Quizzes
Canvas Basics
Quizzes in Canvas are assignments that can be used to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension of course material.
Creating Quizzes
Canvas has four different types of quizzes:
- A graded quiz is the most common quiz and rewards students with points based on their quiz responses.
- A practice quiz is a learning tool to see how well users understand course material without providing a grade.
- A graded survey rewards students with points for completing a survey but grading is not based on right or wrong answers.
- An ungraded survey obtains opinions or other information without providing a grade.
To create your Quiz, go to the Quizzes Index Page (Quizzes in the Course Navigation menu), and click +Quiz. The quiz edit screen has two tabs:
- The Details tab is where the options for the quiz as a whole are set. Learn more about quiz options and details.
- The Questions tab is where the questions themselves are entered. Learn more about quiz question setup.
Managing Question Banks
A Question Bank is a collection of questions outside of a quiz. Linking to Question Banks can help to create randomization in a quiz. It also allows quizzes working from the same Question Bank to all be updated when a question is changed within the bank. This tool is very helpful when creating smaller topic-specific quizzes and then putting together a cumulative assessment. Learn how to create a question bank.
Migrating from Classic to New Quizzes
Classic Quizzes is the quiz tool that has been available since our transition to Canvas. The tool is being phased out by Instructure with no set end-of-life date at this point. New Quizzes is a modern quizzing engine with more question types and quiz-setting functionality.
ASU allows for the migration of quizzes from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. Any question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes. Learn how to migrate a Canvas Quiz to New Quizzes.
Administering Quizzes
Quiz Moderating
Once a quiz is published, you can moderate it. Moderating a quiz allows you to monitor student progress in taking the quiz. It is also where you enter accommodations (such as extra time or multiple attempts) for students who need them. See how to moderate Canvas Quizzes.
Proctoring Tools
ASU offers instructors a variety of tools to help proctor exams and assessments administered through Canvas Quizzes.