random questions from the question bank, random order of answer alternatives, limited exam time, restriction so that you can not go back to the previous question, m.m.
The examination questions can be constructed in several more ways than as questions with a few fixed multiple-choice alternatives. It is possible e.g. to mix multiple-choice questions with free-text questions, questions can have input values randomly generated the moment the individual student clicks on it.
The bad news is that you have to construct the questions and test that the Quiz itself works. The good thing is that you can then reuse the exam several times (Also for campus courses!) And that the assessment work is largely eliminated. The work you put in before the exam is offset by the fact that the work is largely finished at the moment when the students have completed the exam. In addition, Canvas Quiz provides many opportunities to work with question banks so that the same exam can be reused without individual students being asked the same questions. It increases the equivalence in assessment between students at the same examination and between different course occasions.
- Att använda Canvas (Using Canvas)
UPE has good teacher manuals for how to use Quiz tools in Canvas. (See Getting Started with Quizzes in the Table of Contents!).