Attention CSUEB Faculty! The Online Campus team recommends testing all your unpublished Exams and short quizzes using the Preview feature in New Quizzes at the beginning of each semester to catch and correct any errors in questions that may be present.
Doing so will save you much time and effort and mitigate the need for re-grading quiz questions throughout each semester.
Why keep quizzes unpublished while checking for errors? Once faculty publish a New quiz and make it available for your students, when a student attempts your quiz, you will no longer be able to make global changes to quiz questions by editing the quiz itself, and will have to edit a copy of a question contained in the quiz that only students who have not yet attempted will experience when they begin.
To keep the student experience consistent, verify correctness of quiz content and responses while in an unpublished and unavailable state.
This article is for Faculty who need to grade and/or regrade questions in Canvas' New Quizzes. Canvas recommends waiting until all students submit a New Quiz to re-grade a question(s). Note that all short answer and essay type questions will require manual grading of each student's response. Choose a section below from the article overview to learn how to regrade the specific question type you are looking for.
Article Overview
1. Accessing SpeedGrader
1.1. Select Grades in Course Navigation
The Grades tab can be found in the Course Navigation to the left in Canvas.
1.2. Find Your New Quiz to Grade
Type in the name of your New Quiz in the Search Assignment box then select enter. Notice the (test student) Kacy Buckner is the only one who has submitted this quiz.
1.3. Select the Three-dot Kebab, then SpeedGrader
2. Grading Short -Answer / Essay Questions
The view in the screenshot below is in SpeedGrader. New Quizzes that have short answer and/or essay type questions will show a blue box at the top of a student's submission with links to the questions for faculty to review and grade.
2.1. Select a Question for Review from the Blue Information Box
Note the student's name in upper right, the dropdown inverted triangle, farther right, that when clicked displays an orange dot to the left of students who have submissions.
(1) Review short answer/essay question responses. (2) Select the callout boxes in the bottom left corner if you would like to leave comments.
(1) Provide additional comments if desired. (2) Select Done to save your comment.
Enter points in the point box. By default, the box will be marked blue denoting a Graded status after points are entered.
Note the comment callouts at bottom left are now dark after leaving a comment. Students will see question comments once faculty have released grading information to students. To learn more about how to restrict students' view of results and comments you made in New Quizzes read Configure Your Exam Settings . To learn how to display New Quiz results and your question comments read Enable more Settings in your New Quiz to allow students to view question feedback.
The next two steps illustrate quicker ways to grade by selecting a check for correct, or an (x) for incorrect. Be mindful that awarding partial credit for essay or short answer questions requires faculty to manually enter partial credit into the point box.
Denote a student's response as correct by selecting the checkmark,
Click the green checkmark again to revert to a blue graded status.
or incorrect by selecting the (x). Marking a question with an (x) will result in 0 points.
Click the red (x) again to revert to a blue graded status
After grading all short answer and essay questions manually, scroll to the bottom. Select Update at the bottom of the page to save your work.
Selecting Update will push the new score to the Grade out of box.
3. Regrading a Multiple Fill in the Blank Question
3.1. Access Grades Via Course Navigation and Search for your Quiz
Select the three dor kebab on the right of the quiz's name to open SpeedGrader.
3.2. Select the Regrade Button for the Multiple Fill in the Blank Question
Notice Canvas marks the third blank wrong because the student entered the extra word, "a," before "more perfect." Canvas allows faculty to enter additional correct answers for a multiple fill in the blank type question in New Quizzes.
3.3. Review the Regrade Options for the Question Type
Canvas recommends waiting until all students submit the quiz before regrading questions.
3.4. Scroll Down to View the Editable Blanks of the Question
For this example, I will select the + Answer link for the (3) more perfect answer blank at the bottom and enter "a more perfect" as an acceptable correct answer.
3.5. Enter Additional Correct Answer(s), then the Regrade Button.
3.6. Choose your Regrading Option, then Select Regrade
Now that I have specified that "a more perfect" is an acceptable answer now, Canvas should award points to all students who were previously marked wrong. Keeping the first option selected should award previously marked wrong answers with a point now.
Note that after selecting Regrade, Canvas briefly displays a message that says to check back later. If you see this in the upper middle area of the screen, Canvas is automating your regrade settings to all affected students.
3.7. Review Student Submissions in Speedgrader to Assess Regrade Status
Select the inverted arrow to the right of the student's name in the upper right corner. Choose a different student's submission to check regrade status. In this example Kacy's submission is currently on display. Selecting Ronny's will display their submission.
3.8. View that the Regrade was Successful for Subsequent Affected Students
Orange text displays showing you the question has been regraded and the once incorrect "a more perfect" is now correct.
4. Regrading a Multiple Choice Question
Inside Speedgrader, scroll to a multiple choice question that requires regrading in your New Quiz.
4.1. Select the Regrade Button
In the example below, the correct answer is actually supposed to be marked wrong. When automatic peer reviews are set for an assignment, Canvas displays the work of another student who submitted on time in a student's To Do list on the home page.
4.2. Review your Regrading Options
4.3. Scroll Down and Make your Regrade Choice, then Select Regrade
For this example, "by accessing the peer review from the to do list on the home page" is the correct answer. Select the correct answer, then select Regrade.
4.4. Review Regrade Options
Select the radio button for the regrade option that suits your needs, then select Regrade.
Note the Canvas Regrade scheduled successfully message appears at the top of the screen.
4.5. Review Student Submissions in Speedgrader to Assess Regrade Status
Select the inverted arrow to the right of the student's name in the upper right corner. Choose a different student's submission to check regrade status. In this example Sidney's submission is currently on display. Selecting Priscilla's will display their submission.
Orange text displays the question has been regraded and has marked this question wrong for this student.
5. Regrading a True/False Question
Inside Speedgrader, scroll to a true /false question that requires regrading in your New Quiz. Select the Regrade button.
Note this is the correct answer for the question shown in the screenshot below: False - when selecting your Account link from the black global navigation bar, all Canvas users are able to configure their notifications across their entire accounts, or specifically per each class.
5.1. Review your Grading Options
5.2. Scroll Down. Change to the Correct Answer, then Select Regrade
5.3. Review and Select Regrade Option
Select the radio button for the regrade option that suits your needs, then select Regrade
Note the Canvas Regrade scheduled successfully message appears at the top of the screen.
5.4. Review Student Submissions in Speedgrader to Assess Regrade Status
Select the inverted arrow to the right of the student's name in the upper right corner. Choose a different student's submission to check regrade status. In this example Kacy's submission is currently on display. Selecting Ronny's will display their submission.
Orange text displays above the question and Canvas has marked this question wrong.
6. Regrading a Multiple Answer Question
Inside Speedgrader, scroll to a multiple answer question that requires regrading in your New Quiz. Select the Regrade button.
In the example below, a distractor was accidentally marked as a correct answer.
6.1. Review your Grading Options
6.2. Scroll Down. De-select the Wrong Answer, then Select Regrade.
6.3. Review and Select Regrade Option
Select the radio button for the regrade option that suits your needs, then select Regrade.
Note the Canvas Regrade scheduled successfully message appears at the top of the screen.
6.4. Review Student Submissions in Speedgrader to Assess Regrade Status
Select the inverted arrow to the right of the student's name in the upper right corner. Choose a different student's submission to check regrade status. In this example Kacy's submission is currently on display. Selecting Ronny's will display their submission.
Orange text displays the question has been regraded and has marked this question wrong for this student who chose the incorrect distractor.
If you plan to copy the quiz to another course, be sure to make the necessary corrections by editing the quiz itself before copying over to another course.
Select How do I regrade a quiz question in New Quizzes? to read Canvas' help guide. Select Grading Classic Quizzes in Canvas to learn how to grade and re-grade different quiz question types in Canvas' Classic Quizzes.
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