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Guidance on setting up online exams

Author: Laura Blundell, John Brindle, Will Moindrot, David Watson

This set of guides provides an overview of approaches that assessment teams may consider when setting up exams and other forms of summative assessment through Canvas. This covers exams conducted through the Assignment and the Quiz tool, and highlights approaches, good practices, and settings that lecturers and assessment teams may wish to consider to ensure that assessment is fair and inclusive.

With the move towards hybrid teaching and learning, and the need to convert face-to-face examinations, many departments are exploring how Canvas can be used to run exams online. The set of guides below cover methods for using the Assignment and Quiz tool to facilitate exams.

Exams through the Canvas Assignment tool

Uploading files and providing instructions to students in a secure way ahead of an assessment

Exams through Canvas quizzes

Guidance on setting up online exams by Laura Blundell, John Brindle, Will Moindrot, David Watson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.