Canvas New Quizzes
New Quizzes is Canvas's assessment engine and replaces Classic Quizzes. New Quizzes offers additional question types, improved moderation and accommodation tools, enhanced feedback options and Item Banks for managing question collections.
Key differences from Classic Quizzes
Unlike Classic Quizzes, selecting a New Quiz opens an assignment summary page. To access quiz questions, settings, moderation tools and reports, select Build.
Other key differences include:
- additional question types including Categorisation, Hot Spot, Ordering and Stimulus questions
- Item Banks replacing Question Banks
- improved moderation and student accommodation options
- greater control over when grades, feedback and correct answers become visible to students
- enhanced options for randomisation and question shuffling
- the ability to share and reuse Item Banks across multiple modules
Unlike Classic Quizzes, opening a New Quiz will initially display an assignment summary page. To access quiz questions, settings, moderation tools and reports, select Build.
Faq Items
Getting Started
Item Banks
Migrating Existing Quizzes
Moderations and Accommodations
Quiz guides and further support
Further details on setting up and managing New Quizzes can be found in the following Instructure guidance pages:
- Creating a New Quiz
- Creating and Managing Item Banks
- Copying a quiz to another course
- Migrating Classic Quizzes
- Managing Quiz settings
- Moderation and Accommodations
- Grading and Reviewing Submissions
If you require support with New Quizzes or would like advice on using online assessment within your teaching, please contact the Teaching and Learning Academy via LJMU Assist.
