Tips & Tricks for Online Assessments

When creating an online quiz/exam in Canvas, consider the following recommendations:

• Create question groups to randomize quiz questions
• Shuffle/randomize answers
• Limit the amount of time students have to take a quiz
• Give a practice quiz with Lockdown Browser (LDB) if it will be used for a graded quiz

In addition to assignments and quizzes/exams, best practices of online assessment include using a variety of assessment methods, adapting authentic assessment approaches, scaffolding larger assessments into smaller ones, etc. Please check for more guidelines about online quizzes, exams and other assessment strategies