How to Set Up and Grade Extra Credit on a Canvas Quiz
The way you'll grant extra credit on a Canvas quiz is by manually awarding additional points to the student's quiz after they've taken it, either by adding their extra credit points in SpeedGrader or by adding the cumulative extra points to their overall score.
Creating Optional Extra Credit Questions
If your extra credit points come from answering additional optional questions, you'll need to create the new question(s) and set them to be worth zero points. If the extra credit results from extra points granted on a normal, mandatory quiz question, you can skip this section.
1. Click +New Question and create the extra credit question in your quiz just like you would for your regular questions.
- Students won't see the question titles (the upper-left box in the question editor), so it would be in their best interest to clearly indicate that a question is optional and for extra credit. You can include this in the question text itself or by adding a Text (no entry) "question" type at the start of your extra credit section to indicate that the remaining questions are for extra credit.
2. Change the point value to say 0 points (it will be worth 1 point by default).
- This is necessary so that students don't get docked points for answering the extra credit question incorrectly or skipping it entirely.
3. Repeat Steps 1 and 2 until you have entered all of your extra credit questions. Remember to click Save at the bottom of the quiz editor page to save your updates.
Grading the Questions
2. Scroll down to the extra credit question to check the student's answer. Change the score accordingly for the extra credit question(s) to the number of points you wish to award the student on that question. The question will automatically list zero points earned regardless of if the student answered correctly, incorrectly, or not at all.
3. Click Update Scores at the bottom of the page when you have finished updating their extra credit question scores.
- Questions with definitive answers (multiple choice, true/false, matching, etc.) will be marked correct or incorrect like usual. If they answered correctly, replace the 0 with the number of extra credit points you would like to award them on that question.
- Judgment questions (essay and short answer) will be labeled for manual reviewing just like usual, so you'll need to manually grade these regardless since Canvas won't post their quiz scores until you've manually graded them.
Alternatively, you can add a student's cumulative extra credit points to their quiz score by manually adjusting the quiz score on this page, using the Fudge Points box at the bottom of the page in SpeedGrader, or by manually adjusting their score in the course's Grades page. However, keep in mind that this means the extra credit points won't be associated with any specific question(s), so the student won't be able to tell the specific question(s) that awarded them their extra credit.
