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The Level Descriptors Guide helps lecturers design learning outcomes, activities, and assessments that match the correct qualification level. In Aotearoa, the NZQCF levels describe the knowledge, skills, and independence students should demonstrate. Using the guide helps ensure your course expectations align with the level students are studying. A useful idea when applying the guide is …
This guide provides a workaround to move your existing questions from Classic Quizzes into the modern Item Banks without manual re-creation. Item Banks are the standard for reusing, sharing, and standardising your assessment content in Canvas. If your courses still rely on Classic Quizzes, you’re missing out on key benefits like: While there isn’t a …
Creating a New Quiz involves three steps: establishing the assignment settings in Canvas, launching the Quiz Builder, and finally adding your questions and content. New Quizzes is the recommended tool for assessment, offering advanced question types, greater security, and powerful Item Banks for managing your content. Follow this step-by-step guide to quickly set up your …
The Stimulus feature allows you to present a shared piece of content—such as a case study, image, or reading passage—that applies to a group of related questions. Use a Stimulus when you have multiple questions based on a single piece of information. This keeps your quiz design clean and professional, prevents content redundancy, and ensures …
This guide explains the purpose of the Canvas Quizzes tool, outlines the essential benefits of quizzing, and clarifies the key differences between the original Classic Quizzes and the modern New Quizzes. The Role of Quizzes The Quiz tool in Canvas is a versatile assignment type used to create and administer online quizzes, tests, exams, and …
Item Banks are the modernised replacement for Question Banks used in Classic Quizzes. Item Banks offer superior functionality, especially for sharing and management across courses. An Item Bank is a centralised, digital library used to store questions (or “items”) for use in any New Quiz. They combine the storage and randomisation functions that previously required …
Hot Spot questions are excellent for visual assessments, such as identifying parts of a diagram, country on a map, or features in an image. However, this question type is not accessible to users who rely on keyboard-only access or screen readers. Use this type sparingly or provide an equivalent alternative text-based question. Upload the image …
Classic Quizzes is a legacy tool. For all new assessments, you are strongly encouraged to use New Quizzes. New Quizzes offers better accessibility, security, advanced question types, and essential features like Item Banks. Create the Classic Quiz Shell Configure Settings: Scroll down to set the grading type, assignment group, shuffle answers, time limit, and restrict …
This question type is highly engaging and is perfect for assessing a student’s ability to sort, group, and classify information, such as grouping historical figures by era, identifying biological concepts by domain, or classifying different types of material. Access the Builder and Add the Question All question configuration occurs within the New Quizzes editor (the …
The Classic Quiz environment uses a specific interface that offers four distinct quiz types. Understanding the difference between a Quiz and a Survey is key: a Survey is primarily for information gathering and does not support automatic right/wrong answers. Quiz Type Purpose and Grading Key Feature Marked Quiz Used for formal assessment. Canvas automatically creates …
This article explains what the MIT Moderation Planning and Tracking Tool is and how it enables accurate data tracking and progress of moderation activities for each School. The ‘live’ MP&TT spreadsheets link to MS PowerBI, which MIT’s Business Analysts use to create visual reports. These help Academic Committees track moderation progress and compliance across all Schools and programmes. It tracks …
How to use the MIT Moderation Planning and Tracking Tool to enter accurate information. The Moderation Planning and Tracking Tool (MP&TT) is an Excel spreadsheet that helps keep your programme’s moderation activities organised for the whole year. It records when internal and external pre-moderation, post-moderation, and check marking take place, along with the results. It also keeps track of any …
This article explains how Programme Committees (PCs) table and discuss moderation, and what this means for you as academic staff. What Programme Committees Must Do Under AC4/3 Moderation Procedures, Programme Committees must: Your Programme Committee approves the MP&TT every year and signs off updates during the year. Your Role as Academic Staff You are expected to: …
This page explains how Programme Committees record and discuss moderation, including guidance on reports, agenda items, and motions. Recording Moderation in Programme Committees Moderation outcomes are recorded in two ways in your Programme Committee minutes: Hints and Tips
This article explains how to correctly store items in the Moderation folder in SharePoint. “MIT is legally obliged to store materials for seven years including moderation. This means that when an assessment is moderated, all materials related to this assessment must be stored according to the MIT File Storage Protocols (MIT FSP). Is this for me? Where is the …
