About New Quizzes
New Quizzes Links to an external site. is Canvas's new assessment engine that integrates with the LMS as an LTI tool, and it will eventually replace the "Classic Quizzes" functionality that currently exists in Canvas.
Instructors can use New Quizzes to create assessments using a variety of questions types. Assessments display as assignments in the Assignments page and can easily be duplicated, copied to other courses, and shared with other instructors. Students can take an assessment in New Quizzes directly from their Canvas course, including through Respondus LockDown Browser Links to an external site..
New Quizzes Overview
Watch the following video titled Instructor: New Quizzes Overview (4:29) to learn how instructors can create and manage assessments using New Quizzes in a Canvas course. The second video titled Student: New Quizzes Overview (2:42) is optional and will demonstrate how students can access and take an assessment in New Quizzes, including how to view their assessment results.
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Key Features
A few key features for New Quizzes include:
- New Question Types: Categorization, Hot Spot, Ordering, and Stimulus. Essay, Fill in the Blank, and Multiple Choice question types have also received enhancements.
- Item Banks (formerly Question Banks) are now linked to your account so they are available from any Canvas course that you teach, and you can share them with colleagues.
- Migrating a Classic Quiz to New Quizzes allows instructors to re-use an existing assessment in your Canvas course by moving it to the New Quizzes assessment engine. Question banks used in Classic Quizzes can also be migrated to New Quizzes.
- Print a quiz answer key or a blank quiz with no answers. Quizzes can also be saved to your computer as a PDF file.
- Add extended time for one or all quizzes in a course to meet an individual student accommodation.
- Enable a "Waiting Period" on any re-attempts for an assessment after a set amount of time has passed from the student's most recent attempt.