Create New Quizzes

Introduction

A quiz is a type of assignment in Canvas with unique features and options. This page includes activities and resources to help you create quizzes and item banks in your Canvas course using the New Quizzes tool.

On This Page:

    1. New Quizzes overview
    2. Create a quiz
    3. Add questions
    4. Create item banks
    5. Customize quiz availability
    6. Grade a quiz, align outcomes, and access reports
    7. Moderate attempts and add accommodations

Live Training

Creating New Quizzes is a 1.5 hour introductory session designed to teach you how to create and manage quizzes in your Canvas course, and provide an understanding of the updated and new functionalities. Penn State is only supporting the creation of New Quizzes from scratch at this time. This session only includes information on creating New Quizzes. We will not cover migration or item banks (question banks) in the session.

Canvas: Creating New Quizzes (Online Sessions) Links to an external site.

 

New Quizzes overview

New Quizzes is the Canvas quiz engine which will eventually replace Links to an external site. the existing Classic quiz engine. Read the following documentation for an introduction to New Quizzes, a comparison with Classic Quizzes, and a series of FAQs from Instructure:

Watch the video tutorial for a brief overview of how to use New Quizzes in your courses:

New Quizzes Overview video, 4m 29s

Create a quiz

You can create a quiz using New Quizzes from the Quizzes link in the course navigation menu. Review the following tutorials to learn how to build and edit a quiz:

You can customize the way a quiz is presented to students with a variety of settings, including question and answer shuffling, time and attempt limits, access restrictions, and more. Use the following tutorials for guidance as you select the appropriate settings for your quiz:

Add quiz questions

Guidance for designing effective assessments

Download this Designing Assessments guide (created in collaboration with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence) to help select the quiz question types most suitable for your needs:

For more in-depth information about designing effective quiz questions, visit our quiz questions mini-site:

Improve the clarity and understanding of your quiz questions and reduce grading disputes with a validity and reliability analysis. Visit the Penn State Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence to learn more and to arrange a consultation on improving your quizzes:

Email: site@psu.edu

Question types available in New Quizzes

There are several different question types to choose from when you are creating a quiz using New Quizzes. Select a question type from the following list to review a tutorial on how to use it in New Quizzes:

NOTE: Hot Spot and Ordering questions are also available, but are not recommended for use at Penn State because they are not accessible for users who rely on screen readers.

Managing quiz questions

Visit the following tutorials to learn how to make adjustments to existing questions in New Quizzes:

Create item banks

If you would like to share a series of questions to another course you teach or with another instructor who teaches the same or a similar course, an item bank may be exactly what you need. Item banks are not required for creating a quiz, but some instructors find it helpful to create question banks for a variety of reasons. They are comparable to question banks in Classic Quizzes.

The following tutorials can help you learn the steps for creating item banks in New Quizzes:

The following tutorials can help you learn the steps for managing item banks in New Quizzes:

Customize quiz availability

If you would like to limit students' access to a quiz in your course, consider the following options:

Publish/Unpublish

Publishing is a manual process, and it overrides all other availability settings. When an item is unpublished in your course, it is completely invisible to students.

Lock/Unlock

You can lock a quiz manually by selecting the option to "lock this quiz now" via the quiz settings button, or automatically by date using the availability dates on the quiz settings page. When a quiz is locked using either of these methods, students will not be able to complete the quiz or access the quiz questions, but they will still be able to see the quiz title, description, and due date via the Gradebook, calendar, and wherever the quiz appears in your course (e.g. in a course module).

Grade a quiz, align outcomes, and access reports 

While most quiz questions are graded automatically when a student submits a quiz, some question types such as essays and file uploads need to be graded manually. You can grade New Quizzes in SpeedGrader by following the process outlined in these tutorials:

If you use outcomes in your courses, you can align outcomes to quizzes and individual questions from quizzes. See the following tutorials for instructions:

New Quizzes provides access to reports analyzing quizzes, quiz items, and outcomes. Read the following tutorial to learn how to access reports:

Moderation and accommodations

Read the following tutorials to learn how to monitor student progress and customize quiz availability for individual students:

Read the following tutorial to learn how to assign a different due date for individual student(s) or course sections:

 

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