Program for reviewing Canvas quizzes
Canvas Quiz Review consists of two programs to review quizzes taken in the Canvas Learning Management System.
The first script cqr_parser.py is used to process the HTML source used to display a previously-taken Canvas quiz. cqr_parser.py will process multiple HTML files searching for questions and their answers and write the questions to a CSV file called "quiz.csv."
The second script cqr.py reads the quiz.csv file to load questions, then quizzes you over those questions and calculates your score. cqr.py can also be used with files not generated by csv_parser.py as long as the quiz.csv file is in the following format:
QuestionID,Question text,|[answerOption1, answerOption2, *correctAnswerOption1, ...]|
Note: The verical pipe
|character is used as the quoting character in the CSV file. For fields containing commas, "quote" these fields with the pipe so that the field is not parsed into pieces
Currently, only multiple choice question types are supported. Several correct answers among a set of optional answers are supported.
First view one or more Canvas quizzes and save the Frame Source to various files on your computer.
Note: do not save the Page Source; save the Frame Source. The quiz results page does not contain the HTML with the quiz questions, but rather the inner frame displayed on the page.
Then, run the script as follows:
python cqr_parser.py quizHtmlFile1 [quizHtmlFile2 ...]
This will produce a quiz.csv file to be read by cqr.py.
Run as follows:
python cqr.py [options]
where [options] include the following:
--color: Run with colored output (won't work in Windows CMD)
--shuffle: Shuffle question order
The script will open quiz.csv and begin quizzing the user. For each question, enter a number for your answer. End the quiz by answering all the questions, or interrupting the script with Ctrl+C. Your results and score will be displayed.