Extra Credit for Individual Quiz Questions

Create the quiz

Make sure to assign each question with the necessary amount of points.

Have your students take the exam

In the exam, click Edit

Navigate to the Questions tab

Locate the question you would like to make extra credit and click edit

For the pencil icon to appear, you have to hover over the question with your mouse.

Change the point value of the extra credit question(s) to 0

This will reduce the number of points possible on the exam.

Scroll down and click Update Question

Scroll to the bottom and click Save

After you change the values of the questions to 0 points and save the quiz, Canvas will require that you re-grade the quiz. At this point you could go to the SpeedGrader and click the Update Score button for every student, but we have found that the method described below is much quicker, especially for large classes.

Navigate to Grades

Export the gradebook

1. Expand the Export dropdown
2. Select Export Entire Gradebook

Locate the quiz in the gradebook and click the 3 dots next to the name of the quiz and select Hide Grades

Click Hide

This will prevent students from receiving any notifications while you adjust the scores.

Click the 3 dots next to the name of the quiz again and select Set Default Grade

1. Set the grade to 0
2. Check the Overwrite already-entered grades box
3. Click Set Default Grade

This will make make Canvas recognize the scores as "re-graded" when you re-import the scores from the .csv file you download earlier.

Import the gradebook that you exported in step 5

1. Click Import.
2. Click Choose File.
3. Select the .csv file from your computer downloads (or wherever you saved it) and click Open.
4. Click the Upload Data button.
5. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page after you see the confirmation page that shows the quiz column scores changing from 0 to the original score. 

Click the 3 dots next to the name of the quiz, select Post Grades, then click Post