[ARCHIVED] Updated Quizzes still display deleted questions

[msadler3]

I have a recurring problem in Canvas concerning quizzes. The context is that I am updating outdated quizzes because we migrated to a later addition of the textbook I use.  Here is what I did followed by the problem.

1. I select edit for Quiz 1 and edit the instructions and the questions. I also deleted several of the older questions. After deleting 3 questions, modifying 3 existing questions and adding 2 totally new questions I have modified the Quiz from 8 questions to 6 questions.
2. I save it and publish it.
3. Next, I copy the quiz to the other 5 courses using the same textbook.

Problem description.

As soon as a student opens the quiz in one of the 5 courses that got the "Copy to course" version the deleted questions are present along with any edited and new questions. The latest time this happened it changed the revised quiz of 26 possible points to 36 possible points.

The originally edited version still looks fine it is only the ones I copied over that have problems.

Can anyone help me figure out what went wrong so I can prevent this from happening again?

[igustafson · Accepted solution]

Thank you for this reply. in my experience, this can happen if the quiz wasn't saved with the new updated information and then copied over when the. It sounds like what's happening is the questions are added but the point values are not updated to reflect it in each question.

[lien_sas]

Hi, 

In short, duplicated your edited version before copying it to other courses.

We have the same issue and contacted Canvas support. They say it's a 'feature' and not a bug, and suggested we first duplicate the edited quiz in the mother course before making a new copy to a child course. However, this behaviour isn't logically to be expected. Moreover, if you edit the title of the quiz in the mother course, then the edited name is copied in the child course even if the content is not. I feel like this doesn't make much sense, and it's confusing because it looks like you now have the new version in your child course. Only when you open and check -or worse, when students attempt and submit the quiz- do you notice that it is still the old version. 
Canvas Support informed us that there isn't currently an ETA for an update on this issue... This was their reply: 

"Please note, that currently New Quizzes assignments can only be migrated once to any course and every additional import will create a duplicate of the first version, regardless of any changes made to the original quiz.
To prevent this issue in the future, we recommend only copying New Quizzes assignments once the are completed. If you are required to make modifications to a quiz, that has been copied to other courses, you either want to manually change the copied versions or create a duplicate of the updated version and import/copy that version instead.

[...]

Our engineering team is constantly working on improvements for the New Quizzes tool, however we are unable to provide you with an ETA, when this limitation will be removed.
The Product and Engineering department determines the priority of all issues and feature improvements and addresses them, as quickly as possible, based off all inquiries and items, that they are developing/working on."

Yes, the workaround works, but this behaviour is confusing and copying the edits should be a basic feature.