@nwinkles
R/exams will create Canvas exams from R.
If you just have a LaTeX file that you created yourself, then there's not a direct way to get those into Canvas. There are a couple of things that might get you close.
If you are using New Quizzes, then \( and \) are recognized as math delimiters and you can likely copy/paste the LaTeX directly into Canvas. You will not be able to use different environments or packages that are not supported by Canvas -- no \begin{enumerate}.
That said, you probably used $ as the delimiter instead of \( and \) -- at least I always do or sometimes \[ and \]. In that case, you will need to modify it before you can get it into Canvas.
If you are using Classic / Legacy Quizzes, then LaTeX is not directly supported, but you can open up the equation editor, switch to advanced view, and copy/paste your LaTeX in there. Support is good for basic stuff, but if you require some packages (like Tikz), you won't be able to get that in there.
There is a way to encode LaTeX directly and then copy/paste it into the HTML editor for the question.
Here are a couple of previous threads in the Community that have asked similar questions.
For exams, I don't do any of that. I create my exams with LaTex and don't try to get them into Canvas quizzes. I convert them to PDFs and then allow the students to download the PDF, fill it out on paper, scan it, and submit it back to me. Then I can have anything that I can do with LaTeX (which is a lot) and am not limited by Canvas supported functionality. I create a rubric for each question that allows me to grade the quiz fairly quickly without having to mark on their submitted PDF directly (I could do this, but then students have to click on View Feedback to see it). Plus the rubric automatically calculates their score for them.
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