[ARCHIVED] I really want to embed a quiz question on a page (and have done for 6 years).

[r_nickalls]

Hi. I'd like to embed a simple question onto a page and record students answer.  This feature has long been promised - has it finally been delivered with New Quizzes?  I have just arranged to have New Quizzes enabled by my institution but I can't see a way of embedding a question on a Canvas page. Or have I missed something?

[ericwerth]

Hi  @r_nickalls   You can of course link to a quiz within a page of Canvas, but I do not know of any way with New Quizzes that you can make the questions themselves appear on a page directly and have the student response be recorded.  Being said, New Quizzes is still under development.  Instructure has stated that their first priority is to bring the new quiz system up to parity with the old (see chart here New Quizzes Feature Comparison) but once parity is achieved I am sure that the developers will turn their attention to some of those new features that have been disucssed.

I hope this helps! 

[AmirahAlNufily]

Has this feature being developed yet? we would really appreciate if we could have the quiz embedded in the page. 

Cheers,

[Chris_Hofer]

@AmirahAlNufily ...

This can be accomplished in a New Quiz.  The layout/design doesn't look exactly like a content page since it's going to be using the New Quizzes interface, but it is possible to do this.  So, for example, you could have a reading assignment for your students on part of the screen, and then on the other side of the screen, you could have one or more questions about that reading.  This Guide will show you exactly how this can be created and what the end result looks like:

How do I insert stimulus content in New Quizzes? - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Please let Community members know if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

[AmirahAlNufily]

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for the instructions and your prompt response. 

what we would like to do is to add a buttom at the end of the page saying, do you acknowledge you have completed reading the unit? then admin can check the progress. 

The mark as done option is pretty much what we want but it doesn't show good analytics as we need to click on individuals to check their progress. Is there anyway to achieve this but viewing the full students progress in a grid table (similar to the one under the mark tab)?

[Chris_Hofer]

@AmirahAlNufily ...

I checked to see if any other Canvas Coaches had ideas for you.  One replied where you could set up an assignment with a text box submission, and students would just have to type in "agree" or whatever you wanted them to respond with.  He did acknowledge it's not quite what you're looking for, but it might be a workable solution for your needs.

[AmirahAlNufily]

Hi Chris,

Yes, this is what we are doing at this moment, directing students to complete the acknowledgment which takes them to the assessment page. We were hopping if they could click on a button in within the page which we can track later on in a big picture.

Do you think this is something will be implemented in the future?

Thank you very much again for your help Chris. 

[Chris_Hofer]

@AmirahAlNufily ...

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Do you think this is something will be implemented in the future?

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I do not know.  The best I can direct you to is the Canvas Roadmap so that you can see what Instructure is working on for the foreseeable future:

Canvas Product Roadmap - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

If you wanted to see this implemented in the Community, you could submit this as an Idea for consideration following the information in these Guides (look at the links under "Ideas and Themes"):

Community - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Hope this helps!

[esimon1]

I also wish we had this very simple feature available, I am looking at the new quiz tool and I don't see it. Using H5P is your best bet. 

[DrFak]

My uni is just switching from Sakai to Canvas. I like Canvas but this was something easy to do in Sakai. I wish this would be implemented in Canvas! It would be great to embed a few questions throughout assigned content.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @DrFak ...

If you take a look at my posting (above) from July 11, 2023, you'll see that this is possible with the New Quizzes interface.

Check with your school's Canvas administrator or someone from their Online Learning / eLearning / Distance Learning department.  They may not yet have enabled the New Quizzes interface because it sounds like you are all pretty new to Canvas.  If New Quizzes is not enabled, you might want to ask what their plans are to enable New Quizzes in your Canvas interface.  I found this page on Duke's website that might be of help to you:

Homepage | Canvas (duke.edu)

At the very bottom of this page, there's an e-mail address listed for help with Canvas which seems to go to Duke Learning Innovation in collaboration with the Office of Information Technology.

Hopefully this will be of some help to you.  Good luck!

[DrFak]

Thanks for your help! Yes, we have New Quizzes and I'm using it, but I want to embed a few questions throughout basically a textbook chapter of content, not embed a textbook chapter of content into a quiz. Might seem trivial but sounds like other people do, too, and sure seems simple enough. Thanks!

[AmyCunningham]

I am also wanting to do this for an adult learning course. As DrFak suggested, it would be nice to be able to just drop in a single question at the bottom of a page. I hope this feature is added for the 24-25 school year.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @AmyCunningham ...

As I had suggested above in my response from July 11, 2023, you could accomplish this via New Quizzes ... if your Canvas admins have made this available to you.  You could use a stimulus question and add the reading material and the question to it.  See How do I insert stimulus content in New Quizzes? - Instructure Community - 573 (canvaslms.com) for more details.