[ARCHIVED] Polling Quiz Usage

[g_shipman]

Is there any way that I can find out what quiz types are used across the institution?  I am trying to find out which quizzes are being used.  Is there any way I can do this with an LTI call?  Any advice on how I can poll this type of data would be very useful.

[cstrikwerda]

Hello @g_shipman 

Thanks for posting in the Community.

You could look at this data in the API. This does have to be done per course however. When looking at the quizzes in the API, we would want to look at the quiz[quiz_type] 
Allowed values:practice_quiz, assignment, graded_survey, survey

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/quizzes.html#method.quizzes/quizzes_api.index

From there, you can generate a CSV from those entries and filter to see which quiz types are being used. I looked in the Community and was seeing if anyone had created anything custom to generate this data from Canvas and was not seeing anything specifically, although there could be some custom way of generating this through the API. Sometimes the Customer Success Managers can assist with generating custom reports like this. If you haven't you could reach out to them asking about this. 

Hope this helps!

[g_shipman]

Thanks for your reply.  It seems strange that an institute can't audit the use of Quizzes within Canvas, even more odd if institutes aren't asking the question.  Institutes make a decision about which LMS to use based on expectations that can be delivered, so how are they checking that they are getting what they expect?  I am not part of the team that manage our relationship with Instructure, so don't access the Customer Success Managers and those who manage it don't seem interested.  I realise that using the API this could probably be easily automated but again have no such access.

Thanks for your response.

[g_shipman]

I should probably point out that my interest in this area is driven by the introduction of New Quizzes, which have not been thought through either pedagogically or technically. How these could be seen a suitable replacement for Classic Quizzes (which are in themselves lacking) is beyond me.  As an English senior lecturer, full stack programmer and educational developer, I would say that they are fit for very little and don't stand up to exercises that were being used last century.  It gives me very little faith in Instructure if they think New Quizzes are fit for purpose.