As TAs you have the same features available to you as the professor, your access will just end when the semester closes, so please peruse the Instructor help pages for Creating a New Assignment/Question Search/Student Late Submit queries (and many more). The Quest team is here to help support you with any Quest related concerns, set up, or familiarity tutorials–feel free to send us a note at questhelp@austin.utexas.edu, call 512.232.1076, or just drop by PMA (RLM) 15.320G.
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Communicating with Students: you can post class announcements, or if you need to just let a few students know something, you can grab their email off the roster (on the left side bar). This could take a few steps out using Canvas as the communication run around.
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(Especially in large classes) Sorting the bubblesheet scantrons may be useful should there be need to find a particular student's response (usually to check version number, eid, or misscans, where more than one bubble per question row is marked). Having a procedure where students turn in the bubblesheets so they're all oriented the same way (name/version face up, clipped corner in upper right hand) may save you some time and papercuts later.
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How do I create a question bank? In editor, you can use an existing question to make a copy to your personal bank by clicking the 'Use an existing question as a template' option and entering in the id number of the question you want. Leta (512.232.1076, PMA 15.320G) is happy to meet with anyone wanting initial training on how to make questions.
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