Introduction to New Quizzes in Canvas

Canvas has two quizzing tools available: Classic Quizzes (labeled Quizzes) enabled in all courses by default, and New Quizzes, which faculty may enable and use in their courses. Eventually, Canvas will retire Classic Quizzes and enforce the usage of New Quizzes, but at this time, there is no deadline for that change. At this time, faculty may choose to:

  1. Continue with Classic Quizzes
  2. Enable New Quizzes and migrate select or all Classic Quizzes, or choose to create new quizzes in New Quizzes. You can create New Quizzes to try them out and also have Classic Quizzes in your class.

New Quizzes includes significant changes in the user interface for building quizzes and features. The student experience of taking a New Quiz is the same as in Classic Quizzes. Examine the differences below before deciding which quiz tool to use. Features in New Quizzes are continually being updated to enable both feature parity with Classic Quizzes and enable new features. The New Quizzes Hubincludes product updates, a roadmap and comprehensive guides on using New Quizzes.

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Major differences between Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes

  • A new Build interface that includes quiz settings, adding questions, moderating quizzes, and reporting and analytics.
  • Existing quizzes must be migrated to New Quizzes.
  • Question banks are renamed Item Banks and must be migrated to New Quizzes

Surveys and Practice Quiz types no longer exist in New Quizzes

  • To replace survey functionality, consider embedding a Google Form (link to KB) or link to a Qualtrics survey.
  • To replace practice quizzes, create a quiz worth zero points and check the box does not count toward final grade
    Classic Quizzes practice quizzes are migrated to New Quizzes with zero-point quiz settings enabled by default.

New features include

  • The ability to print quizzes and answer keys
  • The ability to set up quiz accommodations for one student for all quizzes
  • The ability to copy and share Item banks between courses and users
  • The ability to shuffle the order of questions within a quiz
  • New question types
    • Hot spots
    • Ordering
    • Categorization
    • Stimulus Content (students answer multiple questions related to a single block of content)
  • Build on Last Attempt Instructors can allow students to build on their last attempt of a quiz by reattempting incorrectly answered questions. In New Quiz Settings, instructors select Allow multiple attempts and then select the Enable build on last attempt checkbox.
    When the Build on last attempt feature is enabled, students can only view questions marked with incorrect answers. All other questions are hidden.

A complete feature list comparison is available at Canvas New Quizzes Feature Comparison.

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