Creating an Extra Credit Quiz

This article was created by Kona Jones, Director of Online Learning and Faculty Academy Coordinator at Richland Community College in Decatur, IL.

It's not perfect, but here's the  easiest thing I've found to create an autograded "extra credit" quiz.  **Note: There was a much more elegant solution, but it no longer works  and this is the easiest work around that I've found.**

  1. Create a regular graded quiz and apply the settings as desired - Quiz Settings to Maximize Security. Make  sure to add a note in the directions that the quiz will grade like a  normal quiz, but after the due date it will be adjusted so it becomes  extra credit.
  2. After the due date for the extra credit quiz  create an extra credit assignment worth zero points and labeled it as  the Extra Credit points. Make sure in the directions to add a link to  the actual extra credit quiz and explain that these are the points  earned from the quiz.
  3. In the gradebook enter in the number of  points people got on the extra credit quiz into the extra credit  assignment. If you have a lot of students you could also download your gradebook, copy and paste the extra credit quiz points into the extra credit assignment points, and then re-upload the grades.
  4. Go back to the extra credit quiz and change it to an ungraded survey; this takes it out of the gradebook.

My current hope is that a real fix for this is coming from Canvas Studio: Modern Quizzing Engine

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IMPORTANT NOTE: When copying your course (or just this extra credit quiz) the quiz will copy over as an ungraded survey so be sure to Edit it and revert it back to a graded quiz for the next time you want to use it!

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