New Quizzes

Overview

There is a new quiz tool, also known as New Quizzes, with major enhancements that is now available for use at the course level. For the next several months, New Quizzes will complement the current (Classic) Quizzes tool until there is feature parity between the two. The date of when New Quizzes will become the only quiz option has not yet been determined. At this point, New Quizzes cannot be used with any proctoring software, until it can, both options will remain available.

Resources

Comparing (Classic) Quizzes and New Quizzes

See Quizzes vs. New Quizzes Feature Comparison (Links to an external site.) for a complete list of features so far.

Highlights

Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes are both classified as assignments, but there are differences:

✅ A Classic quiz is denoted by a rocket icon [1], and a New Quiz is associated with the Assignment icon [2].

quizzes icons compare

✅ You will only find Classic Quizzes [1] in the Quizzes index page [2]. Again, note the rocket icon.

classic quizzes listing

✅ Create a New Quizzes quiz from the Assignments index page [1] by clicking the + Quiz/Text button [2]

add quiz from assignments

✅ The New Quizzes interface is clearly different, although it includes a rocket icon! Because New Quizzes is an external tool, you click the Return [1] button to navigate back to your main course menu.

new quizzes menu

✅ New Quizzes Points

The ratio of points earned in the quiz multiplied by the points possible in assignment details determines the value in the Gradebook.

For example: In the five-question quiz below, questions 1-4 are worth 1 point each [1], and question 5 is worth 6 points [2]. The total points possible for the assignment is 25 [3].

Thus if a student answers questions 2, 3, and 5 correctly, then their Gradebook score would be (1 + 1 + 6)/10 x 25 or 20 points. If an instructor would like to assign 50 points to the exam, then the points in [3] would be changed to 50.

quiz points assign points

Highlights of New Quizzes features

Multiple Answers is finally all or nothing. There is no partial credit in New Quizzes
The user experience in creating questions is much improved!
When extending time to accommodate specific students using Moderate quiz, then the extension is automatically set for all quizzes that the student takes.
Item Analysis is more comprehensive and includes detailed statistics. See How do I view reports for an assessment in New Quizzes (Links to an external site.)
New Quizzes can shuffle questions globally without having to create question groups, but currently, you can only shuffle answers one question at a time — for now.
The New Quizzes instructor guide (Links to an external site.) explains how to add each of the question types below:

quiz question types

BUT there are limitations

Most will be addressed with future updates

New Quizzes quizzes cannot be shared with other courses via course import, course export, or course copy.
Item (question) banks created in Canvas Quizzes cannot be migrated to New Quizzes. However, Classic Quizzes can be export as QTI zip packages and then imported into a New Quizzes Item Bank.
Instructors cannot grant additional attempts on a per-student basis.
Instructors cannot hide quiz feedback from students.
Surveys cannot be created

Migrating a quiz

You can migrate an original quiz — one at a time, not in bulk — to New Quizzes. The original will stay intact. Follow these steps

Choose Quizzes [1] to locate the classic Quiz on the index page. it will have a rocket icon [2]
Make sure the original quiz is unpublished [3]
Click Options [4]
Choose Migrate [5]

migrate classic quiz

You will find the New Quizzes migrated quiz [1] on the Assignment page [2], not on the Quizzes page. The Assignment pages also include Classic quizzes [3]

new quizzes migrated