[ARCHIVED] Classic Quiz Banks (and quizzes) migrating to New Quizzes

[CCProf1234]

To the Canvas New Quizzes Product Team:

Can you provide an update to the Canvas community specifically addressing whether Classic Quiz Banks (and the quizzes built using those banks) will seamlessly migrate into New Quizzes? Will the Classic Quizzes (built using banks) retain the links back to the associated bank?

In my class, I have 645 Classic Quiz Banks from which several quizzes and exams are built. Collectively, my Classic Quiz Banks hold an estimated ~2500 questions. The thought of needing to manually transfer each bank or manually rebuild banks or quizzes within New Quizzes is overwhelming.

I'm sure I am not alone within the Canvas community with similar concerns. Can you provide assurance the migration of quiz banks from Classic to New Quizzes will occur seamlessly and not require manual intervention?

[isabel_anievas]

Thanks for bringing this issue up. Many of us are similarly overwhelmed. In my case, I am concerned about having to manually transfer or redo most of the media I have incorporated in my Classic Quizzes Instructions and questions either via Canvas Studio or via small recordings (created directly in Canvas)

I have yet to figure out an easy and effective way to migrate my current content without losing my media content. 

I am reluctant to continue to create new content in Classic Quizzes but I find that, as a language instructor,  New Quizzes do not currently meet my needs (I teach Spanish).

So, I honestly do not know what to do. Should I put all my energy in creating new and pedagogically inferior quizzes in New Quizzes now, or should I wait with the hope that New Quizzes will eventually come equipped with a full editor (one that hopefully allows us to also embed Canvas Studio videos with their full functionality: comments, on screen quizzes, captions, etc.)?

If I decide to wait, with the hope of eventually getting a full editor and an easier way to migrate my quizzes, and neither of those things materialize before we transition to New Quizzes, what will happen to my current Classic Quizzes after the transition? will we be forced to transition to New Quizzes in the summer of 2022? 

I would like to see more clarification on this. What is a realistic timetable regarding the transition to New Quizzes? I keep on hearing that the rollout may be postponed again? Some of us really need to know.  What additional features can we expect to see in New Quizzes? What will happen to Classic Quizzes after the transition?. Most of us have a limited amount of time and energy and we want to dedicate it to our students. I personally enjoy updating my content in ways that can better engage my students. But I am frustrated and overwhelmed by the prospect of spending hundreds of hours "updating" my current Classic quizzes to an inferior platform with more limited functionality. 

[SuSorensen]

Hi! The Product team communicates in the Product Blog. I think you can find many of these answers in the post Possibilities for User Experience of Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes Migration

I also follow/respond to questions there as well as in the Q&A post, not always in the general user group.

[kroeninm]

I feel reassured in reading some of the blogs that work is being done for a smooth migration of banks, but I'd love to see details as we move forward on bank features that will be added before the transition.  I see a hint that there may be course level banks as a default instead of user level banks for example as initially rolled out at some point but details would be helpful to see in a timeline.

The banks as they are currently are seem like they may be overwhelming for faculty (and staff) to manage across multiple types / formats of courses that use different variations of the same banks and will be difficult to manage across courses in which some content and banks are shared and some are customized.  I only have access to 40 or so banks in my testing and I'm overwhelmed and can't determine which banks go with which courses and which I should share and which I shouldn't and which I have customized for one section but not another, etc.  

I would say of the top 3 issues, banks are my #1 concern 😄  The documentation and information is a good start for where we are at but more granular feature details will be useful as we get closer to the end of the year.

Melanie