[ARCHIVED] Quick Conversion of Google Form/Quiz questions to Canvas Quiz questions

[solicel]

Is there a way to quickly upload the questions from a Google form/quiz to the question bank for a Canvas Quiz, or do I need to retype(or copy/paste individually) thousands of questions? Would it be possible to copy/upload at least the question stems from the google spreadsheet generated by responses into a spreadsheet for a Canvas quiz? 

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @solicel 

What you ask is not possible with the existing quiz feature, but it will be/is available in Quizzes.Next  Quizzes.Next is now generally available, but not all schools have adopted it.

I am not seeing this feature listed in the current Quizzes.Next Guides, but you can learn more at https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/quizzes 

Kelley

[jacob_white]

Following up from last year, does the Quizzes.next (I think now called Quizzes New) have this feature?

[kona]

 @solicel , greetings and welcome to the Canvas Community! Probably the easiest thing to do right now is to use Respondus to get your quizzes into Canvas. We use it all the time it's great! You can try it for free for 30 days if you want to give it a whirl - Download Respondus 4.0 

Hope this helps!

Kona

[jacob_white]

Can you elaborate on how Respondus would allow me to easily move my Google Forms Quizzes to Canvas?  I really don't want to to have to copy/paste the (literally) thousands of times that would be necessary.

[sbridge]

Leann,

I'm a new user to Canvas as well and this was a HUGE question for me.  SO FAR, the easiest way I have found was to embed it into the assignment.  This DOES require you to go to the google form/spreadsheet to get the scores but depending on your purpose it is faster when in a hurry than retyping.  I'll be trying Quizzes Next soon so watching these questions for help!

[rpsimon]

What are your findings between using Google Forms for the purpose of Quizzes and Canvas' Quizzes Next?

[sbridge]

I like how the Quizzes Legacy or Quizzes.Next in Canvas directly import into the gradebook and I can set it to take the student's highest score.  The downfall I have is that I have all my weekly formative assessments in Google forms and have to retype them all into Canvas.  If time was of no issue that would be my preferred method for the reasons stated above.  Right now, I'm embedding the Google form into an assignment, creating pivot tables on the Google Form response sheet, manually selecting the highest grade and then typing grades into the Canvas Gradebook.  Its not ideal.  Additionally, I have to manually check for all late submissions.  I recently ran across this post: https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/38791-locked-down-google-forms-importing-grades-into-canvas  and would love to try #StephenGilbert instructions.  

Keep me posted on any of your own successes!  This is a huge feature need.

[Jeff76]

My uni has a quiz importer tool called getmarked that can also import from Google Forms and export it as a QTI file, which is importable to canvas. Here's their how-to article on importing from Google Forms.