Canvas New Quizzes

Welcome to Canvas New Quizzes Page

This page serves as a dedicated resource for faculty members seeking to understand and use Canvas New Quizzes effectively. It includes a range of tools and information to help enhance your familiarity with and application of this assessment platform.

What You’ll Find Here:

  1. Tutorials: Step-by-step guides that simplify every feature of Canvas New Quizzes, making it easy for you to create, manage, and grade quizzes effectively.
  2. Migration Instructions: Seamless transition strategies for moving from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, ensuring you retain all your valuable content with minimal hassle.
  3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Answers to all your pressing queries about Canvas New Quizzes. This section helps you troubleshoot common issues and understand the nuances of the tool.
  4. Link to Upcoming Training Sessions: Stay updated with our scheduled training sessions designed to provide hands-on experience and expert guidance on utilizing Canvas New Quizzes to its fullest potential.

If you have any questions as you navigate this site, please contact the Center for Academic Innovation at 417-447-8200, or email online@otc.edu. 

For a list of upcoming New Quizzes training, visit the OTC Development Calendar.

Tutorials

Migration Instructions

New Quizzes Videos

New Quizzes Overview and Updates

Migration and New Question Types Webinar

8:10 Steps to migrate from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes

15:07 New Question Types

FAQ

How do I access New Quizzes?

To get started, you can follow the steps in this article on how to create a quiz using New Quizzes.

How is New Quizzes different from Classic Quizzes?

New Quizzes is a new assessment engine built to meet the assessment needs in your classroom today and in the future. New Quizzes include a series of feature enhancements and new item types and bring workflow improvements to what is commonly encountered in Classic Quizzes.

To see how New Quizzes compares to existing quizzes, please see our New Quizzes Feature Comparison‌.

Can I use New Quizzes along with the Classic Quizzes feature in Canvas?

Yes. Until an end-of-life date for Classic Quizzes is announced. Currently, Instructure does not have plans to discontinue Classic Quizzes, but you will receive communication well in advance should this occur.

How can I preview a New Quiz as a student?

You can preview and test quiz questions and settings from a student’s perspective by using Quiz Preview. This article explains how to open Quiz Preview, submit a quiz, and view student results as a student.

How do I give extra credit on a New Quiz?

Extra credit can be added to a quiz attempt using fudge points or through regrading. This article provides instructions for giving extra credit in a course.

Is there partial credit grading for items?

Partial credit grading functionality is supported for Matching, Fill-In-The-Blank and Multiple Answer question types.

Development for other question types is still under discussion and can be found under the theme “Build dynamic question types”. Likely additional item types for this functionality will include:

  • Ordering
  • Categorization

Similar functionality is available in the Multiple Choice question type, which allows points to be varied for individual answers.

What are Question Banks vs Question Groups? How do they appear when migrated to a New Quiz?

Question Banks are a collection of questions stored in Canvas that can be pulled into a Classic Quiz. Their behavior is similar to Item Banks in New Quizzes. Question Groups are sections in a Classic Quiz that contain a set of specific questions. Canvas can randomly choose some or all of the questions for a student as part of the quiz.

Question banks used in a classic quiz can be imported into New Quizzes and will be converted to Item Banks. The question banks need to be on a quiz in order for them to be imported.  We are still refining the process, which is now in beta. Test it out via the information noted in Beta Release Notes: New Quizzes Migration (2021-12-22)

When a classic quiz is migrated to new quizzes, here is how question banks and question groups appear:

Classic Quizzes – types of questions What it will look like in New Quizzes
Single Question – not associated with a Question Bank or Group Single Question located in the quiz
Question associated with a Question Bank Item Bank
Inline Question in Question Groups Item bank

Can a Classic Quiz migrate to New Quizzes?

Yes. While New Quizzes migration supports all question types, you should still review your quizzes for assigning them to students. For more information on quiz migration, How do I migrate a Canvas quiz to New Quizzes?

How do I create surveys in New Quizzes?

For some existing ways to get survey functionality within New Quizzes, Instructors may set a quiz to 0 points and select “do not mark this assessment towards the final grade”. Additionally, instructor’s can support survey functionality by making sure that “Student Result View” in the Settings are restricted so students do not see “answers” for the survey.

Some recommended question types for survey functionality in New Quizzes:

  • Multiple Answer
  • Essay (can also be used for short answer/response)
  • True/False
  • File Upload
  • Fill in the Blank (free response)