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myCourses as of August, 2020 now has an option to accept file uploads in the Written Response Question Type on a quiz. Please visit File Submissions in Quizzes for an overview to decide which approach may suit your needs. |
myCourses does not include a file response question type at this time. This document provides a recommended work-around to make a hybrid of a Quiz and an Assignment Folder to approximate a timed quiz with a file submission.
While there are other possible approaches, in our experience this is the most straightforward approach with the least opportunity for a student to make a mistake.
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You will be using a Quiz that grants the student access to the file with a throw-away question that is not graded. Then the student would download the file from the quiz, answer the throw-away question and submit the quiz. They would then do their work and upload the quiz file to the specified assignment folder which is not made available to them until they submit the quiz.
The Instructor can then compare the timestamp on the Quiz submission to the timestamp on the Assignment submission.
In this document we use Quiz to represent a quiz or exam, it is not meant to limit this process only to quizzes and not exams.
This document does not cover every step of creating and working with Assignments and Quizzes. You should be familiar with the basics.
Think about how the student's will be submitting their response.
Will they be responding in the same document you provided for the to download? Will they be making their own document(s) as a response? Will they be taking photos or scans of their work on paper and uploading that?
Prepare the document you will have the student download, whether this is a document they will be filling out or if it only the questions they are responding to. This must be a stand alone file that the student will download, not text typed in to myCourses.
Please keep in mind the students will be opening the file on their computer and must have the appropriate application to view the document. The students will not have the benefit of the myCourses document preview.
If you have more than one file for the students to download for this quiz it is best to put them into a Zip archive so the students only have to download from a single link.
We will post the document behind the scenes in the course so students do not have direct access to it.
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Download the template archive:
Quiz-AssignmentHybridTemplate.zip
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You must keep this as a single .zip file, not a folder of multiple files.
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You may customize the other settings on the quiz if desired, but we will not be using them in this process.
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You may customize the other settings on the assignment if desired, but we will not be using them in this process.
The setup is completed at this point. You cannot preview the full process as an instructor but you can preview the Quiz to see how a student will see it.
The vendor's documentation on previewing a quiz includes a video demonstration.
When grading it can be helpful to have the Quiz on one browser window and Assignments in another browser window side by side.
For the Quiz:
For the Assignment Folder:
You can then compare the Completed time stamp on the student's Quiz attempt to the time stamp on the student's submission to the Assignment Folder.
If you feel a student might be trying to game the system by starting the quiz, downloading the file, then waiting to submit the quiz to get more time, you can see a detailed event log on their attempt.
On the Event Log you can see a detailed log of the student's work on the quiz. The Quiz Entry log item shows when they clicked the Start Quiz button and entered the quiz. The Quiz Completion log item is the Completed timestamp. If there is a significant gap between those times there may be cause for concern.
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Using a myCourses Quiz-Assignment Hybrid for a File Submission Quiz
