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Assume students will use resources while taking an exam and encourage them to do so. Try asking questions that probe deeper levels of knowledge and understanding, enabling students to apply, assess and evaluate concepts or facts in meaningful ways. Encourage students to share and cite where information was found and what resources were used. 

Students will likely work together when stuck or confused. Encourage working in small teams and ask students to include who they collaborate with and in what ways. 

Focus on solving problems while showing work and explanations. In many cases, students may get the same answer, but showing their work reveals meaningful differences in understanding. Sometimes there may only be a few ways to show work, so you may ask for brief explanations, or have students record a video of them talking through the process to solve a question. 

If you have short-answer or multiple-choice questions, create questions within the Canvas Question Bank, so students will receive different sets of questions (this can also be done with essays and more complex questions). Using the Canvas Quiz tool along with the question bank, allows you to present questions in a different order and add random questions, so students will each get a varied version of the same exam.

Instead of trying to ensure everyone answers a limited number of questions on their own, ask every student to create their own question with an explanation of how it would assess a certain topic or skill in a meaningful way. You can also assign students to answer each other’s questions and state whether those questions actually do assess these skills in the appropriate ways.

If your class lends itself to it, having students express their learning through essays, videos, pictures, or other personalized forms of writing/speaking/communicating means that everyone needs to create their own. You can also have students post their responses for each other and assess each other’s work through peer grading. Rubrics can help guide students as work develops, give each other feedback, and allow teaching assistants and you a consistent method of assessment.

Most of these ideas take time to grade. Try to determine what is feasible in your situation and use feedback-based or hand-grading intensive assessments sparingly. Consider how much feedback students actually need or will use. Many times feedback can be created for the whole group based on common challenges or problems, as opposed to individual responses.