[ARCHIVED] Imported Quiz and it deleted my old quiz

[genovad]

Hello! I imported a quiz from a colleague's course, made some edits to it, and renamed it (to quiz 5.4) (I had removed some content from his quiz that my class had not done yet). Now, I want to make a new quiz (5.5) with the content that I had removed to make Quiz 5.4. So I imported his quiz again, thinking I could edit it to make my new 5.5 quiz.  Instead, it completed deleted and replaced my Quiz 5.4.  

a) Is there any way to recover my old quiz (5.4)?  Students have already taken it and I don't want them to lose all their work

b) What is the proper way to do something like this?  I don't see any easy option for copying a quiz or "saving as" to make new quizzes.  

Thanks in advance!

[Steven_S]

First, recovering the student's progress:  In my experience it is difficult to completely delete content.  The student responses may show up when you view the quiz in speedgrader, and if not, canvas support should be able to offer more information about how to recover them. 

If you are a teacher in your collegue's course, you can copy the quiz using the course copy options of import course content (in the right side menu of the course settings).  Just select "copy specific content" so that you only copy the quiz.  If the quiz does not repeat a quiz name in your current course, it should not write over the existing quiz.  I had something similar happen and resolved it with a very subtle change to the quiz title in the course I was copying from (added spaces or punctuation work) before the second time I imported the quiz.

For the future, before you alter the quiz, use the three dot menu on the quizzes or assignments tab and select "duplicate."  Give the duplicate its own name, and then you should be able to alter each copy in different ways.

[CraigDuncan]

Thank you Steven S for this reply (I have had the same issue as the OP).  However, I do not see a "duplicate" option.  When I click on the three dots by the quiz I just imported, all I see is a "Copy to" option.  I can choose this, and tell it to copy it to the same course it is now in. But, it doesn't make a second copy; it just seems to replace the quiz in question with a copy of itself -- so, effectively there is no change.  Am I overlooking a "duplicate" option somewhere?

EDIT: I should have said that I am using Classic Quizzes.  Perhaps the "duplicate" function exists only for New Quizzes?