Canvas New Quizzes Item Banks

New Quizzes is a new quizzing tool in Canvas that faculty may enable and use in their courses. Check out the Introduction to New Quizzes in Canvas to learn about the differences between Classic and New Quizzes.

This article covers the following topics:

Question Banks/Item Banks

Item Banks replace Question Banks from Classic Quizzes. Item banks can be used to store questions for use in other quizzes. You can use your item banks in any course where you have permission to create and edit a quiz using New Quizzes.

See How do I manage Item Banks for detailed information.

New features in Item Banks

New features in Item Banks include direct import of questions, tagging items with metadata, searching and filtering within banks, the ability to share specific banks with other users or courses, and aligning questions with learning outcomes.

Migrating Question Banks to Item Banks

You will need to export existing Question Banks before importing them into an Item Bank.

To export an existing Question Bank

  • In Course Navigation, click the "Settings" link.

  • Select "Export Course Content" from the buttons on the right side of the screen.

  • Choose "Quiz" from the Export Type menu.

  • Click the checkboxes of the quiz or quizzes you want to export.

  • Click the "Create Export" button.

  • Download the exported quiz by clicking the "New Export" link.

Create an Item Bank

  • In Course Navigation, click the "Item Banks" link.

  • Click the "+Banks" button.

  • In the Bank Name field, enter the name of the item bank.

  • Share the new item bank with the current course by clicking the "Share" checkbox.

  • To save your bank, click the "Create Bank" button.

Import your Question Bank into the Item Bank

  • Open the "Item Bank."

  • Click the Options icon, then select the Import Content option.

  • Select your downloaded Question Bank and then click Import.

See the Canvas guide on Migrating Question Banks to Item Banks (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-move-a-Classic-Quizzes-question-bank-into-a-New-Quizzes/ta-p/603028)

Adding Item Bank questions to a Quiz

Questions in an Item Bank can be added to any New Quiz during the Build process. See instructions on Adding Items from an Item Bank to a New Quiz (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-an-item-from-an-item-bank-to-a-quiz-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/589).

Randomizing Questions in New Quizzes

You can either shuffle the order of existing questions or randomly select questions from an Item Bank.

Shuffle Order of Questions: Will shuffle the question order so that students do not see quiz questions in the same order.

  • Edit your New Quiz and select "Build."

  • Click "Settings."

  • Check the box next to "Shuffle Questions."

  • Click "Return" in the upper right corner and then "Save" or "Save and Publish."

Randomize Questions from an Item Bank

This option will allow you to select several questions and randomly select different questions from the total number of questions in the Item Bank.

  • Edit your New Quiz and select Build.

  • Click "Item Banks."

  • Select the Item Bank with your questions. Click "All/Random" to select all questions and randomize them.

  • By default, the quiz includes all items from the item bank and will award one point per question. To edit these settings, click the "Edit" icon.

  • To randomly select a specific number of items, click the "Randomly select questions" option and enter the number of items to use in the Number of questions field.

  • To adjust the amount of points awarded per question, enter the number in the "Points per question" field. To save your settings, click "Done."

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