Quizzes in Canvas

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 type and awards points based on students' responses.
• A practice quiz is a learning tool to see how well users understand the 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. (For more information, see: What options can I set in a quiz?)
• The Questions tab is where the questions themselves are entered. (For more information, see: How do I create a quiz with individual questions?)

Managing Question Banks

A Question Bank is a collection of questions outside of a quiz. Linking to Question Banks can help randomize a quiz. It also allows quizzes using the same Question Bank to be updated when a question is changed within the bank. This tool is very helpful for creating smaller topic-specific quizzes and then putting them together into a cumulative assessment.

For more information:

• How do I create a question bank in a course?
• Randomizing quiz questions:
  • Classic Quizzes: How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
  • New Quizzes: How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
• Moving questions between question banks:
  • Classic Quizzes: How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another?
  • Classic Quizzes: How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another?
  • New Quizzes: How do I move or copy a question from one item bank to another in New Quizzes?

Migrating from Classic to New Quizzes

Classic Quizzes is the quiz tool that has been available since our transition to Canvas. Instructure is phasing out the tool, with no set end-of-life date at this time. New Quizzes is a modern quizzing engine with more question types and quiz-setting functionality.

ASU allows migrating quizzes from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. Any question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes.

For more information:

• How do I migrate a Canvas quiz to New Quizzes?
• How do I move a Classic Quizzes question bank into a New Quizzes item bank?

Administering Quizzes

Quiz Moderating

Once a quiz is published, you can moderate it. Moderating a quiz lets you monitor students' progress as they take it. It is also where you enter accommodations (such as extra time or multiple attempts) for students who need them.

For more information:

• Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page?

Proctoring Tools

ASU offers instructors a variety of tools to help proctor exams and assessments administered through Canvas Quizzes. 

• Honorlock On-Demand Remote Proctoring Overview
• LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor Overview

Additional Resources

• Canvas Basics

See more on Quizzes:

• Extra attempts:
  • Classic Quizzes: Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
  • New Quizzes: How do I moderate a student's quiz attempt in New Quizzes?
• Extra time:
  • Classic Quizzes: Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
  • New Quizzes: How do I moderate a student's quiz attempt in New Quizzes?
• Formula questions:
  • Classic Quizzes: How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question?
  • New Quizzes: How do I create a Formula question in New Quizzes?
  • Canvas Formula Quiz Question Helper Functions
• Making changes to published quizzes:
  • Classic Quizzes: Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?